So delightfully profound! "It is not long before it occurs to one that political activity is a central consequence of the division in us between the particular and the universal. Politics is the intermediate activity, the middle ground, between mere nature and the wholly divine, exemplary of the human being who is the intersection of the body and the intellect, rooted to a time and place as a bodily being, but soaring by will and intellect far beyond those confines. This is a central theme of all Western reflection, shared by Homer’s Odysseus and Aristotle’s natural political man. We are both nature and artifice, both natural matter to be shaped and directed and, at least partially, able to be our own shapers and guides. We are a mystery to ourselves, and thus an endless source of wonder, seeking to reconcile what divides us within ourselves. We are neither simply identified with nature nor able to operate in successful defiance of nature." theimaginativeconservative.org/homer-political-philosoph/#.UcSHyOAo7cs
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:15:48 +0000
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