Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
Now that Feist is popular, she plays rock songs. Her previous record was full of sad, depressed love songs. But, conversely, in the old days she was a real rock star at her concerts, whereas today she’s much more controlled – perhaps the stress of fame? Whatever the reason, she just doesn’t let loose […]
Read More When Feist was a Rock StarIt is not the case that statement A is equivalent to statement B A) It is not the case that (it is a moral law to steal when you will not be caught.) B) It is the case that (it is a moral law not to steal when you will not be caught.) A tries […]
Read More Extremely short version of previous postPeople often read Kant as giving a principle of pure reason from which rational laws of pure practical reason can be deduced. From the moral imperative (which is categorical, not hypothetical, because it applies to people no matter the situation) which has three formulations, we certainly must be able to deduce determinate moral content. […]
Read More Are there laws of practical reason?The original “Warriors” film (opens in a new window) was made in New York in the late 1970s, and it’s refreshing to anyone become use to the current hollywood approach to violence. While the theme of the film is exceedingly violent, the portrayal is leniant and comical – you don’t witness the brutal violence. It’s […]
Read More The Warriors are backFlipping through “Walrus” today, I found a review of Charles Taylor’s new book: “A Secular Age”. Apparently, Taylor shifts the question concerning religion in the present context “away from whether belief in God or some higher power is reasonable to whether belief or unbelief are appropriate interpretations of one’s experience in the world”(71-72). This is […]
Read More What’s wrong with secularism todayThis morning I walked from my home at Spadina and Bernard to the PowerPlant gallery at Waterfront centre. The winter has not rescinded – wind and cold makes it feel more like late fall than early spring. The temperature has risen above zero, if only slghtly, and that’s a good thing – otherwise the windchill […]
Read More Waiting for the gallery to openThese are my new shoes. I threw out my old ones at the store (they were entirely worn out, hurt my feet, and I have another extra pair which likely hurt my feet less). They are rediculous! Yellow and gray – and they squish as you walk, it’s like walking on air. They are my […]
Read More Want to see something Crazy?Citing from the “Cogito” chapter of “Phenomenology of Perception”, my translation. It is already manifest that we can distinguish in ourselves between sentiments that are “true” and those which are “false”, so that all that is felt by us and in ourselves does not find itself on one plane of of existence or true in […]
Read More Merleau Ponty on Real and Illusory Love“Jet Fuel” is a coffee shop in the cabbagetown region of Toronto. Three things make it distinctive. a)Mixed coffee drinks (i.e. mocha, americano, etc…) come in pint glasses. b)Only espresso drinks (no drip, perculated or pressed coffee) c)It sponsors cycle racing. It’s excellent for a number of other reasons as well. It has an excellent […]
Read More Jet FuelIt is quite popular today to say that according to our scientific models, the world proceeds according to causal law. And therefore, either an interaction is caused, or it is random, and in either case human freedom fails to appear. This is something of a paradox, because the formulation of the defeat of freedom […]
Read More On Kant’s divergence from Plato
Only a Northern Song 