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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Who Cut the Light?!

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If, as Derrida says, there is nothing beyond the text, then language is a closed system that can never get beyond itself to the reality it i...
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Thursday, April 25, 2024

A Few Words About Words

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Language . there is no philosophy without it, inasmuch as it lies at the basis of all thought; on the other hand, philosophers will be seduc...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Irreducibles

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Irrespective of the content, how is philosophy even possible? What facts on the ground and principles in the clouds presuppose and justify i...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Waiting for the Miracle or Something

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That's it: no more posts until further gnosis, or until there is a spontaneous eruption of aggravated logorrhea. I don't want to wri...
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Monday, April 22, 2024

Language is a Battlefield

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Apologies for this meandering post. Just flipping through After Enlightenment  in search of the seed of a post, and this sentence stands out...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Those Who Do Not Escape History are Doomed to Progress

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I'm well into the book -- After Enlightenment -- but it's a bit repetitive, so I'm not sure there's enough new material wit...
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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Shedding Meta-Light on the Enlightenment

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So, this Hamann fellow, despite all the never before seen light illuminating reality for the first time, prophesied that the Enlightenment, ...
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Friday, April 19, 2024

The Meta-Critical Post-Secular Trans-Enlightenment Approach

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In a post last week we mentioned the enigmatic 18th century German thinker Georg Hamann, whose baffling oeuvre is peppered with allusions, r...
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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Sola Meta-scripture?

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 "There is," writes the Thomist philosopher Walter Farrell, an infinite chasm between the unspeakable things that are too base, to...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Self-Help and the Devil's Menu

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Speaking of integration around the good -- and the impossibility of integration around its converse -- the following words popped into my he...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

God Needs a Few Integrated Men?

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Any shared experience ends in is a simulacrum of religion. -- Dávila  The meaning of that one is not self-evident, partly because the meani...
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Monday, April 15, 2024

Integration and Presence

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Still slogging my way through  Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering . If it hadn't set me back thirty bucks, I ...
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Sunday, April 14, 2024

The More Things Change

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To write for posterity is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow. It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing. Even if no one r...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

The Structure of Scientific Retrogressions

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As part of my self-imposed continuing education requirement, I read a book called  Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of ...
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Friday, April 12, 2024

Linking, Verticality, and Symmetry

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Because we are so immersed in it, it's hard to say exactly what time is. In this regard it is like the words "experience," ...
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