Sunlight reflects off Kraken Mare, one of Titan’s many liquid-methane lakes.
Author: Jelte
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
(1716) Yamamoto Tsunemoto
(Translated from Japanese into English by William Scott Wilson (1979))
Poetic, robust, humbling. Maybe even useful. I’ve been trying to make decisions ‘within seven breaths’, for example.
Anticlima(tic Conferencing on the Titanic
“Copenhagen, for me, is a very clear deadline that I think we need to meet, and I am afraid that if we don’t, then the process will begin to slip, and […] one deadline after the other will not be met, and we sort of become the little orchestra on the Titanic.”
– CØP15 orchestrator Yvo de Boer, December 2008, speaking to George Monbiot
§1 De Deo / Of God
BS: D1. Per causam sui intelligo id cujus essentia involvit existentiam sive id cujus natura non potest concipi nisi existens.
SS: D1. By that which is self-caused I mean that whose essence involves existence; or that whose nature can be conceived only as existing.
:: What does BS understand by conceivability?
§6 Der Geist / The Spirit
GWH: Die Vernunft ist Geist, indem die Gewißheit, alle Realität zu sein, zur Wahrheit erhoben und sie sich ihrer selbst als ihrer Welt und der Welt als ihrer selbst bewußt ist.
HTG: Reason is spirit, since the certainty of being all reality has been raised to truth, and it is self-consciously aware of itself as its own world, and the world as itself.
:: Can something be [self-consciously aware] of something else? Is it not (i) self-conscious, or (ii) conscious of itself, rather than self-conscious of itself? Continue reading §6 Der Geist / The Spirit
His Excellency President Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe cops-in on CØP15
(↠merry-Christmas-tree-ball)
The road ahead
Said Odysseus to his wife: “We have still not reached the end of our trials. One more labor lies in store—boundless, laden with danger, great and long, and I must brave it out from start to finish.â€
(Thanks be to Liz Harnmeijer)
Købnhavn CØP-out15
→ “There is no Planet B” â†
Let Flow the Force
The Principles of Psychology
(1890) William James
I really wonder how much Philosophy of Mind (which is what, as far as I can tell, this mostly is) has subsequently progressed. Particularly notable is James’ attack on Associationism – the notion that ideas are compounded out of elemental constituents. Reductionism has not just been vehemently applied to the question of the relationship between the Mental and Physical realms – but also within the realm of the Mental itself. Associationism is, par excellence, an application of the reductionist thinking that seems to tempt many a human mind wherever it turns its attention.