Philosophy of Innocence
TRACTATUS PHILOSOPHICUS INNOCENTIAE
by
Per Jespersen
Existence - Metaphysics - Philosophy - Culture - Theology - Children - Politics - Education
EXISTENCE A
Aa.
Sentimentality is psychic exaggeration.
Aaa.
Fairy tales do not even start with "once upon a time" anymore.
Ab.
Our actions must be done without calculation.
Ab.
Cynicism can only be opposed through philosophical acumen. Politics aggravates it.
Principles betray.
Abb.
Systematizing is the false and imaginary freedom. In reality systematizing makes liberty unfree.
Abc.
We suffer from psychiatric corruption.
Aca.
For me writing was to re-experience: to write myself into innocence.
Acb.
Innocence is like a dream -- a crisping on the water, lasting but a second.
Acc.
Look into your child's eyes and be taught by the innocent confidence, you meet there.
Acca.
Work is never political -- it is existential.
Accb.
Expansion is to run away from innocence.
Accba.
Sacraments make people inferior. But Life is sacred.
Accbb.
To bear emotions is to be in harmony with cosmos. Will is to will exactly THAT.
Accbb.
Our thoughts are a mirror of the memorizing of the globe.
Accbba.
As the globe has its memory, we should be able to master the global consciousness.
Accbba.
The memory of the globe lies in its bank of genes, where the experience of billions of years hides in the DNA.
Accbbb.
EDB-consciousness does not lie in the global memory. Hence the virtuality.
Accbbb.
Freedom of the soul is not separation from the physical world, but harmony with it.
Accbbc.
You cannot program computers with values; but we believe, we can.
Accbbd.
The contemporary apocalyptic time spirit leads to spiritual indifference far into the future.
Accbbd.
Far too many people live eschatologically; therefore, they take no notice of the ethics.
Accbbd.
Life itself is apocalyptic, and joy is part of the apocalypse.
Accbbe.
Wise is only he, who is always searching and always on his way.
Aa.
Nijas, I love you, because I made you express my thoughts!
Aab.
Prince or jester -- I prefer the jester.
Aaba.
The branches of hazel on Funen wave like a shadow over, what I really want. (Sandholt).
Aab.
My respect for the individualist, not for the crowd.
Aa.
I still love Eliza -- in total purity.
Acbb.
Vocation causes suffering.
Acbc.
Every morning I have the choice: to live or to die. Apparently, I dare not the latter, but I sure want to. Therefore, I must await a disease, which can kill me.
Acbb.
Suicide is always a possibility. Choosing and rejecting is possibly Life itself?
Acba.
Am I a spiritual terrorist?
Acb.
During the years, when I was writing, I was like a child. A new universe was created, and I was in the middle of it -- as an innocently clean viewer. The reader and the theatre-audience hopefully had the same experience -- possibly only fragmentarily.
Acd.
The Big Brother/Big Sister-system ought to be superfluous. But it is increasingly necessary.
Acd.
Do not call on redemption, but the eternal creation.
Fortunate not always to see the harbour -- miserable to
reach it.
Acda.
Homosexuality is an attempt to comprehend one's own sex as a presupposition to be able to relate to the opposite sex.
Metaphysics B
Ba.
Language cannot unveil ethical relations. We must find ethics in mysticism and sacramentalism.
Ba.
Language gives us categories, which are only half truths.
Bb.
We have a world within us -- a world that language cannot reach. (Nijas).
Bc.
Ignorance puts us under obligation. Hence our commitments.
Bd.
We take thinking for given: thereby we loose the divine wondering. It is a pity for the children.
Be.
Conscience means to be your own witness.
B.
Is conscience = con science? No!
B.
Nothingness is always present. (Nijas in the film "YOU AND I").
Bf.
Art is antilogics and therefore wordless.
B.
Intuition is cosmic.
Baa.
Art and philosophy convey a dimension to Life. Technology is deaf to this dimension.
Bc.
Life is a question and must continue to be.
Bc.
The nuclear of spiritual life is the wondering question.
Bc.
Our knowledge must always contain a questioning element.
Bca.
Knowledge is most valuable, if it is a consequence of existential relations.
Bcb.
To understand oneself is a presupposition for understanding other people.
Baab.
I cannot stand men of letters, because they do not see the philosophy behind their artificial systems.
Ba.
Human spirit is fragile as the dust on a wing of a butterfly.
B.
Truth is uncompromising.
Ba.
