Donne and Findley: COMPARISONS VPON CONTENTALIST EXISTENCES

The thought of Man having a universal condition, that is a universal environment, situation or set of circumstances, is often seen as a product of Continentalist thought. Philosophy before Hegel (or perhaps Locke ) is usually all thrown under the heading of ‘analytical’, determining the nature of our world through reason. Although my previous phrase may not stress it, the most important word from my last sentence is nature. Pre-Hegelian analytical philosophy is almost completely concerned …showed first 75 words of 1837 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1837 total…Donne would encourage us to kindle that “coal, [that] beam of immortality” given to us by God, and also to reform but hold true to the “Catholic, universal” church and cohere to its community. Donne’s existentialist tendencies are just that: tendencies. It is not that his view of the human condition is modern, but rather that it is a view of the human condition at all, that makes Donne proto Continentalist. By Tristan Laing.