Some essential part of stories lies in their telling. Here is a story:<\/p>\n
Kant has the idea of the sublime, whereby the aesthetic is significantly determined by its ability to transcend (and hence terrify) our senses. For instance the magnitude of a mountain or a storm – both threaten our sense of self and perception by impressing upon us fact that there is always more, forcing us to teeter closer to the edge of the infinite. Where Kant’s imagination is limited is most obvious in considerations of the precise and the minutia. Kant could gaze at the starry heavens above him in wonder and with a sense of humility that dwindles the self into an\u00a0insignificant\u00a0point, but he was unable to do the same to the ever-fractionating nature of matter itself. There is a happy mirroring between the mythical aims of man to build a tower to smash into the heavens, and our own era’s obsession with foundries purposed with the smashing of matter itself. Today’s Colloseus, leaning into Einstein’s limit, stealing atoms from the void, dissolving matter into substance, forms a modern metaphor to the story of primordial creation and destruction. The intertwining of magnetic coils and X-rays form lovers’ limbs.<\/p>\n
Have I lost you yet between the drifting imagery?<\/p>\n
The previous point continues to prove that Lucretius[I]<\/sup><\/a> is precipient in seeing the sublime and the aesthetic in the atomic, and consequentially the applicability of his ethos into the post-modern era by appropriating it into a materialist Zen.<\/p>\n De Rerum Natura.<\/em>[I]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n [I]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0“Titus Lucretius<\/strong> Carus\u00a0(\/<\/em>\u02c8ta\u026at\u0259s\u00a0 lju\u02d0\u02c8kri\u02d0\u0283\u0259s\/;\u00a0c.\u00a015 October 99 BC\u00a0\u2013 c. 55 BC) was a\u00a0Roman\u00a0poet\u00a0and\u00a0philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem\u00a0De rerum natura<\/strong>, a\u00a0didactic\u00a0work about the tenets and philosophy of\u00a0Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as\u00a0On the Nature of Things<\/strong>. Lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the\u00a0three-age system\u00a0which was formalised from 1834 by\u00a0C. J. Thomsen”. For further details see\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucretius<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some essential part of stories lies in their telling. Here is a story: Kant has the idea of the sublime, whereby the aesthetic is significantly determined by its ability to transcend (and hence terrify) our senses. For instance the magnitude of a mountain or a storm – both threaten our sense of self and perception […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,303,198,302,242,256,317,20],"tags":[26,244],"metadata":[171],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-ancientgreek","category-book-review","category-classicalphilosophers","category-evernote-entries","category-kant","category-lucretius","category-philosophy","tag-kant","tag-lucretius","metadata-editors-footnotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2425,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/02\/06\/philosophy-readings-through-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":2435,"position":0},"title":"Philosophy readings through time","author":"Pala","date":"February 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: In February 2013, Shai adds\u00a0Evernote\u00a0to his suite of repositories. This is an application designed specifically for note-taking, organising, task lists and archiving. This proves to be the ideal tool for him to better control his ever-growing research notes, stored primarily up to this point, in handwritten notebooks and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2437,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/02\/28\/greenblatt-the-swerve-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2435,"position":1},"title":"Greenblatt – The Swerve","author":"Pala","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Summary: The rediscovery of Lucretius' text by Italian scribe (Poggio Bracciolini) and its impact on contemporary\u00a0\/ renaissance thinking. 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