applied contemporary idea archaeology – studying those ideas from the past still living in the present
50+. "Ach, es ist schwer, diese Gottesspur zu finden inmitten dieses Lebens, das wir fuhren, inmitten dieser so sehr zufriedenen, so sehr bürgerlichen, so sehr geistlosen Zeit, im Anblick dieser Architekturen, dieser Geschäfte, dieser Politik, dieser Menschen. Wie sollte ich nicht ein Steppenwolf und ruppiger Eremit sein inmitten einer Welt, von deren Zielen ich keines teile, von deren Freude keine zu mir spricht?" -- from Hesse's Steppenwolf
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
the theatre outside the Chekhov
a crowd flowed over Khamergerski Lane
beside the famous Moscow Art Theater...
were the actors outside any more real and unpredictable than that of those in?
beside the famous Moscow Art Theater...
were the actors outside any more real and unpredictable than that of those in?
Friday, March 21, 2014
massed emotions
most seem quite content to rant their political positions before or without learning,
not their vehemently rejected imbecilic enemies facts,
but their own.
not their vehemently rejected imbecilic enemies facts,
but their own.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Dante's Divine Comedy in Leibnitz's Théodicée?
Leibnitz
does not consider Dante's Comedy in his Théodicée
though that
is Dante's "response" to the "problem of theodicy"
and shows the philosophically abstract character of Leibnitz's consideration of it
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Fukushima's continuing disaster for us all
out of sight, out of mind?
doesn't quite work that way with radioactive particles...
at least not for the body
doesn't quite work that way with radioactive particles...
at least not for the body
Thursday, March 13, 2014
αγνώθι σεαυτόν and Fukushima again
the ongoing disaster at Fukushima shows avoiding mankind how it is incapable to make such serious decisions and developments as affect centuries if not millennia.
Labels:
agnothi seauton,
gnothi seauton
Location:
Moscow, Russia
Monday, March 10, 2014
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