The Enlightened Virtuoso

The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Indentity in the Shadow of Domination

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"The positivity of identity logic tends, as a principle of its own health and strength, to promulgate myths of self-making, to cultiva...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Toombs and Merleau-Pontus on Phantom-Limb Syndrome and Intentionality

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“Merleau-Ponty would argue that my inability to recall or re-imagine ‘walking’ can be understood in terms of bodily intentionality. For inst...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Sociality and the Gospel

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"Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of ...

The Faces of Religion

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"Religion is an amazing phenomenon that plays contradictory roles in peoples lives. It can destroy or revitalize, put to sleep or awake...

Cornel West on the Permanance of Religion and Idolatry

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"So we have to hold onto the liberal political, moral breakthrough and try to make the breakthrough on the economic level in terms of d...

Cornel West on Prophetic Religion

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"I'm going to close with the notion of 'utopian interruptions.' What I'm talking about is always tied to failure. It...

Judaism as Redemption from Teleology

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"Arendt was clearly closer to Benjamin's counter-Messianic view. In that view, it was the suffering of the oppressed that flashed u...

Judith Butler on Religion

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"It makes a different kind of sense to refer to a secular Jew than to a secular Catholic; while both may be presumed to have departed f...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Agamben on Politics

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“There is politics because man is the living being who, in language, separates and opposes himself to his own bare life and, at the same tim...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

History within Minima Moralia

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"The knowledge that in per-history the objective tendency asserts itself over the heads of human beings, indeed by virtual of annihilat...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Concept of Enlightenment

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"Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and ins...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Quotes from Horkheimer and Adorno's Prefaces

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"The conflicts in the third world and the renewed growth of totalitarianism are not mere historical interludes any more than, according...

Quotes from Horkheimer and Adorno's Preface

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"The conflicts in the third world and the renewed growth of totalitarianism are not mere historical interludes any more than, according...

Merleau-Ponty’s Praise of Praxis

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“What Marx calls praxis is the meaning which appears spontaneously at the intersection of the actions by which man organizes his relationshi...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Simone de Beauvoir on Narcissism

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  “In fact, narcissism is a well-defined process of alienation: the self is posited as an absolute end, and the subject escapes itself in it...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Beauvoir and History

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"We have already posited that when two human categories find themselves face-to-face, each one wants to impose its sovereignty on the o...

Beauvoir's Criticism of Historical Materialism and Engels

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"Humanity is not an animal species: it is a historical reality. Human society is an anti-physis: it does not passively submit to the pr...

Beauvoir on Pyschoanalysis and Gender

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"All psychoanalysts systematically refuse the idea of choice and its corollary, the notion of value; and herein lies the intrinsic weak...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Claude Lefort on Religion

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"any society which forgets its religious basis is laboring under the illusion of pure-immanence." Claude Lefort, "The Perma...

Jürgen Habermas on the state of the Political

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"In the welfare state democracies of the latter half of the twentieth century, politics was still able to wield a steering influence on...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Christmas Eve Candleight Sermon, 2017

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John 1:1-13 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  He was in the beginning with God. 3  A...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Walter Wink on Christ's Humanity

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"And this is the revelation: God is HUMAN... It is the great error of humanity to believe that it is human. We are only fragmentarily h...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Empathy as a Component of a Larger Paradox within Traditional Psychology

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"Is it not paradoxical that no traditional psychology up to the present day has been able to give even a true exposition of perception,...

Husserl and Empathy in Crisis

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"Through the empathy of his original sphere of consciousness, through what arises out of it, as a component which is never lacking, he ...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

The three-course development of Empathy

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"Appresentation as such presupposes a core of presentation. it is a presentification combined by association with presentation, with pe...

Husserl, Empathy, and Objectivity

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"As we know, the ultimate effect of empathy is that universal superaddition of sense whereby my primordial 'world' becomes a tr...

Empathy, Husserl, and the 5th Meditation

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"So our initial concern will be with his account of how another self is even thinkable. Or rather, since all thought is a high-level, f...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Husserl, Leibniz, and Empathy

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"The enormous agreement between the two is only underlined by Husserl's one insistent departure from Leibniz: monads 'have wind...

Husserl on the Recollected Self

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"Self-temporalization through depresentation, so to speak (through recollection), has its analogue in my self-alienation (empathy as a ...

Husserl and Intersubjectivity

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"For Husserl, intersubjectivity is not some relation, within the world, that is to be observed from the outside; it is not something tr...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Husserl's Epochē and the 'Split Ego'

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"According to this splitting, the mediating self leads a double life. On the one hand, the ego continues to live naturally, absorbed in...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Husserl and Transcendental Philosophy

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"Natural human understanding and the objectivism rooted in it will view every transcendental philosophy as a flighty eccentricity, its ...

Empathy and the Lifeworld

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"But when we are thrown into an alien social sphere, that of the Negroes in the Congo, Chinese peasants, etc., we discover that their t...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Excerpt from Husserl's Letter to Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, 1935

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"Saying 'I' and 'we,' they find themselves as members of families, of associations, social units, as living 'togeth...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

The Life-world in Husserl's Crisis

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"The life-world is the natural world - in the attitude of natural life we are living functioning subjects together in an open circle of...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Philosophical Generativity

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"For philosophers of the present day the philosophical past is genuinely motivating. The peculiar modality of the horizon of the philos...

Husserl's Definition of History

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"We can now say that history is from the start nothing other than the vital movement of the being-with-one-another and the interweaving...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Husserl on 'Physico-Psychology'

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"The natural science of the modern period, establishing itself in physics, has its roots in the consistent abstraction through which it...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Husserl on Infinity and Idealization

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"But with the appearance of Greek Philosophy and its first formulation, through consistent idealization, of the new sense of infinity, ...

Take Me to Church - A Sermon from October 29th, 2017

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Reformation Sunday: Hozier and the state of the Church Twenty-two-year-old Hozier’s mid-tempo soul song is a powerf...
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