Philosophy as a Way of Life
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For Consideration: Sales Pitching
Ideas are not offered for slow consideration anymore so much as they are offered for quick sale. That thought came to me this morning while watching a documentary. I don’t really think it matters what the film series was… this was… Continue reading
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Karl Jaspers as Interdisciplinarian
A very solid piece on the interdisciplinary nature of Jaspers’ psychopathology as well as the connection of his first great work on the embodied mind to his later existential and historical works. As the managing editor of the Oxford Handbook… Continue reading
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Occupying Space
A man should be so poor that he is not and has not a place for God to act in. To reserve a place would be to maintain distinctions. Meister Eckhart quoted in Merton, Thomas. Zen and the Birds of… Continue reading
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How Legalizing Psychedelics Creates a Healthy Competition with Organized Religion
Organized religion is almost always a monopoly. Legalization of mind opening substances would lead to a free market of ideas that dogmatic superstructures cannot survive. In a culture that prides itself on a bizarro academic sense of rationality, there is… Continue reading
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Charting more diffuse influences across time
My colleagues Adam Briggle, Robert Frodeman and Britt Holbrook continue their work on the philosophy of impact and the impact of philosophy… Today even the humanities are expected to have an impact. In the 2014 REF, for instance, philosophy formed… Continue reading
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Soundthropology: Eno and Graeber in Dialog
The 2014 Artangel Longplayer Conversation between Brian Eno and David Graeber took place 7pm, Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBpOXGLn_o Continue reading
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Primacy of Ethics over Metaphysics
From a consideration of the primacy of ethics in Dante’s The Banquet by Etienne Gilson in Dante the Philosopher (1948): …the Crystaline heaven, or Primum Mobile, ordains by its motion the daily revolution of all the other heavens, a revolution that enables them to receive and transmit… Continue reading
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The Authentic Human Behavior of Mad Men
This is, then, a hopeful ending, not just for Don, and for the other characters — all of whom reinvented themselves professionally and personally, and showed signs of having learned from past mistakes — but for America itself. Hopeful is… Continue reading
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Whatever, Etc. 0027: #Hyperhumanism under the Stoa
Sitting out on my porch pondering #transhumanism. Does this lead to something beyond humanity? Or just a logical conclusion of amping up our cravings… #hyperhumanism. Continue reading
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never stressing, all flows
Nameless, the Way does without naming. Not naming, it makes no plans. Making no plans, it never stresses. Never stressing, all flows. Continue reading
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Philosophy as Happening
Public philosophy for the Society of Control? Does this have impact? Despite the circus/rave structure of the event, what does it say that the dominant themes were Stoical? The mental marathon billed as “A Night of Philosophy” began in an… Continue reading
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The Psychology (and Philosophy) of ‘No Regrets’ – Pacific Standard
YOLO has essentially become the over-used watchword for every toxic manifestation of masculinity looking to throw off the crushing yoke of personal responsibility. But, at its core, YOLO is also the current manifestation of a fundamental human sentiment: I want… Continue reading
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Conversion not Improvement
I have ranted before about the cult of improvement in our society. Certainly, a lot of what compels Transhumanism is the search for ultimate improvement. But Kant–I believe rightly–speaks to why a principled existence is a converted life not an “improved” or… Continue reading
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Philosophers at large in the world
…for the most part… philosophers aren’t deploying their firm grasp of Kierkegaard in their private-sector work. Rather, it’s the skills that philosophers are trained in—critical thinking, clear writing, quick learning—that translate well to life outside of academia. As Zachary Ernst, a… Continue reading
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