To comprehend is to put new impressions into a pre-arranged framework.
Baa.
To comprehend is to try to bring order in chaos. We cannot reconcile with chaos -- therefore, we imagine that we have knowledge.
B.
Knowledge is an illusion.
B.
Knowledge betrays.
BBB.
Lack of love is always present. (Nijas).
Baa.
Vulnerability is a value, but damned difficult to live with.
BBa.
Art gets its strength from the spiritual innocence.
Baaac.
Love is the laserlight of the soul.
BB.
Virtuality kills narrativeness.
Bac.
Sexuality is only honest, if innocence is part of it; otherwise it is lust, which is performance of power of carnality.
Bac.
Care is sublimed sexuality. No no, it must not be right!
Bad.
Sublimaton is an escape into innocence.
BB.
Truth is always subjective.
BB.
Truth is never institutional.
Ba.
There are questions, which cannot be answered. Most of them!
Baa.
Rationality must never become rampant.
Baab.
Cynicism is the "necessary" regression of the mind, if one wants to survive. If cynicism becomes conscious, it turns into guardianship, even in the soul.
Bbbc.
Cynicism freezes the soul into ice.
BBa.
Transcendencialism and intuition is the only way to universal truth.
Baa.
The powers of darkness threaten us all. Darkness is the scheming knowledge, power, and lack of competence.
Baac.
Humanism is care -- not for the sake of care, but for the sake of humanity.
BB.
Scientific thinking contains the possibility of malignity.
Bbbc.
Betrayal causes coarseness.
Bbbc.
No rule contains more than half the truth.
Bbac.
The technological society makes children lonely, because there are no human values in technology.
BBB.
Innocence is spiritual virtue.
BBB.
No freedom without innocence.
BaB.
One is often inocent, when one is unconscious about it.
BB.
The discrepancy of innocence is belief in science.
BBB.
Wisdom and innocence cohere infrangibly.
Ba.
Personality is innocence of the soul.
Bb.
As soon as the language touches the innocence, the escape has begun.
Bb.
The innocence must not be consumed by reality.
BBB.
The testimony of Life is The Testament of Innocence. (Tractatus Philosophicus Innocentiae).
Ba.
Spiritual life has its source in innocence.
BB.
Innocence contains no compromises.
Ba.
As soon as you act consciously, you are guilty.
Bbb.
Innocent is only he, who experiences for the first time.
Bba.
Cynicism is total guilt.
Bab.
The nature of innocence is spontaneity and intuition.
Bab.
Innocence does not open the gate to purity.
Bbb.
Intuition is the nuclear of innocence -- logics kills it.
Bba.
Spiritual life is conditional on innocence. If not so, it is mendacity.
Baa.
If we infringe the innocence, we are conscious of the building of our own I, which then is the illusion of innocence.
Bacc.
Sexuality should go no further, than the innocence allows. If it does, it is no longer sexuality.
Bacc.
Even in sin Man is searching for innocence.
Bbb.
Ignorance is the best basis for innocence; it is not its presupposition.
Bba.
Conventions make us believe, that we secure the innocence. Thereby we make ourselves guilty, especially when we are not conscious of it.
Bbb.
The pattern of our life dwells in us from before conception; therefore, we are unguilty, unless we are not true to this decision.
Babb.
Innocence is not only for children. For children it is straight necessity -- for adults it is something you have to choose as the best possibility of all.
BbbHc.
Genuine humanism has its source in honest listening. This listening is rooted in respect for every fellow being as an independent, subjective creature. Pedagogics must have its basis here in order to create a creative environment, in which every single child can flourish. Pedagogics of Flourishment. If you listen pedagogically, it takes power from your own subjectivity, from one's own I. I have been working within this framework without knowing, that I long before had broken the border. I am left with a desire of self-destruction, which by many is understood as an instinct of life. I doubt this, but perhaps there is a fragment of innocence in this doubt?
Bbbb.
We betray eachother all the time -- we steal eachother's innocence. Therefore, violence is spreading.
Ba.
As the light shines in the darkness, the freedom of innocence shines in the diabolic darkness of systematizing.
Baa.
Institutionalism makes us forget the innocence and the guilt. This confuses us and makes us abject.
Bab.
To put questions to Life and Being is the necessary innocence, If there were an answer, innocence would turn into guilt.
Bdd.
Is it so, that the older you get, the stronger guilt you feel? The target of experience is innocence in a new framework. Longing of the soul.
Bad.
