Category: meditation

• June 14, 2012

  Riverdance

  I was slow about it. First I took off my boots and set them aside. Then my woolen socks whose bands I rolled over once. Then my long, white shirt which caught up my long hair as it came off slowly. Finally my pants which were tied once round my waist with twine. My underwear…
• 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 11, 2012

  Adderall and philosophical life

  The Sunday New York Times front page article on the pervasiveness of Adderall use among wealthy high school students, “Risky Rise of the Good-Grade Pill: Taking Stimulants Not for a High, but for a Higher SAT Score” (June 10, 2012), misses the philosophical point. The reporter Alan Schwarz covers the usual suspects–availability, pervasiveness, potentially adverse side…
• June 9, 2012

  Beach reading

  Beach * Reading