Hierarchy Index Cards - C
Card-C-05-16. Empathy. DEH: You have, in my terms, to realise them as P.H’s [picture heads] as things in themselves. This means less subjective, more objective treatment. It means you are humbler, and at the same time you know your object far more intimately. … you throb with every throb of his being. Yet this sympathy is not copying but being. God does not sympathise as Other (alone) but he is you in your joy & sadness. He makes you thus. So do you begin, in your sympathy, to take part in this creation of His. Observation, the humble objectivity that ’gets at what he is thinking’, turns out in the end to be finding yourself & growing, creating. Paradox. Opposites of objectivity & subjectivity unity.
Card-C-05-17 (contd) The important thing is to find the monad or, since monads aren’t discontinuous, the monadic stream, & insert yourself in that, the flow of the inner life. What has no inner life is unreal by itself & real only as belong in & to some inner life. Thus a chair, a colour, animal life etc, must be caught up into monadic reality. The things you unite, as C [Caird] says, have unity in your thought, but not necessarily their own unity. In other words, the things to know are real things, ‘persons’, things capable of being loved because they are persons. For love is truest knowledge. You cannot love abstractions: you cannot know abstractions as you know concrete persons.
Index Card C-05
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