A continuation of my last post, as prompted by Robert’s recommendation of James Smith’s The Fall of Interpretation.
Smith’s book definitely helps. I’m not quite done, so I may have more remarks later.
In the book, Smith focuses on four different hermeneutics, crudely and quickly summarized below:
Traditional Evangelical: views interpretation as result of the Fall, something to [...]
Tags: creational, hermeneutics, james k a smith, pentecost, smith, transcendental signified
Over the last few weeks, I have been working on Jean-Luc Marion’s The Erotic Phenomenon in my dwindling spare time, and I have found it thoroughly enjoyable. In this book, Marion wishes to recover what philosophy has lost: a concept of love. At first, this may seem odd because one typically does not associate love [...]
Tags: certainty, Desire, ego cogitans, erotic reduction, Jean-Luc Marion, Love, ontothelogy, phenomenology, phenomenon, Subject
The results of the “Quiet” and “We Live in Public” projects—naked people throwing each other around a shower enclosure, threatening to kill each other with sub-machine guns, or attempting rape on the net—are not aberrations. These depraved and debased actions are calculated to appeal to the Other, but this Other is our own self-image—the Other is us.
Tags: Cognition of Discovery, Josh Harris, Ondi Timoner, Quiet, technology, We Live in Public
Plato’s Phaedrus pictures a philosophy of love and the soul which, besides its characteristic queerness, contains many fascinating links to contemporary philosophy. One point in particular that I am struggling to understand, however, is the assertion that the beloved sees himself in his lover. What Plato means by that, I am not sure. I quote [...]
In Plato’s Symposium, Agathon asserts that Love is of surpassing beauty and goodness. After all, as he says, “since this god arose, the loving of beautiful things has brought all kinds of benefits both to gods and to men.” Although immediately flattering Agathon’s elegance, Socrates drastically changes the direction of the conversation by pointing out [...]
Is it disrespectful (or perhaps merely amateurish) to talk about why we enjoy certain kinds of inquiry? Or is it bad form these days to treat study, like meals, as a source of pleasure as well as a regimen or diet? I enjoy theology, philosophy, literature, and music. I also have certain overweaning impulses to [...]
Tags: flavors, good books, good company, good manners, intuitions, knees, old men, philosophers, prose style, spectators, theologians, Theology, word of god
