summer 2024

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I expect upcoming discussions to no longer focus on the presidential campaign (which seems fated to elect Harris). I’ll get back to engagement with practical conceptual interests.

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Sept. 11 | “For the best of America” weaves phrases from the leading speeches
of the Democratic National Convention into topics of my own. Also, the “campaign 2024” page is no longer in chronological order. The top four discussions are primary for me; the other six are supplementary now.

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Ours

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Writing for the Brookings Institute, Linda Schacht usefully highlighted
how the Democratic National Convention, 2024, showed that “a 21st century rhetoric can still inspire in a digital-visual world.” But her short discussion didn’t seek to get into the heart of Democratic mindfulness—the sense of American humanity—that was expressed across leading voices.

Those voices evinced intuitions of the best in us which ensures and advances the ever-incomplete “more perfect union” of American diversity (Our republican democracy which is Our democratic republic). Though the “spiritual” source of those kindred intuitions had no common leading constellation of values explicitly—and no explicit conception of cohering personal, interpersonal, cultural, social, and political relevance—the spirit of dearly held values belonging together was clear—and joyous.

"The World Still Needs Habermas"

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Below is a link to an aticle today in Foreign Policy magazine; and a PDF version of it.

online article: “The World Still Needs Habermas” | PDF of the article.

Facebook software won't take the above links. I had to make this posting.

Here is the Facebook posting text:
The philosopher as 20th century public intellectual
in winds of history

The article, by a well-known scholar of Habermas's political career, overviews Habermas’s legacy as advocate for collaborative politics relative to a recent book on that aspect of Habermas’s life.

“Beyond a general commitment to dialogue and cooperation," Müller notes, "his political vision entails an evolution beyond inherited ideas of ethnic nationalism and toward a cosmopolitan international legal order, each aspect of which is now increasingly under threat."

Some related Habermasian discussions I did a decade ago are here: “transnationalism.” (The font size on the page is too small, but the discussion texts are not.)

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spring 2024

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When I die, it’ll be with peaceful confidence about my integrity and lighthearted neologisms: “integrity of oneSself as neologist.”

Yet, I do live in the real world: “for united nations evolving Palestinian prosperity.”

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May 10 | Today‘s “reverie of heartfulness” prospects a concept of background (deep) Self. It isn’t sentimentalist.

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May 9 | “Immanent being in time” (May 8) and “being with ‘you’” (May 9) sketch senses of interal belonging of differentiations, from proximal phenomenality to complex interpersonal life.

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May 7 | “‘Genesis’: retrojecting articulation of being” is about immanence of feeling phenomenality.

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May 4 | Everyone wants a good story. “Resort” is about awing want.

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May 1 | “Being person-al: beyond what They say” follows directly from the second part of “It’s phenomenal” about living experience.

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winter 2024

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I’m so close to doing lots of postings regularly. But I haven’t gained closure on clarifying the internal relations of the tens of themes that postings will altogether express: an intricate weave. Like finalizing readiness to build a house: It begins with slow assembly of a design which gradually emerges.
But the point of making a house is the home which can be there, discursive homemaking to be.

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justification for neologism

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Conceptual prospecting is common in philosophical work, but may seem hermetic.

Wanting new concepts follows from working beyond confounding uses of standard ones. Experimental thinking is good! It's fun.

One can propose and explicate new senses of standard concepts (which I usually do), but new concepts can be an easier way to avoid confusion or misleading ambiguity—and avoid concealment of the better sense of a standard term (when staying with the standard term in a new way) because a reader is habituated to standard senses—seldom clear anyway, which dictionaries easily display.

autumn 2023

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“‘lifecycleness,’ so to speak” prospects a felicitous neologism for exploratory conceptual work. “Meaning of significance: part 1” begins a venture about there being texted presence between author and reader which is usually figurative (showing implicature) manifoldly. A speaker/writer is figurative because being understood is normally wanted more than expressiveness.

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