Hi Bob, you wrote:
>yes, but "arma virumque cano" still is in the lead these days.
yes, and a little further Spinoza explains:
" .... ut pueri, vel adolescentes, qui parentum jurgia aequo animo
ferre nequeunt, militatum confugiunt, et incommoda belli, et
imperium tyrannidis prae domesticis commodis, et paternis
admonitionubus eligunt, et quidvis oneri sibi imponi patiuntur,
dummodo parentes ulciscantur." [Ethica: IV, app. XIII]
Children and young wo/men (pueri, adolescentes) are driven to war
and terror (militatum confugiunt), not to fight the enemy but, to take
revenge on their own parents (parentes ulciscantur).
This is a disturbing Spinozian insight. It is not to defend their homes
nor the love for one's country that pulls and pushes the youht to the
battlefield, but as Spinoza contends it's the opposite: it is the lack of
parental care and societal bonds, i.e. it's the absence of the warm love
of the home and the generosity of society, that brings the 'cold' to all
those young dynamic bodies in strange and faraway places. When war
is the father of all change, how can homelessness be the the mother of
all wars ?
yours,
Jan
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>yes, but "arma virumque cano" still is in the lead these days.
yes, and a little further Spinoza explains:
" .... ut pueri, vel adolescentes, qui parentum jurgia aequo animo
ferre nequeunt, militatum confugiunt, et incommoda belli, et
imperium tyrannidis prae domesticis commodis, et paternis
admonitionubus eligunt, et quidvis oneri sibi imponi patiuntur,
dummodo parentes ulciscantur." [Ethica: IV, app. XIII]
Children and young wo/men (pueri, adolescentes) are driven to war
and terror (militatum confugiunt), not to fight the enemy but, to take
revenge on their own parents (parentes ulciscantur).
This is a disturbing Spinozian insight. It is not to defend their homes
nor the love for one's country that pulls and pushes the youht to the
battlefield, but as Spinoza contends it's the opposite: it is the lack of
parental care and societal bonds, i.e. it's the absence of the warm love
of the home and the generosity of society, that brings the 'cold' to all
those young dynamic bodies in strange and faraway places. When war
is the father of all change, how can homelessness be the the mother of
all wars ?
yours,
Jan
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