Religious estrangement from earthly life mirrors the adventure’s fragmentary character
Evidence
When our earthly career strikes us as a mere preliminary phase in the fulfillment of eternal destinies, when we have no home but merely a temporary asylum on earth, this obviously is only a particular variant of the general feeling that life as a whole is an adventure. … Like a dream, it gathers all passions into itself and yet, like a dream, is destined to be forgotten; like gaming, it contrasts with seriousness, yet, like the va banque of the gambler, it involves the alternative between the highest gain and destruction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 474
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Adventures are remembered as dreamlike and as happening to someone else — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 465; The adventure and the artwork share a self-contained integral form — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 467; Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 466 (+7 more)
Related
- Adventures are remembered as dreamlike and as happening to someone else (similarity 0.84)
- Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries (similarity 0.83)
- The novel form’s secular individualism resists being filled with transcendental belief (similarity 0.83)
- The adventure and the artwork share a self-contained integral form (similarity 0.82)
- Adventure as a form of experience belongs essentially to youth, not old age (similarity 0.81)
- A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms (similarity 0.81)
- Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms (similarity 0.80)
- Modern religiosity persists after its supernatural objects are excised (similarity 0.80)
- Life as a whole can be perceived as an adventure from a higher standpoint (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Religious observance rather than worldly struggle can drive novelistic transformation
#complicates(0.50) - Faith offers an understanding of life that contrasts with rational knowledge.
#corroborates(0.50) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 118 - Modern religiosity persists after its supernatural objects are excised
#corroborates(0.45) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 864 - A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms
#complicates(0.40) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852 - Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms
#complicates(0.40) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 865