La infinitud, los conceptos, y el Aleph

 Analizar “El Aleph” por Jorge Borges

Alterity, Anomaly, and Corporeality and Corporealization

 Alterity, Anomaly, and Corporeality/Corporealization

The following is a draft/super-rough sketch of a re-organization of my philosophy of mind and phenomenology; I'm partially publishing this unfinished because I just need to get these ideas down first so I can come back and correct myself soon. The most important take away, I feel, is the reconsideration of death as a phenomenology. Essentially, I asked myself how our phenomenological perceptive sense experience could itself occur, to which my answer is corporealization. Corporealization is the 'explosion' of sense experience enabled by any body (which is Corporeality); everything has a corporeality but corporealization is not necessarily realized through PPSE in all things. Thus, PPSE is a theory of mind, while corporealization is (almost?) an ontology.

Through Him All Things Fall: the Importance of the Spirit of Gravity in Thus Spoke Zarathustra

 Author's statement: this is an essay I wrote for my Philosophy of Literature class which was looking in depth at Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

The Phenomenology of Death-Itself & The Fear of Death-Consciousness

    The fear of 'death-itself' arises out of the fear of void-experience; it's the fear of perceiving and being aware of the nothingness after dying. It's not that we fear that there will be nothing; rationality is lost with fear. Peter Watts puts it best when he writes in his book Blindsight, "'People aren't rational. You aren't rational. We're not thinking machines[...] we're feeling machines that happen to think.'" Many-a-philosopher argue that death is the 'same as before you were born (phenomenologically),' so why should one be afraid of death-itself?(^1) This misses the picture of how people understand death-itself, and what they actually fear: death-consciousness.

A Chilling Tattoo: Poem

 A chilling tattoo

morgan austin

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.

How Cities Talk: Poems

 How Cities Talk

A collection of poems written by Morgan Austin