Sublime

This was the sort of powerful, personal stuff that people craved from philosophy in troubled times: it was one reason why Heidegger acquired such influence. His starting point was reality in its everyday clothes, yet he also spoke in Kierkegaardian tones about the strangest experiences in life, the moments when it all goes horribly wrong — and even

This liberalism relies upon the idea that consciousness is not a thing but an activity; that its elemental constituent is not some soul-like substance but the activity of understanding; that it knows itself and the world only imperfectly, through its reflections on the world and itself; that its freedom is a matter of degree and a function of its u

living religious faith is rather achieved through a double movement, where you renounce the cares that follow from being finite and instead place your trust in God. Even though you are starving, you believe that you will be nourished, even though you are dying, you believe that you will live forever, and even though you are killing your son, you be

“The world is everything that is the case.”11

every soul is deprived of truth against its will.

já que continuam a acreditar que alguns valores são superiores à vida, que o real deve ser julgado em nome do ideal, que é necessário transformá-lo para moldá-lo aos ideais superiores:

It seems most likely, as Josiah B. Gould concludes in his The Philosophy of Chrysippus, that this prominent Stoic held two incompatible views of fate and alternated between them to draw the benefits from each. The first view was that the ‘rigorous causal nexus’ of fate provides a logical basis for the magical prophecies of the revered Delphic Oracl

What Tolstoy means here—I think—is: (a) that because everything connects with everything else, there’s an inescapable interdependency across time, space, and scale—forget about distinguishing independent from dependent variables; (b) that, as a consequence, there’ll always be things that can’t be known—breaking them into components won’t help becau