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Often appears with: fate, destiny, and necessity · the nature and attributes of God · the city and urban life · reason and the intellect · race prejudice · positive and negative · poetic theology · pleasure, pain, and the good life · natural beauty · metaphysics · love key to riddles · logic, method, and demonstration
Usually: argument (1) · reflection (1) · verse (1) · confronting death (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1) · wonder (1)
“Life shrinks from Death in woe and fear, Though Death ends well Life’s bitter need: So shrinks the heart when Love draws near, As though ’twere Death in very deed: For wheresoever Love finds room, There Self, the sullen tyrant, dies. So let him perish in the gloom,— Thou to the dawn of freedom rise.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind · precept
Du Bois argues that the world’s beauty and its horrors must be held together, then describes sea-and-sky landscapes as evidence of enduring natural beauty while contrasting them with race prejudice.
fancy too untrue. Of one world-beauty alone may we at once be brutally frank and that is the glory of physical nature; this, though the last of beauties, is divine! And so, too, there are depths of human degradation which it is not fair for us to probe. With all their horrible prevalence, we cannot call them natural. But may we not compare the least of the world's beauty with the least of its ugliness--not murder, s…
Engels criticizes metaphysical reasoning (“yea, yea; nay, nay”) as unable to handle interrelations, using examples about life and death to show natural processes blur fixed oppositions.
and Locke, this point of view has been carried over from science into philosophy, and has constituted the specially narrow view of the last century, the metaphysical mode of thought. For the metaphysician, things and their pictures in the minds, concepts, are separate entities, one following the other without any regard to each other, stable, rigid, eternally fixed objects of investigation. The metaphysician thinks …
It continues the poem material by listing additional verses (I’ll tell thee how..., Life shrinks from Death..., Thou to the dawn of freedom rise) that emphasize love, unity, and liberation.
173 [The citation given by Hegel from Schlegel’s translation is here replaced by the version (in one or two points different) in the *Sacred Books of the East*, vol. viii.] 174 In order to give a clearer impression of it, I cannot refrain from quoting a few passages, which may at the same time give some indication of the marvellous skill of Rückert, from whom they are taken, as a translator. [For R…