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  • Reintegration

    Dry appears wetcold, hothard, softsleepy, awakedead, living Emptiness fulfilled:Necessity ceases  Continue reading

  • Whatever Etc. #9: Focusing on Situatedness (Cont)

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  • Textimony 20120505

    Our highest adaptation is that we need not be merely adaptive. Vital reason can detach from the drive to exist & we can flourish in LIBERTY. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120501

      Philosophizing requires a SINGULAR RESOLVE that awakens the contemplator to originary self-causation. No philosophizing is accidental. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120423

    Philosophizing experiments in possibilities that are not so much replies to what has been answered as invitations to discover what has yet to be asked. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120418

    “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.” ~ David Hume Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc #4

    Little more rambly because I am thinking of the direction I want to go but not sure which way I am going to leap. Comments and suggestions very much welcome. Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc #4

  • Speculative Realism Blog

    This looks like it could be an interesting blog to follow: SPECULATIVE HERESY I am digging this speculative realism stuff, even if it is beyond the full comprehension of my AnarchoCynical mind. 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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