Showing posts with label amor fati. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amor fati. Show all posts

1/20/13

Nietzsche said: “I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things ..."

Nietzsche said: “I want to learn more and more 
to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; 
then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. 
Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! . . . 
And all in all and on the whole: 
some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”

With Keats Nietzsche is the herald of Triadic Philosophy
Nietzsche sees the realm of human activity is the Aesthetic
the place where truth and beauty become one
Henceforth moralism is a silly endeavor
Whether something is true and beautiful or not
says it all
Some see beauty in everything
Amor fati means love your life

Those who practice Triadic Philosophy also see
the ugliness in harm   
and the effects of harm over time 
Beauty then is prospect
transformation
where none seemed to exist
It is here that the values that 
are universal
tolerance democracy
helpfulness and non-idolatry
cast their shining light 
on the thought 
that leads to what we will

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1/6/13

Triadic Philosophy Glossary - Amor Fati ( Love Your Life)

Amor fati means love your life
Amor fati  was Nietzsche's term for the sense that
if life consisted solely of this moment
you would love it
and be content to relive it
Amor fati is linked in Nietzsche to his ideas of 
recurrence and eternal return

Triadic Philosphy embraces
amor fati  
but in the context of  continuity
of moving forward
of chronology
eyes open to the present
seeing what is there
right under our noses
Seizing every present 
as a point at which you sense that truth and beauty
are identical 
as Keats makes clear in his
Ode to A Grecian Urn

Amor fati is unforced
It comes to mind
when heralded
It is dolce far niente
(sweet doing nothing)
in the midst of
whatever you are doing
Loving your life relates to 
the sphere of
all action
in Triadic Philosophy
The Aesthetic
Yes 
the theater of life is meant 
to fuse truth and beauty 
at every point
not as some compulsive posturing
but as your confident acceptance
of the tendency and purpose of the cosmos
Amor fati


Aug 18, 2013
Posted 18th August by Stephen C. Rose. Classic. PUBLISHING HISTORY. TWITTER. TRIADIC PHILOSOPHY 100 APHORISMS. TRIADIC TALES. PINTEREST. CAFEPRESS. YOUTUBE. Aug. 13. It will take a century to deal ...
Jan 06, 2013
Amor fati means love your life. Amor fati was Nietzsche's term for the sense that. if life consisted solely of this moment. you would love it. and be content to relive it. Amor fati is linked in Nietzsche to his ideas of. recurrence and ...
Oct 07, 2012
Amor fati can mean. embrace existence. love your life. love your fate. accept the now. Nietzsche used it many times. to summarize such an attitude. It parses with Peirce's insistence on. continuity. as the basic underlying ...
Jul 21, 2012
Amor Fati in Triadic Philosophy - Aphorism Seven - YouTube. Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store. Posted 18th August by Stephen C. Rose. Aug. 13. It will take a century to deal with community, density and security - YouTube.




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12/10/12

The Aftermath of Leaving Renewal Magazine



My leaving Renewal Magazine was a long process that began in late 1965. At the apex of the magazine's rise to considerable success, the Chicago City Missionary Society itself began to grow in national prominence. It eventually renamed itself  the Community Renewal Society. In the process overtures came to expand Renewal Magazine and I agreed to add a New York office and to bring on Jim McGraw as New York Editor. Growth of the magazine continued but I was less and less at ease with the direction we were taking. Precisely when this was happening, I began to work on my book The Grass Roots Church. In the summer of 1965 I took my family to Europe and worked exclusively on the book, It became pretty obvious to me that Renewal could function without me. Jim was a well-connected and capable editor and a good writer. I had made some initial overtures to see if we might consolidate the progressive media - uniting Renewal with Christianity and Crisis and The Christian Century - but there were no takers for this idea. The upshot was that as 1966 dawned  I had at some level already said goodby to Renewal as the vehicle for whatever it was I might want to achieve. It happened that a prominent renewalist from the World Council of Churches spoke to our staff and that as I rode down in the elevator with him, I said, Hey Albert, when am I coming to Geneva. It took about three weeks to arrive at a decision to move lock stock and barrel to Geneva and become editor of yet another publication RISK. But the break was not complete. I remained Editor at Large and Renewal continued to flourish. In fact it widened its scope since I was able to include some material from abroad, notably discussions of ekistics and C. A. Doxiadis and material on development which I was working on in Geneva.  My time in Geneva was personally volatile. I became anxious and subject to panic attacks. I was confused about things. I felt the World Council was a largely irrelevant island where one could live pleasantly forever. And that the action was all back in the US of A. I became close friends with the incoming head of the WCC, Eugene Carson Blake, but even his offer of a job working directly with him could not conquer my reservations. I moved back to Chicago and shared the editorship of Renewal with Jim and took to the road to defend the premises of the newly-published Grass Roots Church. As I look back, it is hard to avoid the fact that I had a profound ambivalence problem. I was ambivalent about the church, Ambivalent about a career. And ambivalent in general. It amazes me today to think of how I might have acted if knew then what I know now. Then too, one might suggest that I was being swept along,  along with everyone else, by events. By 1967 the fissures that would help turn the 1960s into a trauma ward were palpable. The notion that the center could hold, that the mainline churches could exert influence, that the Civil Rights movement could win - all these were no longer tenable. Most of the premises of renewal were therefore equally tenuous. We essentially sleepwalked through the months that culminated in the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. I had corresponded with Bobby Kennedy when in Geneva and I believe I was among the first to seriously propose that he run in 1968. I had interviewed Martin Luther King but by now Renewal magazine had dipped its finger into the growing factionalism of the time. We had opposed King's's move to Chicago. It was in the shadow of the assassinations that I wrote a letter of resignation, setting the end of summer 1968 as the date of leaving. I should mention that the Society had moved its offices and expanded and my reaction to that was largely negative. It seemed to me that something was being lost. The Society had become more a bureaucracy. My reason for leaving was clear - it was to dig deeper into the crisis I was feeling every day. Renewal would continue until the early 1970s when it eventually would move to New York and  to the National Committee of Black Churchmen where it soon expired. I did not follow it after leaving Chicago. In a later conversation with Don Benedict, I said to him, Maybe I never should have left. And he agreed emphatically. But we were talking about a project that was already destined to end within a few years of its beginning. And I lacked the capacity at the time to guide it any differently. The Society survived as a largely secular agency in Chicago doing good work there. Christian renewalist journalism is almost nowhere to be found. Christianity and Crisis bit the dust. The theological problem I saw at the time was not simply the inadequate theology of the church at large. It was also the failure of any opponent to arrive at anything that had traction. There was no counter-movement. The result is today's largely right-wing tending church. It took a long time to come to terms with the theological piece of this narrative. I don't think a day has passed since leaving Renewal that I have not  been  moving toward what these days is at least a framework, a framework that, had I had it then, might have altered everything.



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