"Un Largo Adiós" (The Long Goodbye) es el título de una novela  de Raymond Chandler de 1953,  convertida en película por Robert Altman en 1973. La encarnación del detective Philip Marlowe por Elliot Gould fue muy buena. Hoy Un Largo Adiós es solamente un título excelente, que podría ser otro, para un adiós no muy … Continue reading Un Largo Adiós

The Quadrature is the “halo” described here by Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Thought is surrounded by a halo. Its essence, logic, presents an order, in fact the a priori order of the world: that is, the order of possibilities. which must be common to both world and thought. But this order, it seems, must be utterly simple. … Continue reading Wittgenstein: “Thought is Surrounded by a Halo”

The painting Les Deux Carrosses by Claude Gillot presents a scene of street-level conflict where two carts pulled by servants are blocking each other. The characters in the painting, arranged around the binary opposition of the cart pullers (who are almost touching) gesticulate grotesquely. One of them is masked, and all are dressed in rich … Continue reading Les Deux Carrosses by Claude Gillot (circa 1707)

To what extent is human life natural? To what extent is it natural life? This is the fundamental un-answered question of anthropology. On all sides, on all related sciences there is an assumption that human life is different –either superior or inferior—but essentially different to nature. The presumption is that human life is either extraordinary … Continue reading Human Life And Natural Life

In the Monadologie (1714), G. W. Leibniz writes: “And there must be simple substances, since there are compounds; for a compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simple things.” -  tr. Robert Latta.  (“Einfache Substanzen muß es geben, weil es zusammengesetzte gibt; denn das Zusammengesetzte ist nichts, als eine Anhäufung oder ein aggregatum … Continue reading A Logical Argument

“Men do not know how to make themselves important and make themselves great. Thus there are no lengths (of evil) they don’t go to. Since they do not make themselves important, things become important and their own state of being becomes unimportant. Since they do not make themselves great, things become great and their own … Continue reading “A Swindle”

"But how does the thinker shelter the truth of be-ing, if not in the pondering steadiness of the path of his questioning steps and their resulting consequences? Unpretentiously, as in a solitary field, under the big sky, the sower paces off the furrows with a heavy, faltering step, checking at very moment, and with the swing … Continue reading Sheltering

In his book “Infanza e Storia” – 1978  (“Infancia e Historia - Destruccion De La Experiencia Y Origen De La Historia” , translated by Silvio Mattoni into Spanish and published by Adriana Hidalgo in 2004), Giorgio Agamben writes: “ “En la  actualidad,  cualquier discurso sobre la  experiencia debe  partir  de la  constatación de  que  ya  … Continue reading Hubo Historia, pero ya no la hay

A fragment from “Contributions to Philosophy” – M. Heidegger, translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly, Indiana University Press, 1999. “5. For the Few and the Rare “For the few who from time to time again ask the question, i.e., who put up anew the essential sway of truth for decision. “For the rare who … Continue reading For the Few and the Rare

“Besinnung ist der Mut, die Wahrheit der eigenen Voraussetzungen und den Raum der eigenen Ziele zum Fragwürdigsten zu machen.” - (M. Heidegger, "Die Zeit des Weltbildes" - 1938 - Holzwege, page 75)