Piano 37: Poppy

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Piano 36: Bobbing

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Piano 35: Wishful

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Piano 34: Riverflow

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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.

Thought 584: Economy v Ecology

Eco-nomy: normative householding.

Eco-logy: reasoned environmentalism.

Addendum: Geonomics

Geo-nomics: normative 

environmentalism.

Thought 583: Credit—In Money We Trust

Credit is a system of trust 

expressed in monetary terms.

I have written many blog posts on money 

and the money issue generally. 

Here are the majority of them 

listed in chronological order, 

from the earliest to the latest. 

Thought 1: Truthfulness and Money

Thought 67: Money

Thought 78: Money as Technology

Thought 92: Money and Goods

Thought 122: Jobs and Money

Thought 128: Money and Moneye

Thought 136: Money as Collective Consciousness

Thought 180: Money for Apaths, Moneye for Empaths

Thought 196: The Ridiculous Nature of Speculative Markets

Thought 229: How to Enslave

Thought 252: Money as Satan's Currency

Thought 288: Carrot and Stick

Thought 295: Spiritual Weatlh

Thought 340: Position on the Money Issue

Thought 354: Lyric Analysis—One Vision

Thought 371: Black Magic as Inversion

Thought 386: Money's Liberating Enslavement

Thought 397: No Money in Philosophy

Thought 428: Anti-Conformity as Hypocrisy?

Thought 506: Robin Hood

Thought 515: 5usiness 1s 5usiness

Thought 528: Does the Liberation of Money Liberate?

Thought 565: Ethos for Saving Money

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

Français + Deutsch = English

Mère + Vater = Child

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 exertion is revealed

to be the only measure.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

More properly

speaking, 

morality is

a system of

cruelty, for it

judges, 

reprimands,

and seeks revenge.

In the end,

morality passes

sentence on life

because life is

a system of

cruelty, and

no one 

wants

that.

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 exert.

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.

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.

Thought 573: Esoteric Wisdom with Mark Passio (2)—Three Modes of Reflection

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

Christianity can be richly interpreted as a solar cult.

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.

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.