So do I, generally. I think it ties into love-and-knowledge and "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." The philosophers did us ill service by divorcing the heart and the head. They are distinct, to be sure, but not divisible.
I've been really enjoying Eliot's lectures on the metaphysical poets. I'm only on the second one, but I appreciate how he brings out their ability to use poetry to think and feel at the same time: to make thought sensible. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind?" Sorry, Macbeth moment there. :-)
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So do I, generally. I think it ties into love-and-knowledge and "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." The philosophers did us ill service by divorcing the heart and the head. They are distinct, to be sure, but not divisible.
I've been really enjoying Eliot's lectures on the metaphysical poets. I'm only on the second one, but I appreciate how he brings out their ability to use poetry to think and feel at the same time: to make thought sensible. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind?" Sorry, Macbeth moment there. :-)
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