Saturday 30 September 2017

Friday 29 September 2017

Thursday 28 September 2017

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Tuesday 26 September 2017

Thought 585: The Christian from Troy


The Founding Poet of the Christian Era
can be regarded as being the French
Christian from Troy, Chrétien de Troyes,
the teller of the Round Table,
whereas the Founding Poet of the 
Classical Era is of course 
the Greek Homer, the teller
of the Trojan War.

Monday 25 September 2017

Thought 584: Economy v Ecology


Eco-nomy: normative householding.
Eco-logy: reasoned environmentalism.


Addendum: Geonomics

Geo-nomics: normative 
environmentalism.

Saturday 23 September 2017

Thought 582: French (Mother) + German (Father) = English (Child)


Français + Deutsch = English
Mère + Vater = Child

Friday 22 September 2017

Thought 581: The Internet as Apocalyptic Motor


The internet, it seems,
has enabled the 
Revelation
of all.

Indeed,
when everyone
disagrees on all the
basic facts, as the
internet has shown,
then power is revealed
to be the only measure.

Thursday 21 September 2017

Thought 580: Esoteric Wisdom with Mark Passio (3)—The Chakras as Planets



 Saturn = the root chakra


 Jupiter = the sacrum chakra


Mars = the solar plexus 


Earth-Moon = the heart chakra


Venus = the throat chakra


Mercury = the third eye chakra


Sun = the crown chakra

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Thought 579: Thinkers' Names in Sein und Zeit



Thinkers' names are italicised in the German
edition of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time
because authentic thinkers are heroes,
and their names stand for the outstanding.

Tuesday 19 September 2017

Thought 578: What We Hate in Others


What we hate in others 
is frequently a part of 
ourselves reflected
in them, be it our
higher or lower
nature.

Monday 18 September 2017

Thought 577: Self-Deconstruction


True deconstruction is self-deconstruction,
finding the hypocrisies, conceits, cruelties,
and contrivances in one's own worldview.

Thus, for example, my own worldview
compensates for the fact I am a weakling.

Sunday 17 September 2017

Thought 576: The Morality of Morality


Morality is 
not moral.

Morality 
is power.

What is a 
morality
therefore
worth?

How much
trust she
establishes
in her favour.

Saturday 16 September 2017

Thought 575: My Brand of Cruelty


My brand of cruelty
takes the form of
all that I reject
for the sake of
my preservation
and growth.


Addendum (1):
Torture

Torture is a function
of the will to power.

It forces the strength
of an order over
soneone through
cruelty.


Addendum (2):
The Saintly Ideal

The saintly ideal
is to exert cruelty
over oneself
rather than others.

Friday 15 September 2017

Thought 574: The Strife of Standpoints


Different standpoints that oppose each other
may all be in error and yet believed to
be true by their proponents.

Wednesday 13 September 2017

Thought 572: Esoteric Wisdom with Mark Passio (1)—Christianity


Christianity can be richly interpreted as a solar cult.

Tuesday 12 September 2017

Thought 571: Economy v Morality


Economy: a prescriptive apparatus
determining the worth, kind, and content 
of human endeavour, effort, and energy.

Morality: the decision as to whether
or not to think one's habituation
in self-transparency and care.

Monday 11 September 2017

Review 11: What Is Philosophy? by Giorgio Agamben


Now That Is What I Call Philosophical Epiphany
—A Review of What Is Philosophy? by Giorgio Agamben

This is one if not the best book of modern philosophy I have read. 

Do not be fooled by the title. 

This is not a prosaic answer to the question 'what is philosophy?' done by way of an accessible and ultimately sterile introduction. 

This is instead a ground-breaking investigation into the very possibility of philosophy as contained in the limits of language and its relationship to 'the things themselves'.

I say ground-breaking because my understanding of Plato's metaphysics—among other things—was hugely clarified in the few hours it took me to read this book.

Indeed, I was never enamoured with superficial interpretations of Plato's Theory of Ideas as being 'universals'. 

Agamben sets the record straight when it comes to Plato's (ontological) understanding of language, and points out where Aristotle misunderstood his master Plato in his own meditations on language.

Poetry, mathematics, modern science generally and, by the very end, music, also come into consideration in this book, particularly in their relationship to philosophy.

Like other great philosophical books of its kind, What Is Philosophy? hit me with mental epiphany after mental epiphany. 

However, translating the text's esoteric and tangent-rich argumentation into layman's terms for the benefit of everyday understanding can only come across as daft, however pretentious of me this may sound.

But that need not be so surprising. 

We would not paraphrase a poem into everyday spoken language and expect it to retain its artistic magic would we?

Anyway this late opus by Giorgio Agamben earns an easy five stars from me.