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  • Sartre and Camus in New York – NYTimes.com

    At Vassar he [Camus] gave a lecture on “The Crisis of Mankind” and was dazzled by the spectacle of “an army of long-legged young starlets, lazing on the lawn.” But he was preoccupied by what he thought of as the “American tragedy.” The tragedy of the students was that they…

  • Singing in the Dark Temple of Midnight

    I am here to sing thee songs. In this hall of thine I have a corner seat. In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose. When the hour strikes for thy silent worship at the dark temple…

  • “The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards…”

    I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me…

  • My favorite Venn Diagram… EVER!!!

  • I’ve been saying this. I am not a millionaire entrepreneur so I am glad to hear say it. Maybe if it is said by yet another member of the 1%, folks will go ahead and stop thinking wealthy people create jobs. Consumers create jobs.

  • Originally posted on coromandal: Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream. In the world of architecture and the built environment, wishful thinking is in the ascendent in direct proportion to the decline of relevancy and action.  We’re dreaming and…

  • Response to lucymillsonlife

    EuroAmerican Christianity has always suffered from this problem since it first sprang up in North Africa. It is called the Donatist heresy. While Donatism mostly concerned whether a priest needed to be pure of heart/deed in order to administer the sacraments, I think it can be extended out to cover…

  • Philosophy or Sophistry?

    Romano’s newer (broader?) definition of philosophy fits my own definition of sophistry (click here to read).  ‘America the Philosophical,’ by Carlin Romano – NYTimes.com.

  • The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

    I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.” This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing attend to the world & focus your situation in order…

  • Bankers and the neuroscience of greed | Ian Robertson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

    While power in moderate doses can make people smarter, more strategic in their thinking, bolder and less depressed, in too-large doses it can make them egocentric and un-empathic, greedy for rewards – financial, sexual, interpersonal, material – likely to treat others as objects, and with a dulled perception of risk.…

  • Originally posted on coromandal: http://youtu.be/bOJL7WkaadY It turns out there’s a long tradition in philosophy and spirituality that’s about embracing negativity, about easing up on all this positive thinking, and learning instead to bathe in insecurity and uncertainty and failure, to confront your mortality and to find the enormous potential for…

  • Turing’s three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information

    In this article, I outline the three main philosophical lessons that we may learn from Turing’s work, and how they lead to a new philosophy of information. After a brief introduction, I discuss his work on the method of levels of abstraction (LoA), and his insistence that questions could be…

  • Originally posted on What is it like to be a woman in philosophy?: This is not about what it’s like to be a woman in philosophy. I suspect it is about what it’s like to be a human in philosophy. I am a successful philosopher in well-respected department, with a…

  • Together Alone Coming Down Later

    After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome, to alleviate turbulent suffering regrets of disconnection, leaping despondent from…

  • Textimony 20120630

    “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~Rabindranath Tagore

  • Whatever, Etc., 0017: For John & Martine

  • Originally posted on The Phoenix and Olive Branch: Might as well quit now, kid. Your classmate is already doing Advanced Calculus. Dear Baby Boomers and Generation X, Quit telling us we’re not special. Believe us, we bloody well know. Earlier this month, Wellesley high school teacher David McCullough, Jr., delivered what was…

  • Originally posted on Drunks&Lampposts: A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz If you are interested in this data set you might like my latest post where I use it to make book recommendations. This one came about because I was searching for a data…