Saturday, April 12, 2025
spring 2025
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The month has been productive here, but more productive offline, nearing completion of an agenda which I’ve been developing for a long while. All of
the discussions linked below were sidetrips occasioned by happenstances, unrelated to my main project. So now, all of that is filed away. I’m going a different way, a very long way, made of elemental discussions which will accumulate into large scale ventures which the elements are designed to serve.
April 6 | “after the onto-theo-logical constitution of the Holocaust.“
April 5 | “Heideger was not 'mystical’” substantially revises my long April 2 responses to a Heidegger forum posting about a forthcoming book. I’m also quoting from the editor’s reply to me.
I want to stop posting about Heidegger for a while. But also, when specific opportunity happens, I want to set up good context for later reference.
March 31 | “after Arrival responds to an online forum posting, but without unneeded reference to the posting.
March 29 | Though I’m working diligently, as far from current events as I can, avoiding Trumpism isn’t easy inasmuch as I want to stay somewhat in touch with daily news that matters.
So, like controlling a bad dream by catching it in articulation, thus deporting it from attention, I deport Trumpism.
March 20 | What’s the use of philosophy? I have the answer!—at X (screen shot there), after Philip Kitcher).
I would argue that the humanities (U. of Penn. project) make genuine demo-
cracy possible, though I see conceptual modeling differently than the U. of Penn. project.
March 16 | My extended cynicism against Bozo turns into bibliophilic hope for “moral” thinking in conceptions of educational excellence—“'Morality’s for suckers,’ Trump might say“—though “moral,” to me, is just ethical pragmatism treated as statutory norm.
My discussion leads into a sequenced sense of moral conceptuality, a specific humanity (relative to themes there—points of light—for constellating some leading minds) which can credibly ground a post-naturalistic sense of evolutionary ethics. Philosophy can pragmatically serve educational excellence, which can serve progressive practice.
March 14 | I’m working steadily, but openness to emergent themes goes where it appeals. I may have more to share next week or not. I hope to get closure on new developmental work this weekend.
