Tag: modernity

  • Inconceivably true.

    People simply will not understand. Even then… Imagine a group of musicians, a band, who did everything possible to not be famous and be rich. They changed their name every show so they would not make a name for themselves. They made no records. They were well known in the music community and even wrote…

  • Being Modern Mindfully

    I have been reading a huge textbook on mindfulness. It is truly a gargantuan book for mindfulness: a thick textbook with everything, from history, through philosophy (East and west), neurobiology…everything about it. Very cool. One of the things that strikes me, though, about this very academic, clinical and scientific, conventional approach to Being, is the…

  • Confirm Humanity

    I just did a captcha. And, I’ve seen it before, but for some reason this morning it was phrased a little differently, the reason why we have to do those, and it just said “Confirm humanity”. 😎 I think it’s totally great and it’s totally funny at the same time. But this morning it just…

  • Is the Modern Religion making a name for itself? Metamodernism

    I’ve been hearing that metamodernism is the next stage in the march of history toward progress. Metamodernism will synthesise modernism and … Can Metamodernism Sublate Modernism and Postmodernism? —– Thanks Philosophics! Great post. The title of my Repost is a little tongue in cheek, but not really if you have been following my blog. I…

  • The Issue of Modern Philosophy and Mental Health: Disease as Ontologically Basic

    xo In modern philosophy, only one argument is Being formulated over and over; it is only the terms that change. The basic and fundamental issue concerns if this is noticed or not. If it is not, then we have a multiplicity of issues which arise out of the individual’s immanent communion with transcendence. If it…

  • The “End of History” and the Renegotiation of the Subject.

    With the deafening thunder of Napoleon’s canons filling the air at Jena, the romantic story goes that a middle-aged university professor and … Kojève, Herder, and the “End of History” —– I have not reas Kojeve or Herder, so the following goes off of only Heaiods essay. What we are seeing, what we are involve…

  • The Crisis of Modernity

    A very good essay-reading. It’s only like a half hour so it’s very accessible and easy to listen to. And does an excellent job as explaining the situation. Then, you might wish to segue into an essay published in the Journal of counseling and family therapy: An Essay Concerning the Possibility of a Unitive Theory…

  • The New Philosophy

    The Moment of Decisive Significance took more than 4 years to write and publish, and it still needs edits. The Philosophical Hack the first and second parts took a little less time, partly because of how Nathaniel approached it.  Actually, The Philosophical Hack is not yet complete, so all and all, for all 6 parts, will probably take…

  • Fear itself is is based in transcendence

    Feelings are about the body. They are immanent. Emotions are about reactivity. They direct or tend. Thoughts are about transcendence. While fear can be understood as an emotion, it is also able to be understood as something which affects an otherwise functional (efficient) system. Fear is that which creates dysfunction through making its agency appear…

  • The Local Psyche Global. (Lacan part 2)

    Ok. The question on the table is two parts: If The modern world is really the unrecognized embodiment of the reflection of one’s self, which is the the factual state of individual alienation, then what does it even mean that the alienated self-reflection is looking at cars, trees, space, planets, stars, deers, etc….?  What does…