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Constantin Brunner
If we know that we are not alone, then we have courage. And if we are a community, we can act to protect those of us who are in danger. The Brunner movement underwent the ultimate challenge to its collective security during the Nazi years. Many individuals perished. Brunner's own widow and... -
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Constantin Brunner
The best that people of spirit can do for the Volk is to constitute a community unto themselves. This will provide an enduring model by which the Volk can guide their own development. The critical point is that people of spirit have to accept that they are already on the mountain. -
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Constantin Brunner
The shared ideal of the community is its own impregnable defense. Throughout history, people of spirit have been destroyed by first being isolated. My thinking exactly. -
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Constantin Brunner
Something like that.:) Actually, at the end of Our Christ, he has a kind of manifesto where he calls the community of the Geistigen the spiritual Israel. To my mind, what he envisages is an ideal that will concretize over time, its exact contours remaining to be determined, constructed by... -
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Constantin Brunner
Excellent question! For the full answer, you do really have to read Our Christ. How could Christ, that great volcano of love, express such hate? Not at all. Every time a person of spirit tries to makeover someone of the Volk, he is making war on what that person essential is. It means... -
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Constantin Brunner
Ah, 15 posts at last! In celebration, let me post a schema, based on Brunner's own, of his doctrine: -
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Constantin Brunner
I certainly have no objection to calling Brunner a mystic. And certainly there are some who have done so. I’m just saying that he himself was a little cagey on the issue, just as he was on the question of whether he was a philosopher. His objective was to draw attention to the great... -
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Constantin Brunner
Under the spur of this thread, I have been reading Lotte's journal, and it appears that I have to qualify what I wrote earlier about Brunner seeing himself as a thinker. The journal in fact quotes him as saying, "I do not have thoughts. I know or I do not know, but I cannot 'think.' Perhaps... -
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Constantin Brunner
He is quoted in Lotte's journal as saying that, as a youth, "once, I went an entire winter long without going out the door – exactly like a mystic, which I am actually not at all." He definitely had many qualities of a mystic. But his definition of a mystic is very specific, and thus he... -
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Constantin Brunner
Certainly Brunner envisaged such a possibility. In fact, one of the functions of the community is to ensure that when such individuals come forth, they have some protection from mass prejudice. This is a difficult question. Brunner certainly denied that he was a mystic. And I don't know that... -
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Constantin Brunner
Brunner considers Nietzsche to be a hybrid of Geistigen and Volk. Such individuals, among whom he also counts Aristotle, Augustine, Schopenhauer, and Wagner, “are not sick persons per se. They are only dazed by the roars of glory, by the drumming and blasting of the general spirit and of... -
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Constantin Brunner
We're totally on the same page here. I'm going to go ahead and quote that passage from Jones: It looks as though there were two quite diverse types of man, though it would be truer to fact to say that the distinction is probably one of degree rather than one of type. There is, on the one... -
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Constantin Brunner
So, to finish my response to doppelgänger, the idea is to establish the community of Geist so that those who are so inclined do have a choice. Without the community, they have no choice but to live pretty much as the Volk do. -
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Constantin Brunner
The idea is to stimulate a spiritual awakening in those who are capable of such an awakening. For example, if you as a teacher read to your class the poetry of William Blake, chances are that very few of the students will have any receptivity to it. Brunner seeks optimal conditions for spiritual... -
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Constantin Brunner
Absolutely. As you know, Our Christ has extensive treatment of this subject. Unfortunately, I haven't reached 15 posts here, so I can't do links, but I have on my website a passage from the scholar of mysticism, Rufus Jones, that goes over the two-fold division of mankind, and mentions the... -
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Can you be a Pantheist and an Atheist?
Well, on the Brunnerian premise that all categories are only relative, I've gone ahead with Storm's suggestion to start the thread in pantheism. -
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Constantin Brunner
In German, it is called Die Lehre von den Geistigen und vom Volke. It is difficult to translate this in a way that does it justice, and that doesn’t alienate. Basically, Brunner construes two types of thinkers: das Volk, those who base their thought on the practical, material, sensible... -
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Constantin Brunner
Constantin Brunner This thread is intended as a free-ranging discussion of the work of Constantin Brunner [1862-1937], a much-neglected German-Jewish thinker. His work touches on all aspects of thought. What I would like to do is leave the floor open to questions to which I will respond to... -
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Can you be a Pantheist and an Atheist?
Sure, I'd love to start the thread. Any suggestions on an appropriate forum? It would have to be somewhere that wide-ranging discussion is permissible. Brunner is a holistic, anti-categorical thinker. His work touches on everything from Christology to sexology. -
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Can you be a Pantheist and an Atheist?
I would love to get a Brunner thread going. Just the kind of high colonic that's needed around here (I mean our culture in general, not specifically this forum).