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Did you ever have a dream where you found new rooms in your home? I had one some months ago, when I didn't have that feeling in my waking life at all. Now, at the end of one job and one degree, I've got some of that glow. This is what neurogenesis feels like, methinks. It's about time, too - I suspect I have a case of cortisol burn.
Last night was Play, an art party. Picture a bar full of people painting and drawing. Making odd objects out of plasticine and pipe cleaners. Also, a table for dominoes. It was magnificent, like an ironic twist brought 360 degrees to become sincere again.
This summer, I'd like to get to know Hegel. What I'm after is metaphysics in motion. The temptation to produce metaphysical systems is the temptation to draw in detail the shape of the intellectual horizon. However, Wittgenstein reminds us: "In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought)." But of course the horizon is not a clear and fixed point - it is both a more-or-less kind of thing, and constantly evolving. Perhaps we could become aware of the horizon, and give provisional accounts of what it may look like, based on what it has looked like in the past. We may hope for speculative accounts of what it may look like in the future.
Last night was Play, an art party. Picture a bar full of people painting and drawing. Making odd objects out of plasticine and pipe cleaners. Also, a table for dominoes. It was magnificent, like an ironic twist brought 360 degrees to become sincere again.
This summer, I'd like to get to know Hegel. What I'm after is metaphysics in motion. The temptation to produce metaphysical systems is the temptation to draw in detail the shape of the intellectual horizon. However, Wittgenstein reminds us: "In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought)." But of course the horizon is not a clear and fixed point - it is both a more-or-less kind of thing, and constantly evolving. Perhaps we could become aware of the horizon, and give provisional accounts of what it may look like, based on what it has looked like in the past. We may hope for speculative accounts of what it may look like in the future.