ELEGANTLY STATED —“The great pull of the German justificationary arts & letter

ELEGANTLY STATED

—“The great pull of the German justificationary arts & letters is evident, perhaps most so on Germans ourselves. They have thus achieved their aspired historical function (in Curt’s terms, Nietzsche/Wagner etc. are not pushing objective arguments, but aim to inspire/rally around ideals).

And yet our ascendancy to empire was cut short, therefore no corresponding corpus filosofico in terms of running the thing, resolving legal disputes, governance etc. There’s no Confucius to our Yüe Fei, no Shogun to our Emperor, no workout scheme to our pre-session pump-up video.

But there are traces of what might eventually have spawned a German empirico-legalistic school: the medieval town codes, or the historical beginnings of what would become Austrian economics come to mind; Hanseatic statutes, possibly.

Thing is, those solely romantically inclined have little need for that missing corpus, while those naturally duty-bound, quiet (unheroic) and industrious (the vast majority of Germans in my estimation) don’t even have the vocabulary to begin to articulate what they’re missing. Cheers mates”— Benjamin Lange