Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Textimony 20120303

    Elucidating your path, uncertainty will precede all great change. Then comes courage followed by dedicated decision or fear followed by reactive retreat. Continue reading

  • Luciano Floridi visiting Denton

    I am very pleased that CSID has brought over this very interesting thinker, Luciano Floridi:  http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html He will be giving a couple of public lectures while here and also addressing a few classes. Here is a link for the two… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on Trollblog: Q: What about after you’ve destroyed philosophy, though? What about once trolling has destroyed everything but trolling itself…. leaving nothing but a desolate wasteland haunted by the howling winds and the ghosts of extinct disciplines. Is… Continue reading

  • Whatever, etc… An AnarchoCynic V-Log

    I do not want to be one of those who talks about what he is going to do only to never do it or only do it half-ass for a bit until I get bored. The world of education–both compulsory… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120301

    No slothful will bent to ugliness can ever harm the person whose Singular Mindfulness is set on Beauty. We may be tried but the GOOD will have the victory. Continue reading

  • Philosophizing as a Way of LIfe

    I do not believe that philosophizing is synonomous with what goes by the name of “philosophy” in the schools. The professions of scholarship, research, and instruction are outcroppings of critical philosophizing but hardly the ultimate expression. (See my Four Kinds… Continue reading

  • eDialog 20120225

    AJ: How can awareness come out of unity? KWB: When does the babe learn to speak? AJ: How did the language develop? KWB: Interesting problem because while it is generally by nature that we speak, no language in particular is more natural than… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120224

    “Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure but by natural necessity.” ~Benedetto Croce on the Aesthetic Philosophy of Giambatista Vico Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120222

    3 kinds of folks: Those that learn by reading, those that learn by observation, & those that have to pee on the electric fence to find out for themselves. Paraphrase of Will Rogers Continue reading

  • 4 Kinds of Sophists and the Hope of Philosophizing

    Philosophy is a way of life. It is not a trade nor is it a profession. The closest term would be vocation, a calling to live a certain way via profound commitment to an open (free) discovery of the world.… Continue reading

    4 Kinds of Sophists and the Hope of Philosophizing
  • Textimony 20120214

    Neither busy curiosity nor reactive reflection, MINDFUL CONTEMPLATION discloses immediately how now/here renders the ENCOMPASSING GOOD in a fractal glance. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120212b

    All life is slavery as none has full liberty yet struggles always already via incessant alteration between hope’s possibility & fear’s actuality. Let-go & LOVE. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120212a

    “I fancy that many people would arrive one day at wisdom if they did not believe themselves wise already.” ~Seneca Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120211a

    Contemplate the ENCOMPASSING GOOD in the mind’s eye, envision the Graceful Gateway of This Beautiful Order: Abandonment to a thankful thinking of things, Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120204b

    Let those unfamiliar with MINDFULNESS imagine, on the basis of all you hold dear to heart, what it must be like to encounter the Great Love, the ENCOMPASSING. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120204a

    The decisive soul of philosophizing: a resolute Don Quixote always already storming the Windmills of Possibility Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120202

    Existing where certainty is habitual rather than necessary, IF hides every next step. Yet leap, friend, into Life by this great Belief: Love & do as thou will! Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120129

    Latent & patent misogyny corrupts our society. Misandrony is no equalizing solution. Overcome the accident of your genitalia. Seek an androgynous MINDFULNESS.   Continue reading