Tag: hope
Memory, truth, love; or, knowledge in the ethical response
What is the role of memory (or knowledge or epistemology) in ethics? Is learning or knowing necessary in being ethical? Here is a thought experiment on memory and relations or interactions. Going about the day in a mall while waiting for a particular time, you started feeling thirsty. You decided to go to a coffee…
On being disruptive
Cox defines epistemic agents as “beings for whom knowledge is salient to their formation of beliefs, their dispositions, and their actions”, this agency entailing “a preference for knowledge and both the ability and the will to be guided by it” (2024, 16). By this very definition, neither managers nor inforgs are true epistemic agents. For…
For philosophy
The temptation is to think about thinking (that is, to ‘philosophise’ about philosophising) instead of simply thinking. In a way, it feels like an attempt to ‘get ahead’ of philosophy, preemptively making the path rather than allowing it to show itself as one walks through it. One reads the works of the greats and works…
Observations
How does life happen? This is the question of the observer. After the journey of the seeker who longed to know the source of all things, Being sits down in the midst of everything and observes. It seems passive. Nothing seems to be happening. The Being is not doing. What are you observing exactly? The…
“What makes life worth living?”
At the root of many moral and ethical enquiries is the question “What makes life worth living?” The question comes in various forms, such as “What does it mean to live a good life?” or “How can one be a good person?” In the end, if it equates something good with something worthwhile, then the…
low pressure area
This is where one hearsthe saddest song that brings the truest joys;this is where one seesabsolutely nothing in ways clearest;there is where one smellsthe most fragrant, encapsulating void;this is where one touchesupon the light that is nonexistent;this is where one tastesthe most delicious breathlessness—I wonder how we might come about a sort of nothingnessthat lets…
Purpose
Why do we do the things that we do? The world we live in is likely perceived to be a structured, rational one. It asks for reasons all the time. The need to give justification for something that one does or is happening seems almost intuitive that is difficult to say if it is indeed…
“When was the last time you did something new?”
Such a question rightfully invites a quick reflection on what possibilities lie outside of one’s usual. One does something new by going to a new place or doing a new thing—something unknown and extraordinary. Novelty is a panacea, almost miraculous, really. Yet if one tries to ask what exactly it is trying to cure, an…
Resentment
Resentment, like many strong and catalytic emotions, feels unnecessarily negative and complex sometimes. One may wish to be completely without it or so live with a particular kind of guilt. The feeling of resentment is deeply rooted in one’s centre, similar to a heartache, but much more subtle and numbing; it is despise mixed seamlessly…