I remember a very different Halloween on a grey day in Zagreb 2002. I did not know what to make of it. The city buses were turned over to the Church to rotate all-day continuously from the Cathedral to the Cemetery. Orderly lines of shabbily dressed families in their Sunday clothes seemed not to get shorter across the day. There were 10s…
I remember a very different Halloween on a grey day in Zagreb 2002. I did not know what to make of it. The city buses were turned over to the Church to rotate all-day continuously from the Cathedral to the Cemetery. Orderly lines of shabbily dressed families in their Sunday clothes seemed not to get shorter across the day. There were 10s of thousand candles at night. Croatia was not long out of a war and had a depressed economy. The right-wing semi-authoritarian Tudjman (corrupt democracy) had passed and momentum moved toward the EU. I talked with youngsters about football and wondered about the Catholic Church.
Just this week a concept showed up that I had not known was thoroughly discussed by Hannah Arendt; what she called ‘Natality’. This was in an essay by Samantha Rose Hill on Arendt called ‘When Hope is a Hindrance’ re-published by Aeon. (One has to be selective about Aeon and too much reading for that matter.) There is a connection with ‘action’. Given the hallucinatory co-incidences of the internet, Aristotle turned up on twitter as a quote today from a Professor of Primary Care at at Oxford: “wisdom has to do with action, and the sphere of action is constituted by particulars”.
I remember a very different Halloween on a grey day in Zagreb 2002. I did not know what to make of it. The city buses were turned over to the Church to rotate all-day continuously from the Cathedral to the Cemetery. Orderly lines of shabbily dressed families in their Sunday clothes seemed not to get shorter across the day. There were 10s of thousand candles at night. Croatia was not long out of a war and had a depressed economy. The right-wing semi-authoritarian Tudjman (corrupt democracy) had passed and momentum moved toward the EU. I talked with youngsters about football and wondered about the Catholic Church.
Just this week a concept showed up that I had not known was thoroughly discussed by Hannah Arendt; what she called ‘Natality’. This was in an essay by Samantha Rose Hill on Arendt called ‘When Hope is a Hindrance’ re-published by Aeon. (One has to be selective about Aeon and too much reading for that matter.) There is a connection with ‘action’. Given the hallucinatory co-incidences of the internet, Aristotle turned up on twitter as a quote today from a Professor of Primary Care at at Oxford: “wisdom has to do with action, and the sphere of action is constituted by particulars”.
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Phil