This is a tweet i saw quite some time ago.
Here’s a passage from Keat’s letter elucidating the theory: “…what qualityI guess the more we get to know about Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism, the greater our negative capability. However, at the same time, things just gets scarier because you never know if all these is going to be a fallacy.
went to form a Man of Achievement especially in literature & which
Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean Negative Capability, that is when
man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any
irritable reaching after fact & reason.”
Keats felt that it was
great thinkers in particular (like poets, for example) who had the negative
capability to see that all life’s big questions can’t be resolved.
Sigh.
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