Monday, February 27, 2023

Unsayable; "Inexpressible and Nameless"

On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions

    I'd recommend reading this chapter for yourself before continuing, as I could never explain this text as well as the the author himself. Regardless, I took a lot out of chapter 5, book 1 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions. The consequences, those which we might predict the chapter to entail, seem massively understated in the discussion of Nietzschean philosophy; consequences which hinge on our understanding and comprehension of it (or lack there of). Nietzsche begins by claiming that our virtues(meaning here 'passion,') are in common with nobody-- only upon our (desire-to-have-)sureness of our virtue[,] do we name our virtue, which thus situates our virtue in common with other virtues and the people who hold them. This, is the danger which I believe Nietzsche predicted all-too-well.

Thursday, February 23, 2023

How Cities Talk: Poems

 How Cities Talk

A collection of poems written by Morgan Austin

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Red, White, Blue, and Nothing: Toward a Post-Aesthetic Conception of Flags with Heidegger’s Understanding of Art

“I am not Athenian or Greek, but a citizen of the world.” — Socrates