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“An aesthetic idea can not be knowledge, because
it is an intuition (of the imagination)
for which an adequate concept can never be found.”
(Kant, Critique of Judgement)
“And the more souls there are who love on high, the more there is to love, the more of loving, for like a mirror each returns it to the other.”
(Dante, Purgatorio, XV, 73-75)
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THE HEROIC SPECTACLE OF MORALS The Wolf, The Serpent & The Dove
“And she, the wolf, who seemingly, was gaunt yet gorged on every kind of craving and had already blighted many a life so heavily oppressed my thought with fears... I lost all hope of reaching to those heights.” (Dante, Inferno Canto I)
1. Art by Ocampo, Manuel. http:/www.askart.com/AskART/photos/PHL20070518 4218/460.jpg March 6, 2009.
2. Hume’s famous quote. “We have elements of the dove, wolf and serpent.” 95.
“For I can see them in that truthful mirror which makes itself reflective of all else but which can be reflected nowhere else.” (Dante, Paradiso XXVI, 106-108)
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