Steiner George: Zašto razmišljanje rastužuje

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Author: Steiner George
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Zašto razmišljanje rastužuje

Steiner George

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George Steiner: Why thinking makes you sad

Acts of thought are hopelessly wasteful, individual but rarely original, unaccountable, but also constrained by the limits of language. Thought is omnipresent – we can stop breathing for a moment, says George Steiner, but not think. Everyone thinks, both the one who devises complex geometric theorems and the one who can't devise the placing of cubes in the square of a city. But what about the thought that we consider the best, where does it lead us? Usually nowhere, says Steiner. "One unbearable fact still remains: whatever the reputation of thought, its concentration, its ability to leap over the precipice of the unknown, whatever its talent for communication and symbolic representation, thought does not come close to understanding its primary objects. We are not an inch closer to a verifiable solution to the riddle of our existence, its nature or purpose, if they exist at all, in this presumably manifold universe, we are no closer to answering the question whether death is final or not whether there is a God or not, but it was Parmenides or Plato. Perhaps we are even further than them. "

"Why thinking saddens", an essay by Georg Steiner, professor of comparative literature at Oxford, talks about the splendor and misery of thought in ten short chapters, or "ten possible reasons for sadness". Starting from Schelling's idea that every thought is permeated by sadness, Steiner thinks about thinking by including in his thoughts, in addition to traditional humanistic knowledge, new knowledge from cosmology and neurobiology, and sheds a strong light on what we all constantly do - think.

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