Jean-Luc Nancy on resurrection: love what escapes you
Love and truth touch by pushing away: they force the retreat of those whom they reach, for their very onset reveals, in the touch itself, that they are out of reach. It is in being unattainable that they touch us, even seize us. What they draw near to us is their distance: they make us […]
“Genealogy of Fanaticism” by Emil Cioran, 1949
“Look around you: everywhere, specters preaching: each institution translates a mission; city halls have their absolute, even as the temples ―officialdom, with its rules― a metaphysics designed for monkeys… Everyone trying to remedy everyone’s life: even beggars, even the incurable aspire to it: the sidewalks and hospitals of the world overflow with reformers.”
“The Ashtray: The Ultimatum (Part 1)” by Errol Morris
The conversation took a turn for the ugly. Were my problems with him, or were they with his philosophy? I asked him, “If paradigms are really incommensurable, how is history of science possible? Wouldn’t we be merely interpreting the past in the light of the present? Wouldn’t the past be inaccessible to us? Wouldn’t it […]
René Descartes’ Meditationes de prima philosophia (1641)
☛ Gallica / Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Renati Des-Cartes Meditationes de prima philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animae immortalitas demonstratur. [Sequuntur objectiones… cum responsionibus authoris by René Descartes, 1641 (first Latin edition), In-8°, 603 p. (Public Domain) Click for hi-res. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Descartes began work on Meditations on First Philosophy […]
