Every year during the year change phase, I get reminded of how arbitrary this whole time thing is. I called my parents at 3 PM today to wish them a happy new year. They were already living in 2010. Or were they living in 2009 since I was calling them? Or were we both living somewhere in between, in a year-neverland akin to the areas that used to be between the two Germanys? We are all living now. But when is this now? Is it at the time I write this, the time in my timezone? But now is also … Continue reading »
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For one of my classes, I had to put together a creative project. Since writing is my creative outlet, I chose to write a poem. After reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, I wrote the following poem inspired by the liberating energy I felt in the Allegory. After re-reading a piece from Iris Murdoch, I decided to post it here. Maybe the sun of the Good will shine through to reach some of us to go beyond ourselves to develop morally as Murdoch suggested great art can do (note: I think Plato’s work is the great art here!). Deep down … Continue reading »
I’ve been spending way too much time since the beginning of December reading, rereading, and rerereading Kant’s Prolegomena, a work that attempts to summarize his Critique of Reason, Kant’s important contribution to philosophy in general and metaphysics in particular. It is impossible to understand his writing without total immersion, which means reading the same thing over and over again. I am beginning to understand what he is saying but that’s not what this post will be about. This post will be about a fact from Kant’s life: Kant died a virgin. This fact seems to conjure up all the prejudices … Continue reading »
I was already saddened when Gloria Steinem bend over backwards to try to justify getting married. In my eyes, she was forgetting all the feminist analysis that had critiqued marriage. As D. A. Clarke has pointed out “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Just because feminists marry doesn’t change marriage, the patriarchal and privileged institution that still traps so many women (and men) in unhappy lives. I was pretty disturbed when Steinem listed this in her list of wishes in celebration of her 75th birthday. It is one thing she’d like to see in the next 25 … Continue reading »
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