die Götter von Weimar?

in retrospect:
out of "the Gods of Weimar" -- die Götter von Weimar -- a serious seeker should leave having come to know the individuals Goethe, Herder, Wieland, Schiller, et al.
 

football vs philosophy

reflecting on Weimar studies...
the modern-spectacles in the American football stadia are a good example of a profound contrary to "Bildung"
 

irrelevant studies?

so far, no one has asked of studies and time in Weimar, et in Germany in July.
 

Bildung vs American television

"Bildung" vs American television's inspidization
  

back into the madhouse

arriving from Berlin in Moscow, overheard a quite common looking, pudgy Russian woman, on reaching the crowd at Passport Control, say to someone beside her: "Durdom nachenayetsa". ('The madhouse [or the house of fools, or idiots] begins".)
indeed.
 

Berleen is 20-50 years old

many of the primary places now to visit in Berlin show you the history of those who lead to the destruction of the city.
with most (80%) of the city destroyed in WWII, Berlin is only 20-50 years old
 

food for the Russian winter

last aft here in library...
food gathered for the winter in Weimar's Anna Amalia Study Centre...

on Spinoza, Herder, Goethe, Fr. Schlegel, Geschichte des Bildungsbegriffs, Rezeptionsgeschichte der Bibel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hesse, et al.
  

Goethe, Schleiermacher, Milton

"And when Friedrich [Schlegel] lent him his presentation copy of Schleiermacher's Discourses he read the first two or three with eager admiration of their breadth of culture, but 'the more negligent the style became, and the more Christian the religion, the more this effect changed into its opposite, and finally the whole thing ended in wholesome and cheerful antipathy'. During the summer [1799] he had read Milton's Paradise Lost in the Weimar Park, perhaps seeking guidance for his own attempt in Faust to turn Christian theology to poetic effect, but, though he conceived a considerable respect for Milton, the subject of his epic, for all its advantages of an easy appeal to the faithful, remained in his view 'worm-eaten and hollow within'....If Milton could not help him, Schleiermacher certainly could not either."

-- Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803, Nicolas Boyle, 2000, p. 643.
  

moonshine on the Ilm, 1799

"For a week the author of 'To the Moon' rose in the middle of the night and from the silent meadows of the Ilm observed that 'so significant object' through a seven-foot telescope made by a local craftsman. 'There was a time when people wanted the emotion of the moon, now they want the sight of it', he later said to Schiller, who acutely remarked on the uncanny tangibility in the telescope of an image that otherwise seemed purely and unapproachably visual. The mystery of Nature only receded, however, it did not vanish."

-- Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803, Nicolas Boyle, 2000, p. 641.
  

there are two kinds of people in the world...

those who want stimulants...
and those who prefer tranquilizers!