Marcus Aurelius the power of philosophical think

Marcus Aurelius imperator of 2th century after Christ was an example of importance to policy, policy both during Roman Empire and after also; because he adopted his philosophical think and he mentions in his principal book, Memories, all his experience about philosophical think and what he has learned; in fact he employed much philosopher at his time and he written about his culture, but moral culture, and we must consider that word moral, is from Latin mores, this is behaviour and costume, therefore he writes about Rusticus(100-170 a.Ch.) stoic philosopher and master of Marcus Aurelius, Apollonius of Tiana and other. He mentioned them and he remembers that from Rusticus: “Make to me concept that my morals need of correction  and culture, and I no must amuse to imitate Sophist philosophers and don’t write exhortative orations, so that I can excite stupor and success”, and after: “To leave rhetoric, poesy and elegant words as elegant cloth”, and: “During read don’t be satisfied with superficial read but consider with attention all matter”, and by Apollonius to go on with frankness and resolute constancy and don’t vacillate”; during his emperor role Marcus Aurelius worked to modify some moral conception, by now become normal; he thought that slavery was execrable and he given right to slaves and poor, he was a perfect policy man and he was very several to himself but very good with other, and his memories are testify of this think, that he thought and above all he applied to Roman Empire; therefore Marcus Aurelius was perfect coherent to his think, therefore he was almost Socratic, he applied his think to his life.

Alessandro Lusana              

 

Pragmatic Hegelianism

A man was reading a philosophical dictionary, and a woman approached to him and she asked: “What do you are reading?” and man answered “Dialectical life and how is possible translation of this concept in practical life, because to me it is very difficult”, and woman that while was set answered: “To be and nor to be to Hegel are in same spirit, because this encloses all, both positive and negative, therefore present and not present, all and contrary of all”, and man: “Yes, therefore?”, and woman: “In a man is all, because he has positive and negative, and he has ambitions and desire!” and man: “Yes, therefore?”, and woman: “If you want be very strong, while you are very weak, you have a negative condition, because you are very weak but you have desire to be very strong, therefore you have in yourself positive and negative, second is weak but first image of strong and desire to reach it, in yourself you have in same time positive and negative, contrast and effort to reach the strong is dialectical competition, contrast and will to become strong; but you have twice condition; we can think that natural matter, to exemple a piece of marble is alone symbolic art because it is absolutely natural matter, but we think that the work of sculptor is a dialectical effort that transforms matter to sculpture and art, this dialectical effort is during action and struggle between man and matter, matter has always natural matter but very bettered, because is art, therefore thesis, antithesis and synthesis are dialectical become of idea, natural idea but always idea. The effort is dialectical contrast between matter and ideal concept, therefore between that is now present, your ambition and your state, you are matter, natural matter, the ambition is the ideal that you want be”, woman got up and man asked: “What’s your name?”, and woman: “Sophia and last name Philo, goodbye”, and she gone away.

Alessandro Lusana  

     

An American proustian

Reading the The Great Gatsby of Francis Scott Fitzgerald published at 1925 in New York City is a romance of rich American life about twenties years, at last rich middle class, that is told with much particulars that have, in conformity with Hegelian philosophy, universal concept of everything; in fact description of these particulars is, certainly, an experience of read of Marcel Proust, and of his major literary work this is Recherché du temp perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, but at last six books of this work were published at 1925: Du côté de chez Swann, 1913,   À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, 1919, Le côté de Guermantes, 1920,  Sodome et Gomorrhe, 1921-1922,  La prisonnière, 1923, La fugitive or Albertine disparue, 1925; these are six of all Recherché, that are almost contemporary and previous one than French period of Scott Fitzgerald, in fact he lived in French at 1920, same year of Le côté de Guermantes, and 1921, same years of Sodome et Gomorrhe, when he known Gertrude Stein, an intellectual woman, at 1924 he known Sara and Gerald Murphy an American couple that lived in Côte d’Azur, this is French, and he could red Proust and his books with very much particulars that Proust described long his style of narration; in fact in The Great Gatsby much particulars are present but seem useless because haven’t a continuity, but have their nature and their profile that is essential for romance, and Hegelian nature is in particular because everything is in particular, and life of middle class of twenties both American and European is in particulars, this is in descripted objects of romance, that document standard of living and cultural standard, typical of that period and therefore typical of history, and therefore typical of human gender, therefore universal.

Alessandro Lusana