[MD] Arlo

[John Carl]

J-A,

This, my friend, was absolutely fascinating.



The split in attitude is quite connected to Time. Romantics cling to the
> status of the actual Now, the eternal change between before and later.
> Classics prefer to follow the eternal lines and stick to patterns which are
> unchanged during a long period of change. Patterns pointing to Newton,
> Plato and beyond ancient history.
>
>

Jc:  Relating them to time, is a move that never occured to me before, but
that sounds right on.  Let me sit with that a moment....

I think Classicism also looks forward, in a sense.  Attempting to carry
patterns forward, and perpetuate them where Rom's only see the now, what
looks good in the moment.  I will have to play with this, but you've opened
up some thought-pathways, J-A.



> The interesting point here is this:
> How could Romantic and Classical attitudes meet if both carrier doesn't
> have the mental mirror, the conscious distance to themselves, if they don't
> understand that there is such a difference between them?
>
> Jan-Anders
>
>
That's right.  self-knowing comes from differentiation.  If there were only
kind of thinking, could thinking know itself at all?

JohnC