Sublime

The first comprehensive statement of the liberal philosophy is to be found in Locke, the most influential though by no means the most profound of modern philosophers.

“The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

Le pouvoir des gens a remplacé l’argent. En conservant un mode de vie simple, ils n’ont pas besoin d’avoir un emploi, ce qui leur donne le loisir de suivre leur chemin dans la vie, penser, écrire, discuter, boire, créer des œuvres d’art. Leur revenu est très modeste, mais ils font exactement ce qu’ils veulent, ce qui me paraît être une très belle r

As a young man, Wittgenstein himself started out by trying to define everything that could logically be stated—about everything else, he famously said, we should remain silent. But by the end of his life he came to conclude that there was no place to stand outside of our life, outside our language, outside our ordinary certainty about the existence

Pour ma part, quoique la philosophie m’ait beaucoup aidé, je ne me considère pas comme un philosophe, mais comme un journaliste enquêtant sur la façon dont les gens appliquent ces idées antiques à la vie moderne.

enough to understand with our eyes and our feelings.

Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican philosophe

The idea of the world possessing agency and the capacity for self-disclosure intrigued our brilliant old friend Martin Heidegger. Heidegger wondered if the failure to accord the possibility of an active as opposed to a passive presence to the world – what he called our ‘forgetfulness of Being’