Alison wrote:
“Erminia
However, I must point out that love and passion are different things, if
related. “……..
Alison, I spoke critically about “passion” because you poested a quote by
Muriel Rukeyser, about “passion”, not “love”. Here your quote:
" I think the exchange of energy is what happens in art.
There are so many ways in which one is conducted to learning, so many
ways in which one seeks, and ways in which one loves the people from whom
one can learn. The passion with which one reaches to such people goes on
forever and ever; it is in one's own poems, and in the poems one reads..."
I was responding to this idea. In my view this is a form of an
aethetized “goodness”, trying to confuse love with passion. In this quote
I do not see much sense of love, but a sense of art seen as a reciprocal
gain, an exchange of worth”.
This is indeed my point:
>Good actions for the sake of other people should be
>sensed as burdensome, weighty, not rewarding. What
>rewards the ego, even in altruistic actions, is not a
>good measure for what is morally valuable in terms of
>other peopleís real sake. So moral actions should
>appear and be perceived as a sacrifice not a passion.
Then, you added “..Rukeyser also said wisely: beware of those who talk
about sacrifice.”
Rukeyser was against Kant, then, and against Jesus: they were the 2 who
mostly spoke about “sacrifice”. So, in Rukeyser’s idea, oen should be
beware of them…
Best , eppi
(in a hurry to go to the cinema..)
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