The academic takes a pecuniary interest in peculiar ideas, makes a university of the universal, a corporation of the corpus.
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
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Language, Justice, and Music
"Must [the metaphysician] not begin," asks Ayer, "as other men do, with the evidence of his senses? And if so, what valid process of reasoning can possibly lead him to the conception of a transcendental reality?"
Must he?
Could one not begin with the facility* of our motions, even the perfection* of our motives? And if so, could we not be driven through brilliant moments of passion to an enthusiasm for an immanent ideality?
To be sure, that may not quite amount to a "metaphysics". But why always begin where philosophers would have us, here. Why always Dasein, not duende. Why not listen to the muses? Surely, they are not all sirens. And surely our senses, too, sometimes deceive.
Whereof we cannot sing, thereof we must dance.
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*The root of evidence is to "see fully", obvious, the root of perfection, to be completely done, finished. Facility is a "lightness" or "genteleness" in action, "ease", "fluency".
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
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"Philosophy is disclosure of being, and being's essence is truth and philosophy. Being's essence is the temporalization of time, the diastasis of the identical and its recapture or reminiscence, the unity of apperception." (Levinas, Otherwise Than Being, II.2., p. 29)
Poetry wills the unleashing of becoming, and becoming's emergence wills justice and poetry. Becoming's emergence wills the spacialization of space, the confluence of difference and its forgiveness or forgetting, the multiplicity of agitation.
Friday, December 22, 2023
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Friday, October 27, 2023
Act, Fact, Artifact
People act; they do things. Facts are things done.
People get together to act. Things brought together are facts.
Things are just lying around. Facts accomplish them.
People make artifacts out of the things they find.