Ideas--at least the discussion of them--as a point of departure seems a radical notion given the culture that exists. Hesse's view of the environment is just as timely now as it was when he wrote the novel: It could easily have been written today.
I will suggest that Hesse speaks of a culture that has derived its authority (such as it is) from dogma that is driven by reactions and hedonism and fear. I believe that the author proposes something more cerebral, a more reasoned consideration of the collective disciplines. And isn't that the Glsss Bead Game? It seems to me that he advocates for productive debate. Just as the inhale & exhale depend upon each other (as Chapter 3 describes) so does reason & experience. Reason alone can reamin untested and gilded. Similarly, experience can spin its wheels and remain nothing more than an incohesive collection of events.
Hesse seems to seek balance through synthesis. Somewhere in these discussion DL Hesse mentioned that Robert Tulip must have faith to pusue these questions. Likewise, Knecht dares to question: He is not afraid to peel another layer from the onion. I have always (okay, not exactly always...but for a long time) believed that it is people who have faith in something who will seek.
@Robert Tulip: I have thrown the I Ching a few times, and I am amazed at how significant to my own life it is. Jung's synchronicity has taken on new meaning in my life in recent years: I have discovered that when I am "right sized," i. e. synchronized & in harmony, that what I once called coincidence or miracle is the norm.
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"The Glass Bead Game", A General Introduction to it's History for the Layman
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Re: "The Glass Bead Game", A General Introduction to it's History for the Layman
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It seems to me that he advocates for productive debate. Just as the inhale & exhale depend upon each other (as Chapter 3 describes) so does reason & experience. Reason alone can reamin untested and gilded. Similarly, experience can spin its wheels and remain nothing more than an incohesive collection of events.
This is absolutely an essential POV....Reason/Experience is Inhale/Exhale is Yin/Yang......
It seems to me that he advocates for productive debate. Just as the inhale & exhale depend upon each other (as Chapter 3 describes) so does reason & experience. Reason alone can reamin untested and gilded. Similarly, experience can spin its wheels and remain nothing more than an incohesive collection of events.
This is absolutely an essential POV....Reason/Experience is Inhale/Exhale is Yin/Yang......
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Re: "The Glass Bead Game", A General Introduction to it's History for the Layman
Yes, and the core of it is that true ideas provide strategic security. Hesse observes that belief in false ideas leads to harm, with the conflagrations of Europe in the First and Second World Wars his prime example. This suggestion of reliance on pure ideas must have been a big part in the decision to award Hesse the Nobel Prize for Literature, with the recognition that discussion of truth creates connections of trust and dialogue, as an essential basis for peace and progress. By contrast, reliance on error creates problems that only expand until the error is identified and corrected.Murrill wrote:Ideas--at least the discussion of them--as a point of departure seems a radical notion given the culture that exists. Hesse's view of the environment is just as timely now as it was when he wrote the novel: It could easily have been written today.
Reason and experience form a primary antinomy, or apparent paradox, in The Glass Bead Game. Experience seems to be accidental and disordered, but there is always a logical order of causality that can explain seemingly disjointed events. Reason articulates the inner logic of events. But reason always runs the risk of collapsing into its bastard cousin, rationalization, in which logic builds on an initial error. The feedback provided by experience enables reason to be true.I will suggest that Hesse speaks of a culture that has derived its authority (such as it is) from dogma that is driven by reactions and hedonism and fear. I believe that the author proposes something more cerebral, a more reasoned consideration of the collective disciplines. And isn't that the Glsss Bead Game? It seems to me that he advocates for productive debate. Just as the inhale & exhale depend upon each other (as Chapter 3 describes) so does reason & experience. Reason alone can reamin untested and gilded. Similarly, experience can spin its wheels and remain nothing more than an incohesive collection of events.
My faith is in nature, looking to how human life can be at one with the universe. This leads me to reinterpret religious ideas by looking for the error of rationalization brought about by the corruption of taking popular allegory for ultimate truth. It remains the fact that you cannot achieve anything without faith, but durable good achievements require that faith be grounded in reality.Hesse seems to seek balance through synthesis. Somewhere in these discussion DL Hesse mentioned that Robert Tulip must have faith to pusue these questions. Likewise, Knecht dares to question: He is not afraid to peel another layer from the onion. I have always (okay, not exactly always...but for a long time) believed that it is people who have faith in something who will seek.
Yes, very surprising and mysterious. I think of synchronicity as grappling to understand a fractal vision of time. Everything in the river of experience has a common cosmic causal origin, in the natural emergence of our planet as a single whole event. Entities are free within this causal framework, but are constrained by the big historical trends of which they form part. The overall planetary pattern is like the banks of a river, guiding the flow of the water between them. Events and decisions are like drops of water in the river, or even better, like fish swimming upstream, inclined but not compelled to be guided by the overall natural pattern.@Robert Tulip: I have thrown the I Ching a few times, and I am amazed at how significant to my own life it is. Jung's synchronicity has taken on new meaning in my life in recent years: I have discovered that when I am "right sized," i. e. synchronized & in harmony, that what I once called coincidence or miracle is the norm.