Platonic concepts and theology |
I've been doing a lot of reading lately, and also a lot of rereading, And I have been entertaining notions and analysis based on the data available in Comparative religion and Semiotics, as, especia... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:05:00 PST |
On the Foucault/Chomsky debate |
In the debate, Chomsky rests his analysis that human nature has fundamental qualities, yet cannot answer Foucault's assertion that exibited traits are indicitive of the a class in power. While it ca... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:30:00 PST |
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian version Tablet X verse 297-319. circa 2100- 2500 BCE |
...You toiled away, and what did you achieve? You exhaust yourself with ceaseless toil, you fill your sinews with sorrow, bringing forward the end of your days. Man is snapped off like reeds to the s... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:10:00 PST |
Derrida on Deconstruction |
Deconstruction is intrinsic to whatever is being deconstructed, it has no synonymous relation with other paradigms. A deconstruction of Christianity would be unlike a deconstruction of Capitalism. I... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:53:00 PST |
Notes on Knowlege, dreams and process |
It has been said that life is worth living in accordance to the scope of one's dreams, and I will not be one to refute this. Instead I will try to offer an analysis, and hopefully an inspiration in ... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:24:00 PST |
Nietzsche & Deleuze: Active and Reactive |
Nihilism is a cultural libel, and is useless without its explicit definition on what it sees as its antithesis. The problem, I think, is understanding nihilism as something with qualities. A literal... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:35:00 PST |
Desire, evaluation, happiness and the difference |
Put simply, 'happiness' is a qualitative state that is meaningless without the context, and therefor the means, by which it attained. It states relation between subject and object: I (subject)... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:31:00 PST |
On the meaninglessness of the term God |
If you are going to propose something exists, you must also propose the means by which it is intelligible. If you cannot define what it is you are proposing, then the validity of what is denoted becom... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST |
Primordiality and the Philosophers |
The Dionysian principle in Nietzsche underwent some changes to be sure from its original Dionysian/Apollonian dualism in The Birth of Tragedy. Here the Dionysian was primordial being, and he Apollonia... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:22:00 PST |
On the Cruelty of Christianity (Ludwig Feuerbach) |
The contradiction between faith and love (excerpt form Ludwig Feuerbachs book 'The Essense of Christianity' in the chapter of the same name) "...Faith condemns, anathematizes; all the actions, all th... Posted by A Premeditation of Friendship on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:47:00 PST |