The knowledge you search or find yourself, keeps you in the innocence.
Bb.
What is experienced as guilt, is often just innocence. Language and words are either preyed on by Christianity or freudianism. Innocence is purity in relation to thought and situation. This purity is destroyed, if institutional thinking and institutional situations take power. Objective or collective innocence does, therefore, not exist.
Bd.
Wondering is innocence -- knowledge contains the possibility of becoming guilty. Knowledge in itself is not negative, but it bears a risk of becoming guilty.
Be.
Guilt is not a state you can work yourself away from. It is the spiritual centre.
Philosophy C
CccH.
Do not let philosophy slip away. It can teach you to differ between virtuality and reality and between information and knowledge. Let philosophy come to the children, and do not hinder them.
CBcd.
Spirit is to let the innocence be part of the consciousness. Children possess this capability, but we destroy it, because our target is the conscious consciousness.
CHbc.
Philosophy talks to the child in us, because philosophy is wondering. Therefore, philosophy for children is also for adults -- and therefore, there must be philosophy in any education: to keep the innocence, the innocently questioning to Life and existence. This is exactly why philosophy must never be systematized or institutionalized. No childhood without philosophy -- no philosophy without childhood. Listen, you people out there: This is the final message: switch off the systematizing work and let the innocence live. Philosophy IS innocence.
Cdda.
Grundtvig (Danish theologian) made the Danes aphilosophical. Not until now, there is a change in the right direction.
Cb.
Philosophy is narcotics for thirsty, rationality-burdened souls.
Cb.
All thinking is intuitive.
Cb.
Politics and theology are philosophical distortion.
CbaH.
Working with philosophy can hopefully help people to a new optimism. This is one of the most profound reasons for philosophy for children.
Cba.
Far too many children think apocalyptically. Philosophy must come into their lives earlier and earlier.
CC.
Ethics dwells in the memory of the globe.
CC.
Ethics is global -- with basis in localism.
CbaH.
Ethical development can only take place, if we learn to understand creatively the basis of the original principles.
CC.
Pragmatism and utilitarism are eating us up. We need a new codex.
CCa.
Positivism is the opposite of metaphysics.
CCa.
Objectivity is no guarantee for absolute truths.
Cbab.
Digital information is a threat to philosophy, which gives us the basis for knowledge.
Cbab.
Metaphysics is a summary of the concepts, which describe or intimates the relations between existence and what sustains it.
CC.
Following systematical thinking, good and evil are discrepancies. But good and evil do not relate to eachother, but ARE eachother. (Nijas).
C.
Philosophy is elucidation of, what we already know. Therefore, philosophy is art.
CB.
Philosophy is the poetry of spirituality, if it is metaphysics.
C.
If philosophy becomes conventional, it will die.
C.
Philosophy gives safety against barbarism, but only if it is understood as metaphysics.
Ca.
Philosophy is silence, when everything else is speaking. Silence is a language, too.
CaH.
Being free of compulsion, philosophy must fight against cynicism in
CH.
Philosophy should work with the near things of everyday life and stay away from the great, massive objective problems. Therefore, philosophy for children is deeper and more existential than systematic philosophy.
CC.
Philosophy is innocence, as long as it works quetioning and not-ascertaining: if it is pure metaphysics.
Caa.
Philosophy must not be a servant for science.
CaH.
Philosophy must ensure free, informal dialogue.
Caa.
Love of wisdom (philosophy) is love of innocence.
CabH.
Cynicism takes the soul from the innocence. It undermines the emotions and consumes the spirit. Only philosophical dialogue can regain our innocence.
CaB.
Logics leads to institutionalism, but we do not know.
CaH.
History must be comprehended philosophically and not chronologically.
CabH.
Cyberspace must relate to philosophy; otherwise it takes the power from us.
CH.
Philosophical dialogue is a mirror of the eternal, innocent world of thought.
Culture D
Dbb.
Catch the innocence. It is always the necessary possibility.
Dbb.
Knowing yourself, you pity yourself first and subsequently you pity others. This universal pity leads to love.
Dbba.
Artists and children share the same spirit.
Dbba.
Keep your children away from the institutions!
Dcc.
Theatre is never political -- not even political theatre. It is always philosophical. And so is literature.
Dca.
You cannot defend yourself against valuelessness.
Dccaa.
There is not far from the poor areas of
D.
Psychology betrays.
Da.
We are born to freedom, not with the need for it.
D.
Even the living word is dying.
D.
