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September 21, 2016

Hesiod’s Chaos and Laozi’s Way

PHIL 1060, Monday nights, 19 Sep 2016

Grounding ourselves in how the ancient Greeks and Chinese thought about the order of things. First, we discussed the basics of Hesiod’s mythopoeic worldview as a procreative cosmogony. Then, we moved over to talk about the insights of Laozi’s poetry concerning the Dào. All of this was to allow for a discussion of how we tend–if we are not careful–to make narratives of orderly exchange which privilege our psycho-social control of reality.

tumblr_mymp4kwp4z1qced37o1_1280 — “A point in chaos: Once established, the grey point leaps into the realm of order.” Paul Klee from his *Notebooks: Vol 1, The Thinking Eye*.

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

Categories: Introduction to Philosophy, Perennial Philosophy, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Whatever

Tags: chaos, cosmogony, daoism, Hesiod, Homer, Laozi, olympian gods

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