Tag: philosophy

  • Legacy

    Legacy

    Adam stretches his arm The tip of his finger, Few inches shy of the Immortal—   Mirroring the painter and his brush Reaching for the ceiling chapel Praying for resurrection—   Or was it the other way around? Did Michelangelo intend to show An old God, aided by angles,   Bent on reaching progeny, Reincarnation,…

  • A Common Problem With the “I-Me” Thing

    A Common Problem With the “I-Me” Thing

    This writer is not really Johan Sigg so much as it is an entity positioned at a curious angle looking in on a man whom other people call Johan Sigg. “I” am certainly controlling that body called Johan but “I” am not Johan. “I” am not quite sure what “I” mean to say when I…

  • Pursuits of Wholeness

    Pursuits of Wholeness

    Ἔρως and Story in the Aristophanic Myth In his encomium on love in the Symposium, Plato’s Aristophanes proposes that, “for the whole’s desire and pursuit, certainly, ἔρως is the name” (193A).[1] The mythic speech containing this conclusion portrays ἔρως as the experience of and remedy for mortal incompleteness. Love is an impetus towards the original…

  • Dora’s Light

    Dora’s Light

    He was walking across his living-room when it happened. Of course many wouldn’t believe him when he spoke of it later. They’d just smile, nod their heads, “Really? Uh huh,” they’d say, but they didn’t believe, no, not really. Of course they were polite, they’d listen—okay, so let’s get to what happened. Frank was crossing…

  • Hume: Liberation and Sympathy

    Hume: Liberation and Sympathy

    David Hume was a Scottish philosopher in the 18th Century and was well known for his empiricist views on human nature. His most famous text was A Treatise of Human Nature, later rewritten as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a work that grapples with ideas of perception, action, reason, and freedom. In his writing, Hume…

  • Hamlet’s Moral Philosophy: The Key to Unlocking Shakespeare’s Own Ethics

    Hamlet’s Moral Philosophy: The Key to Unlocking Shakespeare’s Own Ethics

    Little is known about Shakespeare’s personal life or his own beliefs.  Most of what we know is derived from his expansive catalog of plays; the consensus is that the character of Hamlet is most similar to the Bard himself.  “In recent years, studies of Shakespeare’s plays have concerned themselves with everyday objects and ‘matter’ rather…

  • Modern Rhetorical Metacriticism

    Modern Rhetorical Metacriticism

    There are several methodologies available for use in the field of modern rhetorical criticism. Using each form and comparing their insights and conclusions against each other will garner an analysis on which is more applicable to the selected artifact chosen for study. This is a criticism on the utility and necessity of the critical styles…

  • Ethical Implications of a Moral Machine and a Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence Projects

    Ethical Implications of a Moral Machine and a Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence Projects

    In a bit of more cheery news, the top AI researchers have all AGREED on a list of ethical implications — almost an AI bill of rights — that need to be signed and accepted as industry standard for artificial intelligence projects. So far, about 760 developers and 1020 others have signed the agreement. I guess this will…

  • David Bentley Hart Articles: A Megalist

    David Bentley Hart Articles: A Megalist

    (I assume DBH hates portmanteau as much as I, so it seemed fitting to create one for him for the cover image). Back in 2007, David W. Congdon over at The Fire and The Rose compiled a list of David Bentley Hart articles published by First Things. I want to expand on his list to include…

  • Define Hypocrite — The Hypocrisy Cycle

    There’s a soccer mom. She’s a spitfire, a tiger momma if ever there was one. Or maybe a hovering helicopter mom. Or maybe a homeschooling mom of a baker’s dozen. Her kids are playing in the front yard and some moron blasts down her neighborhood’s 25mph zone doing 45mph in some two-door car. “SLOW DOWN!”…

  • Dead Christ

    Holbien fishes bodies from the Rhine // stone or marble forms a slab // he clears green mold, seaweed, the guts // it takes to paint a Chrorpse, // and spreads them out to prompt his work.

  • Terms of War: The Rules of Our Upcoming Engagement

    As an amateur linguist, etymologist, and philologist, I care about the origins and meanings of words. Some say, “every word was once a poem,” and that’s a piece of how I feel, but mostly I care about words because I believe them to be living things, organisms tethered to the very life of humanity. No…