Category: ethics

• June 15, 2012

  Love, shift, and sustainability

  An 11 minute conversation with Jackie Bergman from this past Tuesday morning. In the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, he and I talk about love, shift, and sustainability. What is most telling about the conversation is how it becomes a performance piece in the art of love. Enjoy. *
• June 13, 2012

  Unphilosophical and philosophical eternity

  The Phenomenology of Exhaustion 1. Can one describe the lack or loss of eros? Of course. The experience would be felt as burdensome, pain-laden, leaden, tiresome, exhausted, a sense of separateness, of cleaving, of infinite matterlessness. Eros and Temporality 2. The distinction between eros and its lack may come down to that between two differing conceptions…
• June 12, 2012

  The corporeal experience of a good philosophical conversation

  Let us define eros as an experience of nearness and extraordinary aliveness. Then we can begin to describe the experience of eros for an adept in philosophical life. My experience anyway. As a good philosophical conversation unfolds, I sense eros like so (though the ‘feel’ of each event is different, unique, fine-grained): my lungs grow…
• June 9, 2012

  Beach reading

  Beach * Reading
• June 8, 2012

  Hegel on funding and fundraising

  The Fundraising Conceptual Error: You are not We Most fundraising campaigns do not make a whole lot of sense to me. They import an error in conception into their very structure and then seek to overcome this error by means of defensive pleas, subtle force, and the offering or reminder of benefits. The conceptual error…