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concept:futuristic-archaic-feelingFuturistic-Archaic Feeling
The quality of something deeply true that seems both ancient and ahead of its time, troubling because it reveals the I which we are uncomfortable facing.
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- The I (Great Self)associated_withThe transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
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- The experiential measure of life; a living process is congruent with and governed by feeling, and the feeling a place presents is the measure of its life.
- Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
- The subjective, often shared, impression that some things have more life than others—experienced with waves, lakes, gold, people, buildings.
- Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
- The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
- The foundational philosophical question (from Nagel) that motivates the paper's empirical investigation