Thursday, January 29, 2009

From Mikhail Bakhtin

1. I both actively and passively participate in Being.
2. My uniqueness is given but it simultaneously exists only to the degree to which I actualize this uniqueness (in other words, it is in the performed act and deed that has yet to be achieved).
3. Because I am actual and irreplaceable I must actualize my uniqueness.

I wonder if I could compare this to the movement of soul referenced in the post below.

A soul is formed from acts and deeds. The entire soul may or may not be present at the physical end of death. I hate the idea of gnostic spark and it is so easy to go there. Perhaps between aesthetics and ethics, rhetoric and philology I can bargain hunt the sublime.

later

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