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    Transcendentalism, 1st Lecture (Part One)

    UNIVERSE

    SOCIETY NATURE

    “SOUL” “SPIRIT”

    “the ME” “the NOT ME”

    NATURAL LAW MORAL LAW


    (Distinction between good and evil) (Understanding the essence of good vs. the essence of evil)
    (Plato: Anamnesis / Christianity: the image of God, N. Chomsky vs. M. Foucault: (Kant: das Ding an Sich, Hegel: Weltgeist/the Thing Itself vs. the World Spirit /
    Nativism vs. Empiricism Universal Spirit)

    INTROSPECTION RETROSPECTION INSPECTION PROSPECTION


    (Subjective investigation (Subjective investigation (Objective investigation of (Objective investigation of
    of the self) of the historical past) the prospected future)
    present life)

    COMMODITIES DETACHMENT
    (Material things, corporality, personal identity) (Spiritual life, non-corporality, impersonal/transpersonal identity)

    STAGNATION CONTEMPLATION

    CAPTIVITY FREEDOM
    The act of “transcendence” from the PERSONAL to the IMPERSONAL

    SUBJECTIVITY OBJECTIVITY

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