What is truer of Man’s believing than revelation; A complicated problem is only further complicated by being simplified. A state of confusion is never made comprehensible by being given a plot. Appearances do not deceive…
Posts tagged philosophy
In Silent Misconstrual Walks the Con
Coda to “Briggflatts” (1966) by Basil Bunting. A strong song tows us, long earsick. Blind, we follow rain slant, spray flick to fields we do not know. Night, float us. Offshore wind, shout, ask the…
The Dart’s the Thing: Melville on Emerson
“All men live enveloped in whale line.” Self-Reliance (Waldo) 1841 Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to…
And half again, Zeno?*
A post by a new contributor, Bobby V., in response to yesterday’s post, Well, What Would Jesus Do?. I remember long ago sitting in an educational administration class in graduate school and blurting out, “Aristotle…
Well, What Would Jesus Do?
As a reader and writer, talker and walker I “do” mostly with my mind with a little work for those reliably real metas, carpal and tarsal. Those actions largely comprise the me that comes to…
While You Still Have a Body: Rethinking Everything
The world dominated by humans operates outside of our frame of reference. No matter how hard you try it’s hard to think about the muddle when you are surrounded by it. It thinks you. Forgive…
Love Alters Not, but Chemistry Does
SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an…
Philosophus Agonistes: Thinking Against the State
I’ve been pondering what it is schools do and what it is I can imagine they might do instead. So you might gather from that statement that I do not agree with our current educational…