Mar 2020
Hegel. The dialectic. A thesis, an antithesis, a synthesis. The foregoing is lucid, intellectual thinking, but ultimately does not bring you to Truth.
Geist, Hegel's word we call 'Spirit" in English, is a step forward, but does
not go far enough. It is amazing to me that philosophers through the ages,
from Socrates through Sartre, have been so smart, so intellectual, that they nonetheless all missed the core meaning of human existence: LOVE.
In the end, it is not "thinking" but "feeling" that makes all of us one. And
to quote Hamlet, there's the rub: untold numbers of human beings either
are never loved, or not loved enough. Truth is love. Love is truth.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
Geist, Hegel's word we call 'Spirit" in English, is a step forward, but does
not go far enough. It is amazing to me that philosophers through the ages,
from Socrates through Sartre, have been so smart, so intellectual, that they nonetheless all missed the core meaning of human existence: LOVE.
In the end, it is not "thinking" but "feeling" that makes all of us one. And
to quote Hamlet, there's the rub: untold numbers of human beings either
are never loved, or not loved enough. Truth is love. Love is truth.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawksnhas been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
