In ordinary sense perception, consciousness is given by way of percepts. This is to say that the consciousness of objects of perception is directly given with the perception of them and requires no initiative or effort on the part of the subject to achieve. The Moon makes manifest the light of the Sun, which but…
Month: October 2021
Miscellany: on information and knowledge, COVID-19 profiteering, and other subjects
On being an elder versus being old: The analogy came to me of the way in which it is possible to distinguish between the pitch of a tone and its volume. These two features of the tone cannot be divided, or taken apart, however, without also taking apart the tone itself. It is not necessary…
The Archetype of Reversal: On Light and Thought
“The intellectual light dwelling in us is nothing else than a kind of participated image of the uncreated light…” —Thomas Aquinas On the trans-temporality of thought: What is the duration of a thought? If the duration is infinitesimal, then how do we become conscious of it? If the duration is infinite, then how does one…
Miscellany: On issues surrounding vaccination mandates
On corporate capture of regulatory and legislative bodies: I don’t think it is remotely controversial to propose that our regulatory and legislative agencies subsist in a state of capture by corporate interests—specifically Big Pharma, in this case. We have repeatedly observed an analogous phenomenon in the “Military Industrial Complex” that Eisenhower famously warned about in…
On Theoria, the persistence of vision, and the consummation of dialectic
In traditional analog television sets, the visual image is generated by a single point of light. The process is called “raster scanning.” The term comes from the Latin word for “rake” and refers to the linear pattern that the point traverses to travel across the screen. From a single scanning point, the raster scan on…
Miscellany: On the faceless tyranny of the generic, analogy and music, light, vaccination mandates, etc.
On the deleterious consequences of the Utilitarian outlook: One benefit of a Utilitarian approach to ethics is that it can easily be scaled to fit any circumstances. This general applicability of the theory is regarded as a feature. Of course, a slight amount of reflection will reveal that it is also a bug. To wit:…
On the radix of ethics
O radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare. Love flows from an unconditional affirmation of what is. A garden springs from soil that is fertile and ethics has its original ground in love. The Law is always downstream of…
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