philosophy

  • alright

    Everything is alright. Every thing is alright. Everything is all, right? Every thing is all: right. Related articles Entelechy – Cosmos – Event (keithwaynebrown.com) The Fool Falls! (throughthevortex.org) Who is Rumi? (responsiveuniverse.wordpress.com) Infinity (turbulentortoise.wordpress.com) Away with the Way (concordiadiscordata.wordpress.com) Shamanism… Continue reading

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  • Hermes

    Little lean, wing-footed god How this big fat hobbling man Found himself in your service? Guide of souls at life’s end Messenger of divine will Lover of Desire herself… Send me some dream from ether, Hash me a smoky idea,… Continue reading

    Hermes
  • Authority and Laxity

    Continuing the translations of the incomplete manuscripts of the middle-years of Li-Dan‘s long life… ———————- In the  morning of the last day he walked beneath the Yingke Pines, the Lord Māotóuyīng, Baronet of Wēishìjì, turned with purpose, yea even concern, to… Continue reading

    Authority and Laxity
  • Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to… Continue reading

    Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
  • 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

    Demostrophe
  • The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science

    My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is… Continue reading

    The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
  • Daodejing 28

    #28* Knowing power, abiding in modesty; like a stream under Heaven. Like a stream under Heaven- never abandoning eternal virtue, returning at last to purity. Knowing white, abiding in black; like this order under Heaven. Like this order under Heaven-… Continue reading

    Daodejing 28
  • Daodejing 26

    #26* Heaven is the root of lightness. Tranquility masters recklessness. Therefore the Sage travels all day careful to abandon nothing. Even in the face of luxury, like the swallow he flies undistracted. Why is the King with 10,000 chariots reckless… Continue reading

    Daodejing 26
  • Radiant Living

    My good brother, Andrew J. Taggart, continues his series of meditations on Radiant Living. I highly recommend Andrew’s work. He is a diligent, insightful counselor who is committed to reinvigorating the notion of philosophy as a way of life. Related… Continue reading

    Radiant Living
  • Daodejing 24

    #24* A show-off never learns A know-it-all never shines A braggart never achieves A boaster never gets ahead All of this is most unnecessary Seen from the viewpoint of the Way The person on the Way avoids all of this… Continue reading

    Daodejing 24
  • An Ontological Understanding of Dialogue in Education « Learning Change

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This dissertation develops an ontological understanding of dialogue that is then used to reconsider the forms and purposes of schooling. Employing the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the work departs from the… Continue reading

    An Ontological Understanding of Dialogue in Education « Learning Change
  • Whatever, Etc. 00023

    If you have a spare 25 minutes, I continue forward with thinking about the Loving Struggle. The text that I quote at length in this talk: I cannot accomplish this communicative struggle by the rational force of argument, but neither can… Continue reading

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  • A Frank Prayer

    Oh thou endless Great Way, broad and flowing in profound tranquility, Where hatred happens, let there now be love; Where weakness occurs, fortitude; Where doubt arises, faithfulness; Where despair crushes, hopefulness; Where darkness encroaches, enlightenment; Where sadness lingers, joyfulness. Encompassing… Continue reading

    A Frank Prayer
  • The Tenth Dimension

    So, there is a lot of mind blowing thinking out in the realm of contemporary physics. Those of us who know the history of philosophy are not afraid to call a good deal of this metaphysics. Certainly, it is the… Continue reading

    The Tenth Dimension
  • AI, or Awakened Intelligence

    unfueled – uncompromised – undefined – unconditioned – unbounded : mindful #liberation : #nirvana — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) March 1, 2013 Let me make this over the top claim: “Artificial Intelligence” is actually what we do on a regular… Continue reading

    AI, or Awakened Intelligence
  • Originally posted on Footnotes2Plato: Latour is introduced by professor of physics Wilson Poon, who publicly confesses to being a great admirer of Latour’s work. Latour, thinly veiling how tired he is of the “Science Wars,” thanks him for the “rare… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: Philosophical Awakening This e-book, which is now available to order, is entitled Awakening to Philosophical Life: Essays Personal and Impersonal. It was completed at the end of February of 2013 and is meant to be… Continue reading

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  • R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers

    As those who have been visiting here for a while will know, the original address for this site was karljaspers23. My mentor, Richard M. Owsley, was a student of Prof. Dr. Jaspers. To say that Jaspers had an impact on… Continue reading

    R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers