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Frivolous Fragments: Humanism after Darwin (short & frivolous post)
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2007/11/let-me-confess-right-away-im-humanist.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. Humanism after Darwin (short and frivolous post). Let me confess right away, I’m a “humanist” – my heart leaps, my mind exults, whenever I read phrases like:. 8220;one should treat humanity in oneself and others always as an end and never merely as a means” (1). And we may not exploit others for our needs, nor physically or mentally hurt or humiliate (5) them - should they be in our way, or should they be in ou...
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Frivolous Fragments: reflections on the vexations of power
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2015/07/reflections-on-vexations-of-power.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. Reflections on the vexations of power. I remember this interview with a (brilliant) violinist on the radio : asked why he had chosen the relative anonymity of playing in a quartet instead of pursuing a more grandiose solo-career, he answered “I guess I prefer to battle for a collective cause, if it were only about my own career, I’d feel awkward, I would lack the motivation. 8220; Jamais de ma vie. I’ve a...
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Frivolous Fragments: How I came to understand the present world's plight after reading a 1957 essay (followed by some frivolously dubious notes)
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-i-came-to-understand-present-worlds.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. How I came to understand the present world's plight after reading a 1957 essay (followed by some frivolously dubious notes). Yep, trust me to find illumination about current affairs in a 1957 essay. Of all decades the one that seems to be the most self-delusionary…. 8220;for the first time in history all peoples on earth have a common present”. She writes. But. 8211; it is the result of the evolution in technol...
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Frivolous Fragments: heroic materialism - the sequel
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2008/09/heroic-materialism-sequel.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. Heroic materialism - the sequel. In the previous episode. Our contemplative economist left New York thoroughly humbled and humiliated. In the face of such display of wealth and success, who would still dare to doubt the superiority of this system, driven by “the deep selfishness of competition” (1) and supported by mathematico-financial wizardry. Animal spirits (3) , selfish greed and even speculation may be gr...
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Frivolous Fragments: Introducing Frivolous Fragments
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2007/10/introducing-frivolous-fragments.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. By way of introduction, a brief explanation about my Blog’s title which was chosen for many good reasons, the main ones being:. No one can resist a good. A perfect qualifier for any blog of mine; because I am indeed overly serious and so have to camouflage my ponderousness! So another good camouflage for my true pre-modern persona). 8220;Refractions” is definitely a more ponderous term, but it does convey...
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Frivolous Fragments: "a power of resistance of quite another kind"
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2009/01/power-of-resistance-of-quite-another.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. A power of resistance of quite another kind". April is the cruelest month (1) , but January may well be the gloomiest. So let that be my excuse for a darkly brooding post, about vast vacuities. Sinister seas, gory crucifixions and an utterly illegitimate use of Kant’s definition of the sublime. And what about the feeling of sublimity we experience when we see nature’s elements fearfully unchained? 8220;[…...
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Frivolous Fragments: Miscellaneous Objections to Life
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2008/07/miscellaneous-frivolous-objections-to.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. Miscellaneous Objections to Life. 8220;Struggle for Life most severe between Individuals and Varieties of the same Species :. No fear is felt? Death is generally prompt? Wow, what a consolation for life’s conditions …! And of course, it’s not up to science to lament the human condition. Better leave the moaning and meaning-seeking to philosophers and other unproductively reflecting organic beings. And yet, amid...
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Frivolous Fragments: feel-good post (with a twist)
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2007/12/feel-good-post-with-twist.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. Feel-good post (with a twist). As to me, I dote in particular on those many instances of art (or beauty, or goodness) that have sprung in conditions of hardship. Somehow they reconcile me with our quite pathetic human condition. Maybe because belief in the autonomy of the mind and the heart appeals to a naïve trust in ‘mind over matter’? But this penchant for “beauty-in-hard-times” is not merely abo...Nothing l...
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Frivolous Fragments: A Tale of Two Brain Halves (1), or: Proust and the Hypothalamus
http://frivolousfragments.blogspot.com/2008/02/tale-of-two-brain-halves-1-or-proust.html
The "Frivolous" is there to entice you . - the "Fragments" are there for you to make sense of. A Tale of Two Brain Halves (1), or: Proust and the Hypothalamus. It was definitely an exciting week for Proust-lovers with a thing for popular science (2). The press reported upon a neurological experiment. Meant to relieve a patient from his eating disorder) whereby Deep Brain Stimulation of the Hypothalamus. Is part of the limbic system. But so Proust might , in those thousands of pages with their many tantal...
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living room songs | HOWEVER FALLIBLE
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Fragments towards an aesthetics of frailty. October 6, 2011. From → Music. Larr; tantra song. Lau nau →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Light and space art.
