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"Plato: we are governed by an erotic longing for the Good, and that we love or long for what we lack,
Heidegger: we are drawn toward Being as it withdraws: “we are drawing into what withdraws, into the enigmatic and therefore mutable nearness of its appeal”. The deepest philosophical insight recognizes that the mystery must “remain . . . veiled”, that man’s search for wisdom is incomplete and incomplet-able." — Apr 17, 2019 12:24PM
"Plato: we are governed by an erotic longing for the Good, and that we love or long for what we lack,
Heidegger: we are drawn toward Being as it withdraws: “we are drawing into what withdraws, into the enigmatic and therefore mutable nearness of its appeal”. The deepest philosophical insight recognizes that the mystery must “remain . . . veiled”, that man’s search for wisdom is incomplete and incomplet-able." — Apr 17, 2019 12:24PM
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"Plato you crazy: Chora ... as opening up a space into which qualities can be received so that particular things can come into being... is thus the “Nurse of Becoming.” The concept of space or place that is involved in this account—of space as the receptive and nurturing opening or “womb” in which things come to be—is one that is amenable to a more geometrical or mathematical account than the Aristotelian." — Apr 14, 2019 06:24AM
"Plato you crazy: Chora ... as opening up a space into which qualities can be received so that particular things can come into being... is thus the “Nurse of Becoming.” The concept of space or place that is involved in this account—of space as the receptive and nurturing opening or “womb” in which things come to be—is one that is amenable to a more geometrical or mathematical account than the Aristotelian." — Apr 14, 2019 06:24AM
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"Nosing for clues about Heidegger’s targets. This is illuminating:
It’s Aristurtle all the way down! 🐢" — Apr 13, 2019 08:31AM
"Nosing for clues about Heidegger’s targets. This is illuminating:
“it is the explicit rejection of ... the authority of Aristotle, that marks for Descartes, and for many of his contemporaries and successors, their own sense of their ‘modernity’.”
It’s Aristurtle all the way down! 🐢" — Apr 13, 2019 08:31AM
“What I want to do is to change your attitude. I want you to sense chaos where at first you noticed an orderly arrangement of well behaved things and processes.”
― Against Method
― Against Method
“If you wish to build a society founded on liberty, let us test your words and especially your deeds by fire.”
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“We creatures live off the bodies of others. This is the system we are part of, whether we like it or not. If we cannot learn to live and love in such a bloody, ambiguous world as this, we starve to death emotionally and cognitively, for we live with truth as necessarily as we live with high hopes.”
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“Brave and creative men never consider pleasure and pain as ultimate values—they are epiphenomena: one must desire both if one is to achieve anything.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
“I don’t want harmony. . . . I’d rather remain with my unrequited suffering and my unrequited indignation, even if I am wrong. Besides, they have put too high a price on harmony; we can’t afford to pay so much for admission. . .”
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