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hovering
I am gluttonous for life and all thingslife. Something, contrary to popular opinion,never comes from something elsebut always rather in some fundamental wayfrom nothing. (hovering over the waters) out…… Read more “hovering”
Einstein on Beauty
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. ~ Albert Einstein 1879-1955
A New Proposition
-- "Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent... Faith is not a series of gilt-edged propositions that you… Read more "A New Proposition"
Everything Unresolved
“. . . I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to…… Read more “Everything Unresolved”
Memo #5
Memo #5 ~ Simone Weil and Stringfellow The nature of Love is, enigmatically, found in perpetual Act, defined in the solitude granted within the oneness of intimacy,…… Read more “Memo #5”
Kant Journal #5
Immanuel Kant on Reason, God, and Morality Kant now takes himself to have waged a devastating critique of rational theology in the Transcendental Dialectic, and yet we…… Read more “Kant Journal #5”
Phenomenological Movement Journal
Katie Huffman / PHIL 340 / Halteman Journal # 1.5 (date?) ; Response to the Phonomenological Movement Several Quotations I reacted to very strongly: “When epistemological inquiry…… Read more “Phenomenological Movement Journal”
Memo #3 ~
Memo # 3 ~ Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran “What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire. We do no…… Read more “Memo #3 ~”
Heidegger Journal #7
Journal # 7 (3/5/04) A “fore-having” as Heidegger uses the term here is what you bring with you to an experience that allows you to interpret it.…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #7”
Heidegger Journal #5
Journal # 5 (2/27/04) Heidegger addresses those who make objections to environmental experience based on its presupposition of the reality of the external world by explaining why…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #5”
Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)
Although Augustine was strongly influenced by Plato, the two have clearly different ideas of what constitutes human Happiness. For Plato, justice, or psychic harmony, is the dominant…… Read more “Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)”
Plato on Happiness of Soul…
Is the just person truly happier than the unjust person? In his comparative thesis, Plato never directly addresses what happiness is, but by analyzing certain definitions that…… Read more “Plato on Happiness of Soul…”
Heidegger Journal # 4
In Analysis of the Structure of Experience, Heidegger seeks to examine the question, “Is there something?” and to show that the lived experience of this question (“deliberately…… Read more “Heidegger Journal # 4”
Kant Journal # 1
Mary Kathryn Huffman (Married: Gough) / Kant Journal One / 2/17/04 Hardy A Priori Synthetic Judgments Kant wanted to make clear some defining lines in the muddiness…… Read more “Kant Journal # 1”
Continental Assignment 1
[response to a selection of handouts on Continental Philosophy] c. Mary Kathryn Gough (maiden: Huffman), 2003(?) It seems to me that the ‘reorientation of philosophy in this…… Read more “Continental Assignment 1”
theMechanics.Of:ceratlone —
(Or Tolerance, in the common tongue) No one can be commended any longer for instilling values in others – least of all the young and impressionable. We…… Read more “theMechanics.Of:ceratlone —”
stepping.stones
A Strategem for Sound Realism For each one of us, the proffered fascade of the ‘Real’ must be apprehended as a substantive, solid box, accepted, and then…… Read more “stepping.stones”
Idiolalia 