The past must be narrated, the present cognized, the future intimated. (Schelling)
Hegelian dialectic cognizes the past.
The past is not a point in time, but an ekstases. A “reaching-out”. The past is no less “present” than the present, it is simply present in a different way (as recollected, as remembered).
The past must be narrated because this [...]
Archive for June, 2008
What’s wrong with Hegel
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, beginning, writing on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Milan’s Photography
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My friend the public servant also happens to be an excellent photographer, and he has recently compiled a page of his photographic work from the last seven years. It is best viewed as a slideshow.
Questions for Life
Posted in Body Phenomenology, Philosophy, beginning, writing on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A) What are we doing when we retrieve Ancient Philosophy?
B) How does the answer to A differ from what we are doing when we use common sense, everyday ready-made notions?
Provisional answer: A and B are seperated by the possesing/lacking of what we call awareness, having-one’s self, authenticity, consciousness, intentionality.
2) Freedom is the retrieve which is [...]
Thinking Geo-Engineering more broadly
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Technology, writing on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m starting to become more and more convinced by the geo engineering prerogative. Conservation is too ecological, romantic, pastoral. The Nazi response to modern technology is to keep doing it while we privileged the pastoral. The US response has been to keep doing it while regulating it and establishing parks. Both these methods suffer the [...]
What’s Wrong with the cash for old cars program
Posted in Capitalism, Ethics, Pragmatics, Technology on June 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The government has recently announced that they will institute a program whereby people who own old “polluting” cars can trade them for cash and transit tickets, or more cash if they spend it on zero emissions transportation.
Sounds good, but it isn’t – for two reasons. First reason – it conflagrates (and thereby increases public miscromprehension [...]
Congress 2008 Recap
Posted in Philosophy, beginning on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On the whole, an excellent week. Highlights included the CPA workshop on Urban Philosophy, and the “Back to the Things Themselves” seminar and workshop with the EPTC. Lowlights included everything else to do with the CPA, and some of the Heidegger talks at EPTC.
The largest highlight though, was meeting other people who are engaged in [...]
