Since I’m doing a lot of reading this term, I’ll probably be throwing out more quotes and less original writing. Here’s a bit about reason and power, with interesting connections to politics!
Kant spoke of “pure” reason and the “autonomy” of reason. But that is a dangerous abstraction, for reason is always already embedded in system of […]
Archive for October, 2007
Barabara Ehrenreich writes that the working poor are “the major philantropists of our society. They neglect their own childrenso that the children of others will be cared for; they live in sub-standard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices will […]
Here’s a thought that could—and likely should—be further developed, but I won’t do so: the thought being that life is much too interesting and varied to become overly specialized.
I’m not saying that specialization is all bad, or that I can even name the line where it becomes myopic, insular and just plain ridiculous. I’m just saying […]
I captured this moment which somehow says a whole lot (to me, anyways). As with any useful art, I won’t muddle it with an artist’s interpretation.
I did a lot of web design work for my school, St. Stephen’s University, over the summer. We recently unveiled a Student Media site for the creative and artistic types that
fill our school community to be able to share their creations with each other and everybody else on this internet thing.
So, go on over, be awed […]
Here’s a little nugget prompted by my current reading in philosophy: which is more fundamental, the noun or the verb?
Another way of asking this: are you a human being or a human becoming?
Let’s just say that I’m beginning to understand that the difference between these two has some massive implications for doing philosophy…