Depart yourself from fundamentalism.
Daa.
Posthumousness can become a form of life.
D.
The globe has a memory. It dwells in the amino acids, which are in our body, too. Therefore, it will go wrong the day, amino acids will be used in computers.
DbB.
Keep distance to your own world in order that it will not take your power.
DH.
Can one obtain innocence, when it first has been broken? Yes, by pushing calculation aside and by doing everything to be together with other people within the framework of innocence. Listen more, than you speak. Search more, than you clarify. Open yourself more, than you defend yourself. You are not the only person with thoughts and emotions. Innocence is sharing all this with others.
Daa.
Pessimism is necessary, if you want to relate to and see Truth.
Daa.
We possess scientific and institutional dispositions. Hence the humanistic calamity.
DaC.
The future contains an omen of fundamentalism, because we become a-philosophical.
Daa.
Modern people have no hope and bring cynicism into the future. The children possess it already.
DaH.
Virtuality threatens to break down our experience of reality. Even very young children are virtually oriented.
DaH.
The present time exists for the sake of the future.
DabcH.
Perhaps the meaning of our existence is the future.
DabH.
Everything has roots in the past and points into the future. The present moment does not exist.
DaC.
The ecological crisis has its source in logics.
Dab.
What you do now will be fulfilled in the humaneness of the future.
DaC.
The coming society will consider information as knowledge. This can only lead to catastrophe.
DC.
All scholarly character must be avoided.
DB.
Systems and scientific possibilities take the innocence from us.
DaB.
The sciences give us objectivity and with it the distance. In that way we are deprived of our innocence.
D.
If ethics and science cannot be concomitant, science must retreat.
Daa.
Humanism is subjective and therefore all-embracing.
Theology E
E.
Christianity is for others -- not for oneself.
Ea.
The Church as institution is theology on rails.
Ea.
Theology destroys faith -- metaphysics is its nourishment.
EE.
Theology consumes faith and makes it conscience-stricken.
Eb.
Theology suffocates the ecosophy.
Eaa.
The paradox is, that secularizing leads to eschatology -- without theologians seeing it.
Ea.
Religious dogmas make faith inferior.
Ebba.
In the daily life the ethical standards are valid, but the passion of faith are sometimes challenged, and then the ethical standards are rescinded. Is that right? (Ea.).
Ea.
The dogmas attack you from behind, pinioning you. Beware!!
Ea.
The dogmas are all made by Man, and therefore not eternal truths.
Eaa.
The New Testament is a portrayal of the work of Jesus in order to cancel the dogmas.
Eaa.
The dogmas might be a way to a deeper understanding of faith, but never a goal.
Eaa.
Faith is always subjective, never institutional or built on dogma.
Eba.
Does faith contain a possibility to a deeper comprehension of ethical relations? Yes, if faith is new every day.
Ea.
If faith and ethics do not belong together, one of them is false.
Eaba.
Perhaps the concept faith does not exist -- at least not as something final, you can achieve once and for all. Faith is always only a possibility. Not even likelihood.
Eaa.
Christian and non-Christian ethics has the same capacity; only motivation is different.
Ebba.
When the huge flocks of starlings all of a sudden change direction, heading towards the sun, it is God thinking.
Ea.
Hymns are interpretation of faith. But you cannot interpret faith.
Ebbc.
I believe, that God wonders all the time. This is his intervention.
EaCH.
Lutheran Christianity kills -- Catholic Christianity stimulates, because Catholicism recognizes philosophy.
Ebc.
Why do saved Christians always look so empty-headed, and why do philosophers stay wise? Is the reason, that philosophy does not redeem, but creates?
Ea.
Christianity and humanism should not be discrepancies.
Ebbd.
Again I lost my faith. (Bergeyk,
EEE.
Perhaps the dogmas are there to protect the mystery?
EH.
Are religion and science discrepancies? I cannot answer the question.
Children F
Fa.
To be a child is to live in a glass globe, which will be shattered.
F.
Children give us their confidence. Innocence means to receive it uncompromisingly.
FCH.
Innocence is the spiritual freedom, which we have to secure that our children do not loose.
F.
Do not ever take your child out of the kingdom of innocence!
Fa.
Spiritual violence against children is to take the spiritual freedom from them.
Fa.
Lonesome children never develop a cynical personality. Or do they?
Fa.
If cynicism comes into children's thinking, it is dangerous.
Faa.
