Martin Heidegger
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Existentialism Course, Summer 2017
When I do lectures in this class, I will post the audio files here. Doing this lets students be a little more free to engage in the lecture without worry that they will miss taking notes on something important. It… Continue reading
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Prayer and Thinking
We began with me sharing some ideas about the connection between prayer and thinking. We discussed Poem 27 of the Dào Dé Jing along with some forays into Poem 1. Continue reading
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self conspiracy
“i” as useful designation like a storm front like a bright day changing temperaments one and then another always another forecaste now is here and then is there here is now and there is then no-thing stable enough to be… Continue reading
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For Jared
What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I?… Continue reading
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The Truth and the True
Jaspers and Heidegger appeal to me because I am a mystic who has had mystical experiences: spoken in Tongues, hung over the Abyss, fallen into ecstasy of Nothing, felt the Abiding Presence of the Other, heard the rushing Silence. Each… Continue reading
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▶ Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | YouTube
Louis C.K. is fast becoming the go-to philosophic comic. Why? Well, it’s a melancholy tale filled with despair and hope and a Bruce Springsteen song. Continue reading
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What’s Wrong With Business And The Economy | Business Insider
This sort of thinking is the very definition of what Martin Heidegger means by treating human beings or any kind of natural being as a “standing reserve.” …American corporations, which are richer and more profitable than they have ever been… Continue reading
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Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae
A colleague at Fordham University, Babette Babich, who I highly respect, has been updating her articles at academia.edu. Among these is the article linked below. As I have been posting a lot of my favorite paintings as well as some… Continue reading
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Withdrawing
Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading
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Demostrophe
I am playing at neologisms. That must mean I am reading Heidegger. Today’s entry in the Brown Book of Jargon… DEMOSTROPHE: the turning of the people as a group, the turning in the flow of power. I am coining this… Continue reading
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Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich
A most joyous thing to read for an old anarchocynic like myself… But ‘know thyself” works dialectically in an extraordinary way to make such sundering readings redundant: “for Thales, knowledge of the heavens and self-investigation could proceed directly parallel to… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Rita Dekšnytė – Sporto psichologijos konsultantė, mindfulness mokytoja, ACT praktikė: It’s getting clear to me now why every research methods book talking about phenomenology suggest the method that should actually be called descriptive phenomenology. In this post… Continue reading
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The Leisure to be Your Own Self
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading
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More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive
Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see… Continue reading
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