{"id":857,"date":"2006-02-26T21:03:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T02:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=857"},"modified":"2006-03-21T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T11:21:08","slug":"overthinking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/overthinking-it","title":{"rendered":"Overthinking It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy & I are getting married in two weeks, and I’m still trying to come up with a good reading for the pre-game show. The following passage is a hoot, mainly because I always envision it on one of those “Love Is” fridge magnets, except it’d have to be about two miles long and has disastrously fascist overtones:<\/p>\n

Love means in general the consciousness of my unity with another, so that I am not isolated on my own, but gain my self-consciousness only through the renunciation of my independent existence and through knowing myself as the unity of myself with another and of the other with me. But love is a feeling, that is, ethical life in its natural form. In the state, it is no longer present. There, one is conscious of unity as law; there, the content must be rational, and I must know it. The first moment in love is that I do not wish to be an independent person in my own right and that, if I were, I would feel deficient and incomplete. The second moment is that I find myself in another person, that I gain recognition in this person, who in turn gains recognition in me. Love is therefore the most immense contradiction; the understanding cannnot resolve it, because there is nothing more intractable than this punctiliousness of the self-consciousness which is negated and which I ought nevertheless to possess as affirmative. Love is both the production and the resolution of this contradiction. As its resolution, it is ethical unity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy & I are getting married in two weeks, and I’m still trying to come up with a good reading for the pre-game show. The following passage is a hoot, mainly because I always envision it on one of those “Love Is” fridge magnets, except it’d have to be about two miles long and has … <\/p>\n

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