Thursday, July 2, 2009

Harley-davidson Birthday Card

"breaks" by Martin Heidegger: Pre-2008 texts

On his first trip to Greece, Heidegger envisioned (saw), not just what he stands at the center of the Greek experience which in turn opens the possibility the Western world - namely, "the uniqueness of unconcealment (desescondimiento) and occult (hidden)" (p. 36) - but also the huge gap between the world and modern man that his origin. I said, referring in the first instance to those Greeks, saying it "knew celebrate the great and high to recognize and establish a world", while we, humans today seem as removed from that home, lost in the chain of planning calculator. "And then adds that even those people" happy and calm "for which he and his companions crossed," got completely dispel these gloomy thoughts, which were laid before the recognition of the growing desolation of modern existence "(p. 44). Heidegger got his stay in Greece originally, treading the same ground, only away from the modern world (of noisy tourists," American hotels ", the" construction new bad taste ", etc..) of this world in which nobody really seems to is , which is not possible to live and meet, let alone listen to the silence that Heidegger wanted to meet, and here I paraphrase: the gods who have fled, and in doing so have left the desolation of men dwelling in the void of their works, and their actions vanity (p. 13).

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Brent Corrigan Free Donlowd

right back to high schools

details here.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Katies Playground Blog

Ah, Epicurus

"No doubt in being young or being old philosophizing philosophizing is boredom. For no one is young or old to the health of his soul" (Letter to Meneceo, translated by Carlos GarcĂ­a Gual). And to think that in Mexico there will be no philosophy in high schools and other schools at that level ... See here http://observatoriofilosoficomx.blogspot.com

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Kates Playground Amateur Night

RIP Franco Volpi


Friend of many of us, a great philosopher in the fullest sense of the term, a great human being ... Franco Volpi
died.
died as he said a man had to die doing what he likes. He died while walking in the morning on his bicycle.
remember him with affection and lots of admiration.

Here the news.