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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | | 1:57 am |
| | Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | | 11:27 pm |
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Nihilism Before Nietzsche (1994)
In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject. Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was given its determinitive definition by Nietzsche, Gillespie focuses on the crucial turning points in the development of nihilism, from Ockham and the nominalist revolution to Descartes, Fichte, the German Romantics, the Russian nihilists and Nietzsche himself. His analysis shows that nihilism is not the result of the death of God, as Nietzsche believed; but the consequence of a new idea of God as a God of will who overturns all eternal standards of truth and justice. To understand nihilism, one has to understand how this notion of God came to inform a new notion of man and nature, one that puts will in place of reason, and freedom in place of necessity and order. Current Mood: I see what he means about Ockham, for starters | | 1:06 pm |
yet more Zizek
What remains in suspense, what dangles in thought? We can only think, in language, because language is and yet is not our voice. | | 12:11 pm |
new book on Parmenides
Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being, necessary non-being or impossibility, and non-necessary or contingent being. This book accordingly reconsiders his place in the historical development of Presocratic philosophy in light of this new interpretation. Careful treatment of Parmenides' specification of the ways of inquiry that define his metaphysical and epistemological outlook paves the way for detailed analyses of his arguments demonstrating the temporal and spatial attributes of what is and cannot not be. Since the existence of this necessary being does not preclude the existence of other entities that are but need not be, Parmenides' cosmology can straightforwardly be taken as his account of the origin and operation of the world's mutable entities. Later chapters reassess the major Presocratics' relation to Parmenides in light of the modal interpretation, focusing particularly on Zeno, Melissus, Anaxagoras, and Empedocles. In the end, Parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being, and his arguments regarding what what must be must be like, simply in virtue of its mode of being, entitle him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from natural philosophy and theology. An appendix presents a Greek text of the fragments of Parmenides' poem with English translation and textual notes. Current Music: Rush : Mystic Rhythms | | 10:26 am |
more from Zizek's Twitter
Intellectuals are a product of history. In this sense, no society can complain of its intellectuals without accusing itself. | | 10:19 am |
from a comment I wrote on flavor dave's FB
I have been arguing with everybody who will listen about the abuse of the understanding of hipster and irony. but nobody knows how to take what I'm saying with its full sense of humor. hipster is an ironic hegemony. irony in the service, ironically, or smug conformity. anti-intellectual, no jazz, no passion. desire effaced. it's a bad fucking situation. Current Music: all you need is love | | 10:14 am |
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing a line somewhere." G.K. Chesterton | | 10:02 am |
I am now following Zizek on Twitter. what a world.
In Žižek's view, "Rawls's model works on one fateful condition: that there is no resentment . . . Rawls doesn't take into account the irrationality of envy. In capitalist relations today, envy is crucial. Never underestimate the power of envy. Although Rawls and other egalitarian liberals want to be 'no-bullshit' analysts, the ultimate image of the human being on which their accounts are based is way too naive and utopian." Žižek is equally unforgiving of those further to the left of Rawls. "I've noticed how many of the people who consider themselves to be more radical than the liberal standard do not work in political theory proper but, as it were, hide themselves as literary critics or philosophers. It's as if their radicalism is an excess which requires them to change genre."
http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/11/381-382-interview-obama-theory
p.s. Zizek wrote the funniest Twitter ever: "I am on the toilet" | | Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 10:53 pm |
scary skynet shit
Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning (Cognitive Systems Monographs) by: Lorenzo Magnani This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. The book aims at increasing knowledge about creative and expert inferences. The study of these high-levelmethods of abductive reasoning is situated at the crossroads of philosophy, logic, epistemology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, animal cognition and evolutionary theories; that is, at the heart of cognitive science. Philosophers of science in the twentieth century have traditionally distinguished between the inferential processes active in the logic of discovery and the ones active in the logic of justification. Most have concluded that no logic of creative processes exists and, moreover, that a rational model of discovery is impossible. In short, scientific creative inferences are irrational and there is no “reasoning” to hypotheses. On the other hand, some research in the area of artificial intelligence has shown that methods for discovery could be found that are computationally adequate for rediscovering – or discovering for the first time – empirical or theoretical laws and theorems. Current Mood: they're gonna eat me aliveCurrent Music: Metric | | 12:52 pm |
| | Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | | 8:44 am |
Ballard quotes + reviews
"They hung on the enamelled walls like the codes of insoluble dreams, the keys to a nightmare in which she had begun to play a more willing and calculated role." - "For some reason the planes of his face failed to intersect, as if their true resolution took place in some as yet invisible dimension, or required elements other than those provided by his own character and musculature." http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70240.The_Atrocity_Exhibition Current Music: Fly on the Wall-The Jesus Lizard-Down | | Friday, November 6th, 2009 | | 6:16 pm |
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something somebody posted on the Huxley FB group
HELLO MY EXPERIENCE WITH HUXLEY IS FUNDATIONAL, AFTER THE FIRST TIME I MAKE LOVE, I CAME BACK TO MY HOUSE TO READ "FILOSOPHIA PERENNIS", ONE OF THE MORE GREATEST BOOKS OF MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF MANKIND. PLEASE, LOOK FOR THIS...THANK YOU Current Music: Jesus Lizard - Thumbscrews | | Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | | 10:35 pm |
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I just composed this in about a minute as a Facebook comment. think I have a problem
What's your take on the Plato question? I tend to prefer the textual evidence of the Plato corpus to the speculation that there was already neoplatonism in his in his esoteric spoken doctrine. I'm emphasizing this point in my Master's thesis on Pico della Mirandola, who argued against the neoplatonizing interpretation of Plato in the 15th century in his "On Being and Unity." I don't trust Aristotle, Plotinus or Proclus as interpreters of Plato's true intentions, although I greatly respect that how they read him led to their own original metaphysical systems. Current Music: Fly on the Wall-The Jesus Lizard-Down | | 7:02 pm |
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