My Brother, where do you intend to go tonight?

So I started writing again tonight. It was a lot harder than I thought that it would be. Surely, I haven't written a substantial piece of philosophy since last November, but it was more difficult than I expected to gather my many thoughts into tangible, communicable ideas. I began work on my paper for my Philosophy of Imagination paper. As mentioned before, I am writing my paper on the idea that ethics find their foundation in the imagination. I am using the myth of Cain and Abel to extend my point that even though Cain has been historically and theologically construed as a villain, and as a character that should act as a foil to our own behavior. I am attempting then, to reconstruct Cain as an imaginative revolutionary that defies God and creates his own reality. While some of the passages of Genesis that I use are bare in their information, my method of deconstruction and historical application essentially "beefs up" some of the verses and gives a new meaning to the idea of sibling rivalry and role reversal. My eventual goal is to establish the idea, or discovery of an ethical framework that tempers our outlook and decision-making process. While some may oversimplify this and say it is just our "nature" or "disposition" or "that's how he/she is." They are missing the point as that is exactly what the Greek word ethos means: nature, disposition. We actualize our imagined realities and thus create our own future. We can be immortal through ideas and our actions. True immortality is legacy, not just not dying.

"All great problems require great love...It makes the most difference whether a thinker has a personal relationship to his problems and finds in them his destiny, his distress, and his greatest happiness...for even if great problems allow themselves to be grasped by them they would not permit...weaklings to hold on to them."

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Love for the one you know more,

Philip