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1. Let's start amidst the "Sturm und Drang" of late Romanticism. Who wrote the following statement?
"Through Apollo and Dionysus, the two art deities of the Greeks, we come to recognize that in the Greek world there existed a tremendous opposition, in origin and aims, between the Apollonian art of sculpture, and the non-imagistic, Dionysian art of music."
2. And now let's look to the philosophers of the British Isles. Who wrote the following?
"When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion(sic); any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one and infallible consequence of the other. We only find, that the one does actually, in fact, follow the other."
3. Let's get modern and talk politics too. Who wrote the following?
"The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that God was dead and that He had been murdered. This gnostic murder is constantly committed by the men who sacrifice God to civilization. The more fervently all human energies are thrown into the great enterprise of salvation through world-immanent action, the farther the human beings who engage in this enterprise move away from the life of the spirit. And since the life of the spirit is the source of order in man and society, the very success of a gnostic civilization is the cause of its decline."
4. "Anxiety is a qualification of dreaming spirit, and as such it has its place in psychology. Awake, the difference between myself and my other is posited; sleeping, it is suspended; dreaming, it is an intimated nothing. The actuality of the spirit constantly shows itself as a form that tempts its possibility but disappears as soon as it seeks to grasp for it, and it is a nothing that can only bring anxiety. More it cannot do so long as it merely shows itself. The concept of anxiety is almost never treated in psychology. Therefore, I must point out that it is altogether different from fear and similar concepts that refer to something definite, whereas anxiety is freedom's actuality as the possibility of possibility. For this reason, anxiety is not found in the beast, precisely because by nature the beast is not qualified as spirit." Which European philosopher made this existential statement?
5. Which philosopher addressed the very nature of Being with the following statement? "Why are there essents rather than nothing? That is the question. Clearly it is no ordinary question. 'Why are there essents, why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?'- obviously this is the first of all questions, though not in a chronological sense... Many men never encounter this question, if by encounter we mean not merely to hear and read about it as an interrogative formulation but to ask the question, that is, to bring it about, to raise it, to feel its inevitability."
6. Addressing the blank canvas of doubt, who said this? "What comes next? I will imagine: I am not that framework of limbs that is called a human body; I am not some thin air infused into these limbs, or a wind, or a fire, or a vapour, or a breath, or whatever I can picture myself as: for I have supposed that these things do not exist. But even if I keep to this supposition, nonetheless I am something- But all the same, it is still the case that these very things I am supposing to be nothing, are nevertheless not distinct from this 'me' that I know... But this is not the point at issue at present. I can pass judgment only on those things that are known to me. I know that I exist; I am trying to find out what this 'I' is, whom I know."
7. What more recent philosopher wrote this? "Given the fundamental importance to mankind of the transformation of bad violence into good and the equally fundamental inability of men to solve the mystery of this transformation, it is not surprising that men are doomed to ritual; nor is it surprising that the resulting rites assume forms that are both highly analogous and highly diverse."
8. What giant of philosophy started the "Copernican Revolution" in philosophy with writings such as the following?
"Here, then, in pure a priori intuitions, space and time, we have one of the requisites for the solution of the general problem of transcendental philosophy: How are synthetic a priori propositions possible? If in an a priori judgement we want to go beyond the given concept, we find that which can be both discovered a priori and be synthetically connected with it, not in the concept, but in the intuition corresponding to that concept. For this reason, however, such judgments can never reach beyond objects of the senses, and are valid only for objects of possible experience."
9. Which Romantic era philosopher wrote the following?
"Our existence has no foundation on which to rest except the transient present. Thus its form is essentially unceasing motion, without any possibility of that repose which we continually strive after. It resembles the course of a man running down a mountain who would fall over if he tried to stop and can stay on his feet only by running on; or a pole balanced on the tip of the finger, or a planet which would fall into the sun if it ever ceased to plunge irresistibly forward. Thus existence is typified by unrest."
10. And finally, let's wrap it up with a few simple words. Who wrote these?
"What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence."
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