man’s search for meaning
I’m learning how to get accustomed to a city, quickly.
I found an environmentally-friendly, and CHEAP, laundromat. Sauber und Schnell. I showed it to everyone else; I’m glad I can help other people out now, instead of relying on others to show me around and tell me what’s where.
Here is a shortened, convoluted summary of what I’ve learned concerning Romance from Herr Professor Macdonald:
Romance
Sehnsucht - “longing” - “a yearning to escape from the monotony of daily life” - Walzel
tantalizing: a thrilling torment with the promise of something that seems unobtainable
- Man’s Search for Meaning
Freud - pleasure, Hitler - power
Frankl - work, significance, courage
- C.S. Lewis - “if we’ve got an infinite longing, why not think there’s an answer for it. if there’s a desire in this world, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
“the argument from desire”
Music - “heightens and ennobles everything it expresses”- Goethe.
Nature - Arthur Conan Doyle - “If evolution is all we need, then why does the rose exist?”
Europe - foundation of our Western way of life and thought. leads to a greater truth - points to the magic of something greater: “God, freedom, immortality.”
