summer 2024

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Additional advice about inquiring and creative life is that there’s nothing like a fiction which effectively postures itself as non-fiction. To wit: marketing secrecy about the “fact” that the extraterrestrials are among us.

Actually, the aliens are among us: artistic lives and researchers drawn into very complex interests. Being in the clouds is transcendent.

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August 15 | “some advice on inquiring and creative life.”

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"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.