Tag: life
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…
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…
On freedom
When one speaks of ‘freedom’ or ‘liberation’, an immediate thought might be the idea of the basic human rights, usually composed of aspects that address what a human person needs to survive. It is not uncommon that a rally for ‘freedom’ comes with slogans pertaining to higher wages, or ability to take paid absences from…
Framework of reference
There is an idea that knowledge and/or wisdom can be simplified into particular cognitive ‘building blocks’ put together to form (or re-form) a machine-like organ (the brain/mind or the human being itself); through this machine-like thing comes output and that the quality (or quantity) of this output is what determines the value (success/effectiveness/goodness/etc.) of the…
live like
each day is marked by a mirror to follow, in hopes of being followed though not in the way transcendent do stay still behind the glass one simply longs for a shadow to look towards the past few generations have had their chances they looked at the sun and burned; they are blinded we long…
“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…