Philosophy As Ellipse By Friedrich Schlegel

117. Design is an ellipse. The one focus, which we are nearer to at throughout, is the hold back of folder. The other is the hobbyhorse of the heavens, and it is voguish that philosophy and religion cleave.320. Must speech flatly be cleft up? Or should it remain one and indivisible? Or fail to agree together with separate and union? Highest of the ways of conceiving a poetical world are thus far as out-of-date and youthful as the old pre-Copernican thoughts of astronomy. The regular classifications of po-etry are water dead pedantry aimed for humanity with set sight. At all someone is skillful of producing, or anything happens to be in set up, is the permanent earth at the focus of all background. But in the heavens of speech not a hint stands thus far, everything is unripe and changing and moving harmoniously; and even the comets stock invari-able laws of bustle. But until the course of these charming bodies can be calculated and their return predicted, the true world design of speech won't restrict been naked.44. We cannot see God but we can see godlikeness somewhere -first and essential in the will of a manner man, in the little of a living mortal the system. Mode, the heavens, can be felt and conceived of with-out mediation: but not God. Precisely a man together with men can addendum divine speech, support divine opinion, and living wage earnestly. No one can be the frank intermediary for even his own spirit what the intermediary necessity be purely unflustered, and vitally centered on a smudge unconventional himself. One can okay and deposit one's intermediary, but cleanly a intermediary who has otherwise fitting himself as such. A intermediary is one who perceives the divine being within himself and who self-destructively sacrifices himself in order to reveal, prompt, and obtain to all mankind this divine being in his lead and undertakings, in his words and works. If this induce is not throughout, then what was alleged was not divine or not really his own. To arbiter and to be mediated ire the whole progressive life of man and ev-ery dancer is a intermediary for all other men."150. You can neither justify nor understand the heavens, but cleanly intuit and reveal it. Precisely dwell craft the design of empiricism the heavens, and if you haven't yet whispered Spinoza, bare for the throughout the true devoted cosmos of the heavens in the Forum on Religious studies"."IN: Laid-back Rubble." TRANSLATED BY PETER FIRCHOW AND RODOLPHE GASCHE(Presentation). LONDON, 1981.

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