The architectonic structure of a reading day
I will try to make this my last post for awhile, any further thoughts would be added to previous posts, namely the pinned, something I actually don't like doing.
1.
First there has to be something inspirational and instructive, the 2 leading groupings is Taoism and Stoicism, in the former are not just Taoist books proper but Taoist friendly volumes and Eastern thought in general, but for Stoicism, it is mainly just the 3 big ones from Roman times. All in footnote heavy editions. Lyrical and applicable philosophy belongs here. The following addition is thus here corrected, but the below is preserved owing to how it leads to the kind of philosophy that is dry and abstract that offsets and compliments the aesthetic.
2.
There is to be a reinforcing of the prior with an aesthetic source or more, such as poetry, classic literature, or modernist. So for example: Rilke, English and German Romanticism, and/or 19th century novels, or modernist smarty pants big book stuff. or a philosophical source(s) which are either lyrical, or applicable. I do have dry abstract thinkers to draw upon, but scantily they shall pop in. Also this is where some weird fiction can come into play, and any other genre stuff that may also be in the cusp of the aesthetic.
3.
Theology is to appear in the guise of the Reformed ... Beeke, Bavinck, Turretin, Mastrict, a Brakel, and Owen being my pack of jellybean hounds. Not to mention the Genevan fella who's name is often used to encapsulate Reformed doctrine.
at this point either 1 or 2, then the other then 3, and back again, this is a basic rotation I must use as a way to provide my mind some direction, and scope, points of reference. And now that i've over shared this wake period, allow me then to take some time off and bask in the sunlight of my predetermined choices which cancel out my free will.
1.
First there has to be something inspirational and instructive, the 2 leading groupings is Taoism and Stoicism, in the former are not just Taoist books proper but Taoist friendly volumes and Eastern thought in general, but for Stoicism, it is mainly just the 3 big ones from Roman times. All in footnote heavy editions. Lyrical and applicable philosophy belongs here. The following addition is thus here corrected, but the below is preserved owing to how it leads to the kind of philosophy that is dry and abstract that offsets and compliments the aesthetic.
2.
There is to be a reinforcing of the prior with an aesthetic source or more, such as poetry, classic literature, or modernist. So for example: Rilke, English and German Romanticism, and/or 19th century novels, or modernist smarty pants big book stuff. or a philosophical source(s) which are either lyrical, or applicable. I do have dry abstract thinkers to draw upon, but scantily they shall pop in. Also this is where some weird fiction can come into play, and any other genre stuff that may also be in the cusp of the aesthetic.
3.
Theology is to appear in the guise of the Reformed ... Beeke, Bavinck, Turretin, Mastrict, a Brakel, and Owen being my pack of jellybean hounds. Not to mention the Genevan fella who's name is often used to encapsulate Reformed doctrine.
at this point either 1 or 2, then the other then 3, and back again, this is a basic rotation I must use as a way to provide my mind some direction, and scope, points of reference. And now that i've over shared this wake period, allow me then to take some time off and bask in the sunlight of my predetermined choices which cancel out my free will.
46-50, M
