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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
‘I thou’
In Essay on Faith, Coleridge presented an examination of the ‘I thou’ relationship that was an advance on the Fichtean concept of summoning, and more sophisticated than anything Martin Buber would later offer.
This is a deep meditation, though the position is capable of the strictest proof—namely, that there can be no I without a Thou, and that a Thou is only possible by an equation in which I is taken as equal to Thou, and yet not the same... but the equation of Thou with I, by means of a free act, negativing the sameness in order to establish the equality, is the definition of conscience.
Conscience has the same etymological root as consciousness, but with the added element of an inner morality. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses. One could have consciousness of responding to sensory stimuli, but the conscience trumps both consciousness and sense perception, knowing that the actions resulting from these two latter can be judged to be right or wrong.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Mythology must be "what Eternally Exists"
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Love and creativity
The real and only meaningful opposition is between those whose banners bear the symbols of love and creativity and those devoid of love, life and humanity who would have us return to the One, the ‘amorphous state of pre-Eros, pre-Love and pre-Being’.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
As nominal head of the English government, William III of Orange fulfilled the longstanding aspiration of the invaders and collaborationists by chartering the Bank of England in 1694. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 3
Further additions to the project, starting with the Buckingham to Newport Pagnell leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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