Humanism
"Against the right to difference, it is necessary to ceaselessly reaffirm the right to resemblance."
posted by paul bowman @ 11:15 PM
1/25/2007
'Quare id faciam' is a bit I snagged, without much thought, from 2 lines of verse likely known to anyone who's had a little Latin in school. I borrowed it years ago, looking for a username no one else would want.
And it grew on me. Taken out of its context, it's altered — the tense blurs & its sense may allow, Why will I do it, or, Why will I make it? — suggestive and intertwining questions, as I take them.
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2 Comments:
You did a better job than ALD did of directing me toward this link. Thanks.
Well, I think that was definitely the money quote from the piece — but I imagine it would read a little oddly on the ALD page.
Glad you read it, anyhow.
This more particular notion that's Bruckner's thesis there, more or less, "The Enlightenment belongs to the entire human race, not just to a few ... who have taken it upon themselves to kick it to bits like spoiled brats..." isn't so easy to swallow whole, of course. But the broader sentiment of "right to resemblance" sticks readily for me, even if it is kind of a sloppy way of speaking. (And who am I to talk about anyone's sloppy way of speaking, by the by?)
There's an affronted reply from Ian Buruma, one of Bruckner's "armchair philosophers". Only glanced briefly at it so far, myself, though.
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