…the predictable and all-too-human flight from the Slough of Despond to Legality…
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Clarifications/Reminders 3
In law as elsewhere, we can know and yet not understand. Shadows often obscure our knowledge, which not only vary in intensity but are cast by different obstacles to light. These cannot all be removed by the same methods, and till the precise character of our perplexity is determined we cannot tell what tools we shall need. – H. L. A. Hart, “Definition and Theory in Jurisprudence”
Clarifications/Reminders 2
Typically, philosophical systems are like the train I saw yesterday: Four engines, screaming whistles, a very brief while, then two trailing, rattling, empty flatcars; and then nothing but dying noise.
Clarifications/Reminders 1
The Ascension is not the Disincarnation. Christ leaves no flesh suit on the ground.
In the Meantime (from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows)
the meantime
n. the moment of realization that your quintessential self isn’t going to show up, which forces the role to fall upon the understudy, the gawky kid for whom nothing is easy, who spent years mouthing his/her lines in the wings before being shoved into the glare of your life, which is already well into its second act.
What are You Looking for?
What am I looking for in philosophy? A kind of mutual involvement and correction among analytic, existential and metaphysical philosophies–a philosophy with rigor, urgency and vision.
Anecdotal Evidence: `Now Let Us See What I Can Do’
Caricature, Me
Happy Birthday to Kierkegaard!
I smoked a cigar in his honor today.
Here’s something from Johannes Climacus:
So there I sat and smoked my cigar until I drifted into thought. Among other thoughts, I recall these. You are getting on in years, I said to myself, and are becoming an old man without being anything and without actually undertaking anything. On the other hand, wherever you look in literature or in life, you see the names and figures of celebrities, the prized and highly acclaimed people, prominent or much discussed, the many benefactors of the age who know how to benefit humankind by making life easier and easier, some by railroads, others by omnibuses and steamships, others by telegraph, others by easily understood surveys and brief publications about everything worth knowing, and finally the true benefactors of the age who by virtue of thought systematically make spiritual existence easier and easier and yet more and more meaningful—and what are you doing?
Quantum Est In Rebus Inane 