Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Insoluble Conflict in the Nature of the Universe
The strong must have room in which to breathe, and the weak go to the wall if they do it. This has a kind of natural affinity to harman's view that god is closer to the abnormal than he is to the normal. Harman says all great masters who excel in human endeavours were sick men. In one way or another, had wounds. Hercules, ajax, socrates, saint paul solon, the hebrew prophets, bacantes, demonic figures. You see itit's a sort of original, perhaps, moment at which the whole what might be called evsky complex comes into existence.
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