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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
“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
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Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
―
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
The houses are all gone under the sea.
The dancers are all gone under the hill.”
― Four Quartets
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
The houses are all gone under the sea.
The dancers are all gone under the hill.”
― Four Quartets
“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
“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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