7.6.14
Dianoetic
Ethical selving
Metaxological
Shout-out
Chiaroscuro
Enabling repertoire of self-becoming
Agapeic, overdetermined origin
Power of affirmation
Milieu of the good
Pre-determined being
I never even imagined that I would become a pornography activist!
The goodness of being
Subtle constancies that emerge out of forms of being-together
Possibilize
William Desmond
Potencies & senses of being
Antinomy
The ethos of being
Being & the Between
Ethics & the Between
God & the Between
Idiotics
Agapeics
Philosophical systematics & religious poetics
Intimate universal
Counterfeit doubles
What we ought to be (now) is nothing qualitatively different from what are to be (ultimately)!
Porous boundaries
Self-mediation
Determinacy
New media
Attentive mindfulness of the other & self-determination
Transpersonal
Hyperboles of being
Conceptual possession & philosophical exorcism!
Passio essendi
mirabile dictu
Totalizer
De rigueur
Laicization
Determinate reconfigurations of the primal ethos
Ontological promise
Plurivocity
8.6.14
Conceptual colonisation of Christianity
Distinguish:
Objective
&
Absolute
Systematic completeness & dialectical negativity
“Thinking on the things themselves”
Traduce
Distinguish:
Freedom
&
Autonomy
Being out beyond
Claims of dubious grandeur
The self-encirclement & self-laceration of narcissism!
Friendly fire
Community of belief & true piety
Scholastic technique
Metaphysical astonishment
“Barbarism of reflection”
Fluid intermediacy
Default atheism
Intellectual seriousness & spiritual reverence
The matrix of value
From ratio to intellectus
Patience ~ passion
Mindful being
Strong intuition
Reaching beyond understanding & staying in mystery
The subject, the context & the object
Reconfigure/reimagine
Light, things, reflections & shadows
More than the whole
Etsi Deus non daretur
Postulatory finitism
Totalising discourses
Comportment
The open whole
Excess of being
Determinate & self-determining totality
Between contemplation & reflection
Constitutionally explorative
A plurivocal voice to sing forth the gift of being’s self-offer
Fundamental possibilities of minding & being
Familiality
Genuine knowledge of otherness manifest in human self-transcendence
The intelligibility of being as between
Vico
Vamp
Glissando
The poetic, rhetorical & encyclopaedic elements of philosophy
Surrender to equivocity
Unmediated difference
Ecotecture
Contributing to the very problems we aspire to solve!
Master-slave thought
Rescuing dialectics from univocity
Metaphysical structures
Our views of being
Ways of being in the world of things
Post-Cartesian
Post-Kantian
Post-Hegelian
Apotheosis
Nature as other-being
A superior transcendence
Vs.
Our own immanent self-transcendence
Ways to GOD
We must all continue to be influenced by diverse sources, and resist the temptation to bring others under the spell of our own mentors. This will result in a much more complementary/complimentary, rich & tensive community!
Furor
Putative
The indefinite, overdetermined primordial ethos
Intelligiblizing
A particular complex order/network of determinate happenings & relations
Dominant contemporary configurations
Elemental ontological resource
Perdure
Ephemeral gods
Precipitating occasion
Proofs (for the existence of GOD) as probes
A communicative sign, token, clue
The unconditioned as regulative ideal
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There is a right way to scold, & a wrong way to scold
Forms of life
Being in relation (to the other)
Historical relativism
Religious being – our perplexity about the ultimate
The given/ontological/truth and the good/ethical/meaning
Determinate relations
“That it is at all”
“Coming to be”
Unearthing the presupposed & gazing into it
Mindful dwelling
Why should I always be doing something? Why can’t I just be someone?!
If I can already read & understand William Desmond, why should I study M.A. Philosophy in college and then teach others who don’t want to learn?
Unconditional demand
Conditional occurences
The hospitality of the ethos of being
Communicative, immanent signs
Complex fragility
Absolute charge
The pathway of inwardness
Original givenness
Within the immanent exigence of the ethical (the call of the Good)
Object => desire, then desire => object
Ground of the ethos
Categories & arguments
Enabling resources of intelligence & value
Totality of finite determinations or a self-determining totality
Constitutive openness
Double call on our mindfulness – ontological exploration of what is given in immanence and a metaphysical transcending in immanence to what exceeds any totalized immanence.
The transcendent as the ground (source/basis) of the immanent
Unremitting immanence
The middle
The whole – the totality of immanent being
Ontological endowment
The origin/the beyond
Thinking from the midst
Sublationary infinitism
The borderline between the finite & the infinite
Signs of transcendence within immanence – hyperboles of
being
The “too muchness” of immanent being
Demur
Between object & subject
The middle way
Conceptual hubris
Rational idols
Counterfeit doubles
A new poverty of philosophy
Listening to the voices of important others
Metaxological metaphysician
Metaphysical therapy
Thinking of GOD > the meaning of being
Onto-theology & divine revelation
Metaxu + logos
…our efforts to make intelligible sense of our being in the midst of things.
Fundamental senses always already at work
GOD (transcendent source) => primal ethos (immanent being/Word) => secondary ethos (Man)
Rich singularity, intricate communications, and complex intermediations
Given metaxological community of being
Immanent articulation of transcendent communications
The fourfold sense of being
Love:
Self including the other
Cancelling the self for the sake of the other
Self & other held together in GOD
The supreme form of an encompassing self-mediation of the whole that includes all differences within itself.
The irreducible pluralism of intermediations
The all-inclusive self-mediation of dialectical-speculative totality
The immanent between & the transcendent between
What happens when the teacher himself later cancels out all his former teachings?! What do the disciples do then?? They must choose between following the teachings & loving the teacher……!
Universal impermanence
Porous passing beyond
Multiple differences & mediations
Stirring constancies
Holism
Enigmatic origin
Ultimate transcendence as other to the immanent between
The effort to articulate what the fullest senses of being communicate
Metaxological systematics
A disciplined understanding of enabling connections… interplays exceeding the closure of every whole on itself!
I am NOT one of you, folks!
Original porosity – passion of being => religious poetics => artistic expression => philosophical systematics
A being between
A medium of passage
Religious being => being religious
The extremes of religiosity might find itself called to the impossible finesse of prophetic mindfulness or mystical love.
Coming to be
Tutelary divinity
From now onwards, my inward life (& intimate love) alone will be proactive, & all other aspects like chores, ministry will only be reactive.
Immanent openness to otherness and metaphysical hospitality to transcendence
The idiocy of being
The incarnate glory of aesthetic happening
Contingency & finitude
Self-surpassing
Self-overcoming
Self-transcending
Passion => compassion
Laughter => style
Passion as intensive intimacy
Gifted
Beyond (& beneath) method/technique
Ineluctable singularity
Uniqueness ~ idiosyncrasy ~ eccentricity!
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