Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Anticipated Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
A few notes (a half-baked short essay) about the Hungarian chemist/philosopher and the English psychiatrist/philosopher
Eric Scheske
“Live in the Now” is Bad Practical Advice
But it’s good existential advice
Do you want a piece of advice that I’ve seen recommended by sages in virtually every spiritual tradition?
Live in the present moment.
I don’t care if it’s a Muslim Sufi or a Christian mystic or an Indian yogi or a
Who is Sohrab Ahmari?
From Ouillette
McLuhan Sighting
"Philosophize This" dedicates an episode to Marshall McLuhan. It's very good.
The podcast is here.
The transcript to the podcast is here.
You ask people that question what would you rather be? Blind or deaf? And 99% of people say they'd rather be deaf.
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
From The Worthy House
A Room with a Feud
Literary criticism used to be terribly clever and terribly savage.
Ukraine: Against History and Geography
From The Hedgehog Review
Was Descartes Nuts?
The Cartesian view of the world adopts a stance normally found only in patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Referring to a famous passage from the Meditations on First Philosophy in which Descartes describes looking out of his window and seeing what he knows to be people passing by as seeming to
The Fable Behind The Master and His Emissary
The Master and His Emissary takes its title from a story by Nietzsche (McGilchrist, humorously, drops a footnote and says he can't remember where he saw it . . . and apparently the editors at Yale couldn't, either). It goes like this:
A wise spiritual master ruled a small
Orban’s victory might not make sense to the West. But it’s what Hungary wants.
From the Washington Post