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I'm reading Thomas Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship.
In Lecture 5, Hero as Man of Letters, Carlyle writes, "The Hero is he who lives in the inward sphere of things, in the True, Divine, and Eternal, which exists always, unseen to most, under the Temporary, Trivial : his being is in that; he declares that abroad, by act or speech as it may be, in declaring himself abroad."
What the fuck did he mean by this? The first part is straightforward, the Hero taps into some eternal spring of being that lends him strength to become a Hero. But, what is this 'being abroad by being abroad' bit? What the fuck was Carlyle saying?
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>>9933915
He means that the hero follows and acts in accordance with logos (beauty, truth, logics, emotion, order, knowledge) regardless of personal costs. It's a pretty christian thing to think. But ironically also reminiscent of Socrates's death, or Odin hanging himself from a tree to gain insight.
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>>9933961
Oh, and the being abroad part is about living it up to it, street cred, being good not for fame's sake.
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>>9933970
Let me wrap my head around this.
"He declares that abroad" = Acting out ideals, not simply paying lip-service to ideals?
As in, Socrates owes everything to Athens and will do anything to serve it, even if it means letting Athens put him to death. Action to back up ideals, even if it leads to your detriment?
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>>9933997
Yes exactly, and not even caring if anyone discovers his self-sacrifice in pursuit of those ideals.
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>>9934001
Also: superficially it means that this hero doesn't go about saying he's a hero. He'll try to come off as a normal guy (abroad from the ideal).
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>>9934042
There's something else in there as well, about being an example to other people who are abroad out here in the normal world without being preachy about it, acting on their level of understanding.
I really think that sentence is now exhausted. Glad I could help.
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>>9933970
>grasshopper
>gras shopper
cf. pate de fois gras
>abroad
>a broad
kek
>oh, wait a minute. that thread died yester- or two days ago whereas this one like the ghost of x-mas present has a few hours yet to live. [we] [all of us] meet the Future ghost when if we're lucky [we] die 'in spirit' first i.e. before [we] die in fact.
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>>9933915
Makes me think of Jesus' saying that no man can be a prophet in his home town. Perhaps the final phrasing is for emphasis. Abroad where who one was cannot be confounded for who one is. Just a paltry guess.
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