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Perhaps philosophy shows most forcibly and persistently how much Man is a beginner. Philosophizing ultimately means nothing other than being a beginner. - Heidegger, 1928
"My life is a river, and I am a boat being borne along the current," he told me. "I cannot relate to my life as a story, as a sequence of events, because I cannot get off the boat in order to see where I am. I do not see myself as moving forward or going backward." I asked him whether he believed in musical progress, in the idea of an avant-garde. He vigorously shook his head. "I do not know what this word 'progress' means, at least in the area of art. Progress in science can certainly be mea...
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That's over seven times around the circumfrunce of the earth. According to measurements of tree art signed by a 30m tall Douglas-fir, this is how far its twiglets travel per year. This from a clever study by Nalini M. Nadkarni. For more information visit: www.terry.ubc.ca/index.php...-entities/
"To speak of beings as phainomena is at least to imply the locus of their meaningful appearance, the horizon wherein that meaningfulness is articulated. Beings as phainomena are correlative to modes of "awareness" (Vernehmen) in the broadest sense, that is, to a legein or noein that is revelatory of the phainomenon as what and how it is. Without logos, no isness. The uniqueness of man as "the living being who has logos" (zoion logon echon) consists in the fact that his essence is the locus of...
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Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being. -- G. W. F. Hegel, "Preface" to Phenomenology of Spirit
Spirit is spiritted into being...
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From all that has been suggested, it should be clear that one cannot read Nietzsche in a haphazard way; that each one of his writings has its own character and limits; and that the most important works and labors of his thought, which are contained in his posthumous writings, make demands to which we are not equal. It is advisable, therefore, that you postpone reading Nietzsche for the time being, and first study Aristotle for ten to fifteen years. (What is Called Thinking, p. 73)
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Arvo Part on Time, Life, and the pitfall of Progress
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"My life is a river, and I am a boat being borne along the current," he told me. "I cannot relate to my life as a story, as a sequence of events, because I cannot get off the boat in order to see where I am. I do not see myself as moving forward o...
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186,474 miles per year
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That's over seven times around the circumfrunce of the earth. According to measurements of tree art signed by a 30m tall Douglas-fir, this is how far its twiglets travel per year. This from a clever study by Nalini M. Nadkarni. For more informatio...
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The Elementary Particles" a novel by Michel Houellebecq
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"A post-philosophical philosophical novel, or, an introduction to the 21st Century"
Maybe it's about the last man before the trans-human.
Nevermind, just read it.
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Ceci n'est pas Derrida
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"To speak of beings as phainomena is at least to imply the locus of their meaningful appearance, the horizon wherein that meaningfulness is articulated. Beings as phainomena are correlative to modes of "awareness" (Vernehmen) in the broadest sense...
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Tarrying with the Negative
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Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itsel...
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"A post-philosophical philosophical novel, or, an introduction to the 21st Century"
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