Category: philosophy
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Dignity, a Shape
Images contain thoughts. We need images to think. Some images have more vocal thoughts than others. While I drew this a question kept resurfacing: could dignity be contained in a shape, in form alone? There is something dignified about inner proportion and balance. Of course! Nature has dignity. Trees, vegetables, seashells, skeletons: they do not…
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Drawing Parted Clouds with Watercolor Pencils in my Sketchbook
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Do We Only See What We Know? | Road Trip 10
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Calligraphy and Doodling with Alan Watts
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Bridges of Play in Art, Philosophy, and Childhood
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWjG7_Sv0E&w=853&h=480] The nature of the will is one of the major problematics of life. Philosophers and artists have long labored to clarify the position we are in concerning the will. How much power does one person have? How much responsibility does one have in achieving for oneself the good life, and how can this…
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The Moth of the Fire Tower: a Living Parable
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Annie Dillard and Thomas Merton on Pushing Passed “Good Enough”
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Born into a system of norms set strategically before us, it’s always surprising to be reminded that we are still ultimately at the helm of this process of what we accomplish and what we choose to bring into being.
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The Disembodiment of Knowledge
Thinking about Media with Socrates and McLuhan “Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.” – Marshall McLuhan A gradual externalization of human knowledge began with the advent of written language, the first alphabets arising around the 3rd millennium BC, and the old Latin alphabet…
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Barnett Newman on the Aesthetic Roots of Humanity
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“Man’s hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin.” “Undoubtedly the first man was an artist,” begins a remarkable little speculative essay written in 1947 by Barnett Newman. It proposes that the aesthetic act of wonder precedes the social and utilitarian acts…
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Trusting the Ground of Learning
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75106381″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] In order to access that “world in a grain of sand” which William Blake wrote about, physically, nothing more is required than to walk the beach, sit and comb the sand. In the end, physically, there is probably nothing required. What he meant was a psychological alignment. Only…