Tag: Metaphysics
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Aspects of reality
What aspects of the way things are reveal themselves to us, provided we are open and provided also that we perceive these features rightly? Recall that we are attuning ourselves to the three-fold nature of reality. 1.) Infinity is absolute stillness. 2.) Totality flows out of infinity. (Or: infinity flows through totality.) 3.) The finite…
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Non-being, being, and beings
One would like to acquaint oneself further with ‘the way things are.’ The chief reason is that if the one who lives best lives in accordance with nature, then it would be good, to begin with, to be able to say some things about what nature is. Next, one would have to investigate what it…
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‘As I sit, / the sun rolls over…’
Words that arose before today’s philosophical conversation with one philosophical friend: * As I sit, the sun rolls over the backs of the mountain. / Before, being was no-thing, but now being is thinged. / Loss but also gain.
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Mountain chant
A chant to be mumbled to oneself during meditation: * 1 Swaying reeds like hanging beans Through you I see the mountains. 2 Swaying reeds like hanging beans Through you I feel the mountains. 3 Swaying reeds like hanging beans Through you just the mountains. 4 Swaying reeds like hanging beans wending with the mountains. […]
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Visions of being human: Contemplation and action
I’ve been trying to understand what makes a certain joke funny. It is: “I’m a person. [pause] I get things done.” The pause between personhood and the completion of actions allows for one to be surprised by the identification of a person with successful action. This joke is not too far afield from Marx’s 11th…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 