“I exist in that measure in which Thou art with me, and, since Thy look is Thy being, I am because Thou dost look at me, and if Thou didst turn Thy glance from me I should cease to be.”

Nicholas of Cusa

Current #book stack is starting to look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa

'In the Greek origins of philosophical thought we find such concepts as zetesis, seeking, kinesis, being moved to seek, and nous, the medium of the soul in which this takes place. Thus, we begin, not with definitions of some kind, but with movements, spiritual tensions, in which…

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a σοφός, but as a φιλος-σοφός, someone on the way toward wisdom. ~ Pierre Hadot

'One very profound philosopher [A. N. Whitehead] who began as a mathematician came to envisage a piece of iron as 'a melodic continuity.''
— Bergson
(CMii)

“Plotinus' apophaticism does not consist merely in negative language, for even such language still represents conceptual definition and intellectual apprehension: to say that the One is ‘not this’ is, inescapably, to think it as something else; to say that it is not multiple or…

Burns night

“Man has followed rationalism to the point where rationalism has transformed itself into utter irrationality.”

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Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
Erich Fromm
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Christmas presents!

Pinnacle Eckhart

Plotinus

Super excited to hear that Tina will be speaking to the Philosophy Society here in Edinburgh on the 23rd of November!

Seen at Lighthouse Books here in Edinburgh ACID HORIZON

“A pure subject without a
body, without a world, does not exist, and the pure object is of
no concern until it is discovered and thus related”

~ Tina Röck

Some things to keep in mind right now:

“Our political universe is peopled exclusively by myths and monsters; all it contains is absolutes and abstract entities.”

“Corresponding to each empty abstraction there is an actual human group…” - Simone Weil

#books : even though I left most of them at home, my collection is growing quite large here in Edinburgh

‘One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect’.
— Wordsworth

Really excited to attend this one tonight!

Hume

Historical Linguistics (LVC) needs Process Philosophy