Books are not media.
They're right there.
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It isn't a balance. There is no scale.
You want clarity in thought
and intensity in feeling;
your emotions should be strong
but your concepts, sharp.
You cannot simply weigh
your passions against your reasons.
You can only move into the light.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Language, Justice, and Music
"Must [the metaphysician] not begin," asks Ayer, "as other men do, with the evidence of his senses? And if so, what valid process of reasoning can possibly lead him to the conception of a transcendental reality?"
Must he?
Could one not begin with the facility* of our motions, even the perfection* of our motives? And if so, could we not be driven through brilliant moments of passion to an enthusiasm for an immanent ideality?
To be sure, that may not quite amount to a "metaphysics". But why always begin where philosophers would have us, here. Why always Dasein, not duende. Why not listen to the muses? Surely, they are not all sirens. And surely our senses, too, sometimes deceive.
Whereof we cannot sing, thereof we must dance.
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*The root of evidence is to "see fully", obvious, the root of perfection, to be completely done, finished. Facility is a "lightness" or "genteleness" in action, "ease", "fluency".