There may not be much to discuss about consciousness, except, as I believe, human consciousness might be structured with respect to time. But studies of the...
More from Victor Li: Edward Said's death has deprived us of a voice more needed today than ever before. His was the voice that reminded us that there is a ...
[Mary] Most philosophies and revolutions tend towards absolute theories that place them alongside religious fanaticism. Political dialectic should* be based...
Hi, I'm John, student of everything, trying to learn about Existentialism and having a problem with the books, seems like every time I pick up a book on ...
John--You are not far off, but "why bother?" is the next question. Why not end it all? Only when you are not content that man suffers and dies for no clear...
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Jan 2, 2006 1:53 am
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Essentially, as Nietzsche is rumored to have said, "If God is dead, all is permissible." I say, if all is permissible, then man is not possible. It might be...
Some writers in the existentialist family make the existentialist viewpoint seem very complicated. It's not. You got it basically. Except, one's life need...
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Counterpoint By Mahmoud Darwish And what did you do? I laughed at my own absurdity and threw my novel away. The thinker restrains the novelist's tale, while...
As Barbossa said to Miss Elizabeth, "You must be a pirate for the Pirate's Code to apply, and you're not . . . the Code is more what you'd call "guidelines"...
Mary Jo, For all I understand of your cultural references, you might as well be posting in Arabic. As ever, in these waters, I need Bill for interpreter. My...
Louise, I kept trying to find this book everywhere I could. Finally, it appears in two UK's original versions, one for 950 pounds and the other for 2,600...
TO ILBRA [from the Persian] Ilbra! Beauty's bondmen are striken with blue eyes: Thine, when I first beheld thee, were black, O Ilbra. I admired their silken...
Just delightful. Is the poem, "To the Nightingale" also included in this edition? I found a great website in which many of Hafiz' poetry is posted in...
I also tried to define the term "ilbra" through various sources, including the Columbia University Encyclopedia Iranica, and Websters, and Google. Well, not...
These are the poet's own notes concerning the adaptation he has made from a French version circulating at the end of the eighteenth century. TO ILBRA When we...
... an excellent article, Mary, just when i needed some cheer. that is, not much good news concerning fifty years of anguish in that part of the world [where...
... HDT treated nature as if it served some useful, long-term purpose. Transcendental meditation, civil disobedience, and trying to connect to a great...
... Numerous studies have shown that people reach a conclusion then use "reason" to support their choices. We do not comprehend the complete neurobiology...
Edward Said, like Chomsky or Pinter, simplifies (simplified in Said's case) the world and especially the Middle East. I read Said's essays in college and...
... The International Herald Tribune / New York Times had an article on quantum mechanics, Einstein, and what it all means in the universe. The essays cited...
... It is not that life "sucks" so much as "you are on your own" in life. There is quite a difference. Kierkegaard argued that even a Christian is alone to...
... Kind of get it, "The only thing you can understand and decide on is you." There is no grand destiny, or miracles that God provides. God won't come down...
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Shards of light in a leaden sky. In the shadows, I asked my foreign soul: is this city Babylon or Sodom? There, at the edge of an electric chasm sky high, I...
Louise, I thought it was an interesting article, two things in particular. The French Existentialists were elderly. Sartre was near death. Beauvoir had...
so, if it would be unwise to bring children into the world, have we then reached a thought, a theory, indeed a conclusion, that we are as good as it gets ? ...
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Why not read the book before judging it? Or is that contrary to your manner of thought? I do not really understand quantum physics, so I do not know it his...
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