Tag: life
What does it take for one to live a good life?
What does it take for one to live a good life? I think I remember writing an essay with a similar title some time ago, around when I was working on the first module of my Advanced Reflexive Metaphysics course. Do I even remember my answer back then? I wonder how much has changed. Maybe…
antukin
maaliwalas na babangon ang mga antukin at sila’y sa wakas tatanungin ano nga bang panaginip ang maaari kung kaya tanghali na at kayo’y tulog pa rin bakit sa hinaba-haba ng mga oras at sasabihin nananatiling katahimikan at bulung-bulungan ang tinig ng inyong mga paghikab
Image and Imagination: International Conference on Paul Ricoeur and Philosophy for Our Time (Soochow University, Taiwan 2025)
Last May, I joined the Image and Imagination Conference in Soochow University in Taiwan. I presented my paper titled “Productive Imagination as an Educational Theory of Knowledge”. The abstract is as follows: What is the role of imagination in the learning process? To answer this question, one might primarily consider imagination as a marginal concept…
Shadows
Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā, manasā ce paduṭṭhena bhāsati vā karoti vā, tato naṁ dukkham-anveti cakkaṁ va vahato padaṁ Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā, manasā ce pasannena bhāsati vā karoti vā, tato naṁ sukham-anveti chāyā va anapāyinī. (Yamakavaggo, Dhammapada verses 1 and 2) —— It is a rare thing to pray for shadows. We usually pray for…
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…
Metaphysical hunger
“It is from Plato that we inherit two basic lines of thinking about the body, which I will oversimplify here for the sake of argument. The first is that philosophy consists in the pursuit of truth, which is attained through thinking, and analogous to erotic desire. Second, this pursuit is hindered rather than helped by…
On intellectual work
“Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will to renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of the work; acquire that state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the intellectual…
Pretty musings that are apparently untitled
One glimpse at the overwhelming finitude that is day-to-day life is more than enough for a never-ending stream of writing. That, in part, seems to lead to a hesitation to write—as an idea, there seems to be just so much to write about and starting is, therefore, an impossible venture; do I begin chronologically or…
Not absurdism
The idea that the enframing of technology is pithy for our existential wisdom is becoming clearer, though I am unsure whether I still agree with the thought of its dangers. I realised, upon putting down my phone after searching through Instagram quickly after having been ‘pinged’ by a Messenger notification, that if one does not…
Engineering
I engineer my poetry They need not feelings, proper art, true humanity They consist only of words pretending to have some substance—I like playing with letters seriously Words I can never get a hold of in tangible reality how fast do the distant hearts beat in juxtaposition to each other and what other sensations can…