Thank you, Herman, for our meeting yesterday. It brought back my memory to the first year of my phd studies, I completely lost sight of. So, in a way, you are better for me than Koos. Really, I mean it. When do we meet again?
Reading David Hume, texts in the book A treatise of human nature (1888), 1978. Book one: of the understanding. A book I found in the library of the VU, april 2013.
Understanding, the main purpose of studying and writing whatshappened ( former : history, I translated the Dutch word 'geschiedenis' into the most adequate and contemporary English)
I quote from the book A treatise of human nature:
All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas.
My question is, while trying to understand the year 2015 we are living in/through. Why is there so much attention for the paintings of Rembrandt, representing social orders, the Nachtwacht, the police at night, guarding over the safety for the city people, especially at night. While you are sleeping. And the other two paintings, representing man and woman, a couple in two parts.
My impression of 2015 and myself and other people is, feeling safe, is an big issue. Also in Europe, in the Netherlands, the most beautiful country on planet Earth, according to quite a few people. One can possibly verify this by counting the amount of tourist visiting the Netherlands this year. 'Windowshopping', just looking...and saying or thinking O, what beautiful!
How and where do we feel safe, safe enough, for there is no real absolute safety feeling. With whom do I feel safe? (We, the collectivity, the borg, the family, the company, the school, the group. I, the individual)
How and where do we not feel safe or not safe enough. And with whom not? ( can be repeated with I).
Now I noted the questions, THE questions. Contemporary whatshappened knowledge I like to join or to start. I have to do some literature again. But before I start reading the loads and loads of books and articles on this subject I think I can complete David Hume by touching:
All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into three different kinds, which I shall call Impressions, Ideas and Matter.
For one cannot exclude oneself. And oneself is a body. And a body is living because of Matter.
Reading David Hume, texts in the book A treatise of human nature (1888), 1978. Book one: of the understanding. A book I found in the library of the VU, april 2013.
Understanding, the main purpose of studying and writing whatshappened ( former : history, I translated the Dutch word 'geschiedenis' into the most adequate and contemporary English)
I quote from the book A treatise of human nature:
All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas.
My question is, while trying to understand the year 2015 we are living in/through. Why is there so much attention for the paintings of Rembrandt, representing social orders, the Nachtwacht, the police at night, guarding over the safety for the city people, especially at night. While you are sleeping. And the other two paintings, representing man and woman, a couple in two parts.
My impression of 2015 and myself and other people is, feeling safe, is an big issue. Also in Europe, in the Netherlands, the most beautiful country on planet Earth, according to quite a few people. One can possibly verify this by counting the amount of tourist visiting the Netherlands this year. 'Windowshopping', just looking...and saying or thinking O, what beautiful!
How and where do we feel safe, safe enough, for there is no real absolute safety feeling. With whom do I feel safe? (We, the collectivity, the borg, the family, the company, the school, the group. I, the individual)
How and where do we not feel safe or not safe enough. And with whom not? ( can be repeated with I).
Now I noted the questions, THE questions. Contemporary whatshappened knowledge I like to join or to start. I have to do some literature again. But before I start reading the loads and loads of books and articles on this subject I think I can complete David Hume by touching:
All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into three different kinds, which I shall call Impressions, Ideas and Matter.
For one cannot exclude oneself. And oneself is a body. And a body is living because of Matter.
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