Already when you are ten, you have fled into cynicism, which might bear the stamp of innocence, if consciousness is not present.
FabH.
Children live in the world of innocence. Adults make them guilty. Loosely, this is called upbringing and education.
FbaCH.
If you discover, that your child tries to find its identity in virtuality, you have to know, that its morality and soul is in danger, and therefore, you have to intervene with philosophical initiatives.
FaCBH.
Children must learn to connect their emotions with the basic spiritual concepts, in order that they will be able to understand their environments and comprehend themselves. This will give them identity and make the art of reading easier.
FaCH.
When a child questions, the answer must be innocent.
Fab.
When I hand over knowledge to a child, it is an act of innocence. When the child receives, it receives in innocence. Therefore!!
Fab.
Only through advising a child I find myself.
Faba.
Happy only, when I am amongst children.
Fabc.
I am only able to find my identity together with a child. Being together with adults I have none.
FCH.
Go to the children and become wise.
FaH.
Children's development must have its basis in their own possibilities and not in adults' ideologies.
Politics G
G.
Firmness in principles leads to a need for perfectionism. Then, we are far from Life!
G.
Politics makes us cynical, because political reality is artificial.
G.
To work with politics is unworthy.
GG.
Politics is jolty strategy. It is a catastrophe.
GGG.
In its utmost consequence politics can only lead to war.
GB.
Political work is the deepest guilt one can incur.
GaB.
Politics is spiritual cancer.
GCEa.
Politics is constricted interpretation of philosophical concepts. So is scientific studies in literature. Theology certainly the same.
GbB.
Power is the negative mirroring of innocence. Therefore, politics is inhumane.
Gc.
Political ethics does not exist.
Politics and ethics are contradictions.
GCa.
Politics and ethics are incompatible.
Politics is untrustworthy impotence.
Gab.
In itself politics is spiritual promiscuity.
GaDB.
Politics is a ticking bomb under humanity.
GbDa.
If liberalism becomes politics, it will die.
GbDb.
Social Democracy is inhumane, because it works for eliminating the differences, which make humanity rich.
Education H
HH.
Education is a pity for children.
Ha.
Traditional education takes the childhood from children. This was not, what Chresten Kold (Danish pedegog) wanted.
HH.
Schooling is attacking children.
HHa.
Every person is born with abilities, which last the whole life. These abilities must unfold and develop from the childhood. Upbringing and education must create possibilities for this. So upbringing and education mean to discover the children's gifts of grace and develop them.
HaB.
Enlightenment takes away our illusions.
HaB.
Mediation of knowledge must take place within the framework of innocence.
HH.
Pedagogic innocence is to teach, as if it took place for the first time. Mediation of knowledge must not make the students guilty, but let them stay in the universe of innocence. Here fiction and the narrative elements come in.
HHa.
Pedagogics and methodology must stay in the framework of innocence.
HaCB.
The narrative element must always twinkle in pedagogics for small children.
HaCB.
Narrative elements are close to mysticism.
HCa.
Education must be subjective on a metaphysical basis.
HBCa.
Real education must build upon connections between mysticism and metaphysics.
HaB.
Only if knowledge is mediated through narrative elements, the students' innocence is kept.
HHA.
All education must increase the child's independency and dignity. If this does not happen -- then close all schools!!!
HaBC.
The didactic patterns and models must always be adapted the thinking and the conditions of children and students.
HaBC.
Is it possible to reach ethics in a creative way in order to throw light on logical/ethical thinking from behind?
HaB.
Therapy must build on freedom, not on psychology!
HCC.
Art and philosophy must belong together to avoid pure cynicism.
HaBC.
Upbringing must be a protection against spiritual abuse. Upbringing is a sort of a spiritual immune defence.
HbB.
If we make mathematics a goal, a great deal of Life will escape us. We should not even exaggerate it.
HaC.
An hour in the classroom is a pulsation like a performance in a theatre. Firm, liturgical wefts promote the learning. The students must take part in creating this liturgy.
HHHa.
School is built on scientific premises: to effect objective truths. Therefore, it is developing badly and moves against its own destruction. With the introduction of EDB it is all too clear. Close all schools!! Or at least: change them completely. As they build on scientific premises, they move more and more away from humanity.
HaH.
Education must produce possibilities and simultaneously ripen the students spiritually, so they can choose the possibilities, which are right for themselves.
HHa.
Real teaching must be planned, so that children obtain subjective discoveries. Thus, education is a network of possibilities for ripening and comprehension.
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