o allsoalso the PhilosophicallPhilosophical SunneSun dosdoes with its shadow make a day, that is, light and night or darkenessedarkness, namely Latona or Magnesia, whose - Shadow Democritus teachethteaches, as appears in the third bookebook of his - Golden table at the beginingbeginning, must be extinguished and consumed by a fiery medicine.
Reminiscent of Plato's republic.
A shadow therefore and night is the privation or absence (as day on the - contrary is the irradiation and circumfusion) of the Solar light.
I am interested in how this might be get at a notion of private spheres that are separate from public life. I am interested in the relationship between the knowledge produced in these private spaces and wider knowledge production.
The SunneSun noeno bodyesbodies dense can penetrate, And soeso the adverse parts a shade create: Which, though it be of all things least settset by, Is much conducing to Astronomy
It is interesting how it seems as though the sun is given this position as impenetrable. The relationship between this idea and a form of knowledge that posits that the entire world is knowable and reducible to human natural science is an interesting one. I am also interested in the dialectic it posits between shade and sun.
he same - allsoalso were observdobserved in the PhilosophicallPhilosophical subject, whatsoever crudityescrudities and fæ=cesfeces appear, they are purged and taken away by their waters poured on, and the body is brought to great clarity and perfection. For all ChymicallChymical operations, as Calcination, Sublimation, Solution, Distillation, Descension, Coagulation, Fixa=tion, and the rest, are perfected by ablution alone
This is an interesting and seemingly new (at least in our context) articulation of subjectivity. We have yet to consider the discursive role of knowledge on human subjectivity. This quote encloses knowledge within the realm of human subjectivity as finite and transformative.