So, 2008 has started and so far it’s been nothing short of amazing. New beginnings that are bringing a change to everything in my reality.
I’m having a hard time containing my excitement.
The new semester starts so soon. There is so much to be happy about at the moment.
I’ve never been much for resolutions. I generally just decide on a goal whenever it’s time for deciding. I guess if anything lined up fortuitously with the New Year it would be a resolution to keep my wits about me as I move into to a few new experiences.
Something tells me that reminding myself to be cautious in this situation is about as useful as asking gravity to take a break for a while. But that’s just fine.
~Q
Quincy,
You asked me in class to send you the link and I can’t find it right now, but if you google “doctrine of fascism” and gentile or mussolini you can find numerous excerpts of this–there is one “complete” text available. It comes from a 1932 definition written by Gentile, the father of “Actual Idealism”, a philosophy designed to navigate between idealism ala Hegel and materialism (or “positivism” as he termed it)…indeed, Gentile argued that his “Actual Idealism” is the true inheritor to positivism…which makes reading the “definition of fascism” all the more relevant I think.
I have an interesting book “Memoirs of the Twentieth Century” by Gentile’s protege Ugo Spirito that puts the whole philosophical bases of fascism in a kind of perspective (and a unique one at that).
Hope that helped.
Comment by mes271 — January 17, 2008 @ 20:29
Thanks for the info Mark – this is what I was after.
~Q
Comment by Quincy — January 19, 2008 @ 15:08