Spirit of Nature
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Currently reading Goethe and Schelling
Schelling draws the concepts of unlimited and limitation (akin somewhat to matter and form but not exactly) from Plato's Philebus. But as Naomi Fisher says, Schelling infuses more activity to 'limitation' than Plato does to mere 'limit'
May 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Schelling draws the concepts of unlimited and limitation (akin somewhat to matter and form but not exactly) from Plato's Philebus. But as Naomi Fisher says, Schelling infuses more activity to 'limitation' than Plato does to mere 'limit'
President Stancil but a few years before his election
February 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
President Stancil but a few years before his election
Shades of Young Marx in this passage from Capital. Very much a recapitulation of Species-being
January 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Shades of Young Marx in this passage from Capital. Very much a recapitulation of Species-being
Stupid and masturbatory to be wishcasting about 2026 this early, I know, but holy shit this is so funny. Yes NC GOP please kick out your incumbent for Lara Trump during a potential blue wave year
January 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Stupid and masturbatory to be wishcasting about 2026 this early, I know, but holy shit this is so funny. Yes NC GOP please kick out your incumbent for Lara Trump during a potential blue wave year
Let me in! This one had some good graphs :(
January 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Let me in! This one had some good graphs :(
I believe in time-travelling immortal God-president Truman theory.
January 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I believe in time-travelling immortal God-president Truman theory.
Frankly there is only one man who can fix the collective gestalts' perception so as to make a perfect reality
He even kinda looks like Stancil
He even kinda looks like Stancil
January 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Frankly there is only one man who can fix the collective gestalts' perception so as to make a perfect reality
He even kinda looks like Stancil
He even kinda looks like Stancil
Left taking a nativist turn
January 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Left taking a nativist turn
When someone says something so teleophobic you have to give them the orthogenesis stare
January 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
When someone says something so teleophobic you have to give them the orthogenesis stare
His Majesty has weighed in at last
December 28, 2024 at 8:48 PM
His Majesty has weighed in at last
A rather ecological viewpoint from Kant's pre-critical period. I don't know if this persists into his later works.
December 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
A rather ecological viewpoint from Kant's pre-critical period. I don't know if this persists into his later works.
It's interesting Schelling doesn't cite Leibniz as much as he does Spinoza since his description of potencies ascending through nature seems very similar to the monads, particularly the idea that lower monads are like the higher but in sleeping form ––so organic perception is latent in all matter
!["After we wrest the product away from the first construction [of fundamental forces], we will have forever given it life and made it capable of all the higher potencies. We will find that uniform nature which forever repeats itself only in higher potencies repeats all the functions of the preceding potency even in the organism, and indeed here in the function of sensibility" from Schelling's "On the True Concept"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knlj226bmmzfa4t2laz3spn4/bafkreidbgy2bebdtay26im3vue5nheyfkrtyjcmorbctudcrit3d2jpace@jpeg)
December 14, 2024 at 12:54 AM
It's interesting Schelling doesn't cite Leibniz as much as he does Spinoza since his description of potencies ascending through nature seems very similar to the monads, particularly the idea that lower monads are like the higher but in sleeping form ––so organic perception is latent in all matter
Yo was Timaeus a Kantian?
December 6, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Yo was Timaeus a Kantian?
German idealism background reading
December 5, 2024 at 7:15 PM
German idealism background reading
Impressed that this business handbook gave a succinct left-wing critique of leninist forms of unionism
December 4, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Impressed that this business handbook gave a succinct left-wing critique of leninist forms of unionism
You are merely a soldier of Nothing ever Happens
But he is its general
But he is its general
November 26, 2024 at 8:12 AM
You are merely a soldier of Nothing ever Happens
But he is its general
But he is its general
Goes on to observe (as others have) that mechanical philosophy was informed by classical mechanics, while dynamism in nature wouldn't emerge until more sophisticated chemistry and especially biology
November 26, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Goes on to observe (as others have) that mechanical philosophy was informed by classical mechanics, while dynamism in nature wouldn't emerge until more sophisticated chemistry and especially biology
Engel's summation of modern philosophy (very clearly in the wake of German idealism)
November 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Engel's summation of modern philosophy (very clearly in the wake of German idealism)
Singapore is home to all the major religions of the world: Hinduism, Taoism and Anglicanism (and maybe a few others)
November 22, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Singapore is home to all the major religions of the world: Hinduism, Taoism and Anglicanism (and maybe a few others)
Might have a devecon relapse if I get my hands on this
November 18, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Might have a devecon relapse if I get my hands on this
On the possibility of a speculative physics, which is to cognise Nature as a thing-in-itself (rather than mere products/appearances/phenomena) in a way Kant and Fichte didn't believe was possible.
November 15, 2024 at 5:55 PM
On the possibility of a speculative physics, which is to cognise Nature as a thing-in-itself (rather than mere products/appearances/phenomena) in a way Kant and Fichte didn't believe was possible.