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"Plato: we are governed by an erotic longing for the Good, and that we love or long for what we lack,
Heidegger: we are drawn toward Being as it withdraws: “we are drawing into what withdraws, into the enigmatic and therefore mutable nearness of its appeal”. The deepest philosophical insight recognizes that the mystery must “remain . . . veiled”, that man’s search for wisdom is incomplete and incomplet-able." — Apr 17, 2019 12:24PM
"Plato: we are governed by an erotic longing for the Good, and that we love or long for what we lack,
Heidegger: we are drawn toward Being as it withdraws: “we are drawing into what withdraws, into the enigmatic and therefore mutable nearness of its appeal”. The deepest philosophical insight recognizes that the mystery must “remain . . . veiled”, that man’s search for wisdom is incomplete and incomplet-able." — Apr 17, 2019 12:24PM
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"Plato you crazy: Chora ... as opening up a space into which qualities can be received so that particular things can come into being... is thus the “Nurse of Becoming.” The concept of space or place that is involved in this account—of space as the receptive and nurturing opening or “womb” in which things come to be—is one that is amenable to a more geometrical or mathematical account than the Aristotelian." — Apr 14, 2019 06:24AM
"Plato you crazy: Chora ... as opening up a space into which qualities can be received so that particular things can come into being... is thus the “Nurse of Becoming.” The concept of space or place that is involved in this account—of space as the receptive and nurturing opening or “womb” in which things come to be—is one that is amenable to a more geometrical or mathematical account than the Aristotelian." — Apr 14, 2019 06:24AM
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"Nosing for clues about Heidegger’s targets. This is illuminating:
It’s Aristurtle all the way down! 🐢" — Apr 13, 2019 08:31AM
"Nosing for clues about Heidegger’s targets. This is illuminating:
“it is the explicit rejection of ... the authority of Aristotle, that marks for Descartes, and for many of his contemporaries and successors, their own sense of their ‘modernity’.”
It’s Aristurtle all the way down! 🐢" — Apr 13, 2019 08:31AM
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
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“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.”
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.”
― Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
― Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
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