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"Why is there being and not rather nothing?" “I thought that was Leibniz: why all this rather than nothing?” “That's right, originally it is Leibniz' sentence, but later Heidegger were also very intensively busy relating to that sentence. Heidegger meant, inter alia, that in situations of ...

“Any perception of Rorty as a regular analytic philosopher during this first period of his career, however, one who was later to 'lose his faith' or become 'disappointed', would require the support of some very selective quotation from what he was actually writing. The first sentence of his first pu...

Note: in the following, which will go on for several weeks, I will be focused on Rorty and his book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. It will start with James Tartaglia’s Routledge Guide to the book and finish with the book itself. The main thing to note here is that this study, like every study ...

I've always thought of my work as glaring off into the distance while someone pats it on the head and says:


"How cute! It's want's to be a work of art!"

Efficiency: Intro: There has lately, in America, been a major push by Democrats to increase the minimum wage. And while some of us can applaud the effort and see the short term benefits, and even support it in that capacity, we can’t help but look at the long term deficiencies. While it may well cr...

The following are 2 writings I have come up for an open submission concerning the issue of how to best organize society, both surrounding the issue of efficiency. Hopefully one of them will offer you the cliff notes on what I’m getting at with this issue: You are an efficiency: that which is maximi...

Of course, the individual, as supra efficiency of coexistence to their given sub efficiencies, is also a sub efficiency to their given social situation. They always have to interact with their family and social circles, their workplace, and their social and political environment. And these social st...

“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the Id. Everywhere it is machines –real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven ...

Efficiency, a mechanical term used for equipment such as pumps, boilers, HVACs, etc., concerns the actual output of a system as compared to its theoretical rating and is a product of the differential between what the designer’s mathematics tell them (what something should be able to do) and what act...

Efficiency: There has lately, in America, been a major push by Democrats to increase the minimum wage. And while some of us can applaud the effort and see the short term benefits, and even support it in that capacity, we can’t help but look at the long term deficiencies. While it may well create dem...

The Comeback or how I Crossed My Bridge: Of course, some true believers, those with the taste and the honesty to know bad cinema when they see it, would argue that it is unfair to judge Rand’s book, and the ideas behind it, on a badly made movie, that I should read the book. And outside of the most...

How I Faltered and the Plot Thickened: I mean: why? Why did they even go through with this? Who would push such a project? They had to have seen how badly the whole project was developing. Wouldn't the stilted dialogue have been a clue? Were the Koch brothers behind it? It just seemed self defeatin...

Watching Atlas Shrugged: My Struggle (and rise) as a Fascist Looter. How I Got My Start: I tried to take the high road and give it a chance. I really did. But then I had tried as much with Rand and The Virtue of Selfishness, but got so nauseous by the third essay, I had to put it down. And nothing ...