Hallowed Hollowness II
“Gentlemen! We find ourselves in a crucial epoch. We, so called ‘civilized’ men of intellect, are only now emerging from a primitive phase in which ...
Month: May 2014
On Practical Reasoning
From Insouciance in Deliberation (1899): To really deliberate, that is, to vividly imagine oneself persisting into one future, adjusting that mysterious stew o...
Hallowed Hollowness
From “Hallowed Hollowness: On Machines and Modernity”: “The modern man of science wonders to himself, “If I were to arrange things thus-...
Maria von Klemperer II
The union (he would have hated that word, of course) between Adalbert and Maria was short-lived because Maria herself was short-lived: she intentionally overdo...
Meingast’s Routine
I found an excerpt written by Alexandr (Shurik) Leonidovich Katz describing Meingast’s daily life in Graz: “Teaching obligations claimed two to thr...
On the Aim of Reason
“Knowledge, for Reason, is but a passing stage. Once, through its effortful striving, it has reached knowledge of the world entire, Reason coagulates into...
Meingast’s poem for children
Exciting news, all! I’ve located a manuscript of Meingast’s 1903 poem for children, “Entartete Entenarten.” It’s in a library in L...
Maria von Klemperer
He courted her in the cruelly hot summer of 1867 when he was stationed outside Linz. From a youthful diary entry: “She wanted to be expressive, yes, but h...