Tag Archives: Philosophy

in medias res

My life is so many fragments that I start to believe any dusty pile of themMore

Stakes

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power. –HeideggerMore

Outside This Room

I know that outside this roomsomething gives signs of life,something twitches or boundsand could join my legs jumpingbeneath the desk, seer legs.I know but don’t leave the roominstead I make the roomsmaller and smaller, shrinkingits proportions to a pointsomehow I still fit inside.I still look outside the room,my microscopic room,to the vastness out therethe trees…More

A glance at perspective

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. –Thomas NagelMore

A Note on Nihilism

It’s different, how an individual–especially a philosopher, trained how he could be trained in times of crises–faces the threat of nihilism and how it is faced generally, for members of a social body generally under its throes.  While the former holds his head above, or at least at a distance–two or three centuries worth of…More