I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — “But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. — T Clark
But by your own hypothesis this is not true. unenlightened is enlightened; he just doesn't realise/hasn't realised it. In which case, unenlightenment is a 'mistake' that one is continuously making. — unenlightened
What is it to be Enlightened?
To be enlightened is to find out that you were wrong in thinking a particular thought and instead of doubling down you change your mind. — Harry Hindu
Wrong — praxis
Then what enlightenment is is subjective?In the East it mean the realization of emptiness. In the West it means weight loss. — praxis
Stanford Encyclopedia suggests that “Nietzsche’s psychology treats the self as something that has to be achieved or constructed, rather than as something fundamentally given as part of the basic metaphysical equipment with which a person enters the world.” — Joshs
Dear Harold Bloom said of Emerson: "Emerson is the mind of our climate; he is the principal source of the American difference in poetry and criticism and in pragmatic postphilosophy." Do you think this holds? — Tom Storm
To be enlightened is to find out that you were wrong in thinking a particular thought and instead of doubling down you change your mind. — Harry Hindu
Then enlighten me about enlightenment. Am I enlightened now when I'm "wrong", or when I change my mind and agree with you? — Harry Hindu
Then what enlightenment is is subjective? — Harry Hindu
I like the way it sounds, but I don't know what it means. I've never cared for Emerson's poetry much. — T Clark
Can you say more? Do you mean to say that unattachment is a less pejorative manifestation of apathy? — Tom Storm
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