Language as Power
Postmodernism would argue that language is power. On the surface this is just as ludicrous as suggesting that money is speech. However, what they mean is that any use of language is a use of power....
View ArticleThoughts on Heidegger and Levinas
A few comments from this thread… “The Other is not constituted by the self, as Levinas haves it, but the inverse.” There is no ‘constitution’ of the self from the Other in Levinas. The self is a...
View ArticleGreek Mythos (updated 2/16/12)
First of all Chaos came-to-be; but then afterwards Broad-breasted earth, a secure dwelling place forever for all (the immortals who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and misty Tartara in the depths...
View ArticleZizek, Hegel, Possibility
This is why the Hegelian ‘loss of the loss’ is definitively not the return to a full identity, lacking nothing. the ‘loss of the loss’ is the moment in which loss ceases to be the loss of ‘something’...
View ArticleMorality and its Shadow
The funny thing about “political correctness” is that those that would criticize it do so under the banner of political correctness. Morality is a bit like the Tar-Baby. The more we try to “neutralize”...
View ArticleThe Free Market Ideal
Thank you Jeff for your thoughtful comments…here are some of my observations. First, I do think we have some agreement on many of your points. Here are some of the differences that I would highlight....
View ArticleGod and Other
Since, as humans, we are composed of atoms and star dust it may be that we have a bare hunch, a non-specific intuition, about the limit of time and space, the end of reason, perhaps as Heidegger might...
View ArticleMarx Vis-à-vis Lorenzo
In this essay, Lorenzo states: “All of which has made it easier, alas, for one of Marx’s more profound errors to become part of many people’s common wisdom. An idea set out in the first chapter of Das...
View ArticlePhilosophy Series 1
Philosophy Series Contents (to be updated with each new installment) Prelude to the Philosophy Series 1 An Introduction to Greek Thinking 1 And Beyond… 2 This is how philosophy begins… 2...
View ArticleA Footnote
This will be an endnote in this series… With regard to this, Perhaps as a ‘he’ or a ‘she’. This phrase, incorrect grammatically, is an allusion to what classic Greek scholars have referred to as the...
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Philosophy Series 3 – Appendix A, Part 1
Philosophy Series Contents (to be updated with each new installment) Philosophy Series 1 – Prelude to the Philosophy Series Philosophy Series 2 – Introduction Philosophy Series 3 – Appendix A, Part...
View ArticlePhilosophy Series 4
Philosophy Series Contents (to be updated with each new installment) Philosophy Series 1 – Prelude to the Philosophy Series Philosophy Series 2 – Introduction Philosophy Series 3 – Appendix A, Part 1...
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