Collections

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.—Marcel Proust

I had thought of him as funny, but that wasn’t what he was. What he was was responsive. He was fully attuned in any conversation he had. He heard what

A person can’t be contained in your ideas about them. This was a core idea for us. To whatever extent I assumed I knew who Johanna was, I treated her

If someone seems boring to you, or a bad fit, it might be that you don’t know how to prompt them, that you haven’t seen them react to the context that

Complex academic and civic results follow from a simple Pre-Texts approach: (1) Take a text. (2) Spin it using a range of available arts. (3) Reflect o

Ironically for educators and tragically for children, the sacrifice of diver-gent play to convergent correctness has kept scores down, because the test

“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean

Shimmer Around the Edges: Writing as Image Making In the recent film “The Super 8 Years,” the writer Annie Ernaux narrates over home footage taken by

The answer is yes to all the options because each depends on the others.14 Let me ex-plain: (1) Literacy needs the critical and creative agility that

Pre-Texts is a hothouse for interpersonal admiration, as a single piece of literature yields a variety of interpretations richer than any one response

Complex academic and civic results follow from a simple Pre-Texts approach: (1) Take a text. (2) Spin it using a range of available arts. (3) Reflect o

Ironically for educators and tragically for children, the sacrifice of diver-gent play to convergent correctness has kept scores down, because the test

“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained." Hegel

When I feel trapped, I ask myself, what would an artist do? —anTanas mockus

An artist has not always to finish his work . . . so he may succeed in making the spectator his co-worker.—havelock ellis, e Dance of Life

Agent” is a term thatacknowledges the small shifts in perspective and practice that AntonioGramsci described as a war of position in which organic int

Reflect-ing on them is a humanistic assignment insofar as the humanities teachinterpretation of art (to identify points of view, attend to technique,

Part ofthe work is to train free, disinterested judgment. This faculty for pausingto step back and take stock is basic to all disciplines. But the bes

There is a wide variety of reaction to the idea that other human beings com-prehend their experience in ways that are different from ours and equallyv

This issue is important because many peo-ple who have written about it, especially philosophers, have assumed thatthere is only one kind of difference

But such a view leaves out virtually every phenomenon discussed inthis book, concepts which are not to be found objectively in nature, butwhich are a

Categorization is a form of reason. To say that classical categories existexternal to any beings or any minds is to claim that there is a transcendent

There is a wide variety of reaction to the idea that other human beings com-prehend their experience in ways that are different from ours and equallyv

But such a view leaves out virtually every phenomenon discussed inthis book, concepts which are not to be found objectively in nature, butwhich are a

From the time of Aristotle to the later work of Wittgenstein, categorieswere thought be well understood and unproblematic. They were assumedto be abst

Reason, in the West, has long beenassumed to be disembodied and abstract-distinct on the one hand fromperception and the body and culture, and on the

This issue is important because many peo-ple who have written about it, especially philosophers, have assumed thatthere is only one kind of difference

But such a view leaves out virtually every phenomenon discussed inthis book, concepts which are not to be found objectively in nature, butwhich are a

CHAPTER 11The Objectivist ParadigmPhilosophy matters. It matters more than most people realize, becausephilosophical ideas that have developed over th

The objectivist paradigm can be broken down into two parts:1. Metaphysics, or the nature of the world, independent of any humanunderstanding2. Epistem

In brief, objectivism holds that reality is structured in a way that can bemodeled by set-theoretical models; that is, the world consists ofentitiesth

He robs play of its illusion-a pregnant wordwhich means literally "in-plai' (from inlusio, illudere or inludere) .

Anitnals play, so they must be more than merelymechanical things. We play and know that we play, so we mustbe more than merely rational beings, for pl

Here, then, we have the first main characteristic of play : that itis free, is in fact freedom. A second characteristic is closely connected with this

Play is distinct from "ordinary" life Qoth as to locality andduration. This is the third main characteristic of play : its secludedness, its limitedne

He robs play of its illusion-a pregnant wordwhich means literally "in-plai' (from inlusio, illudere or inludere) .

she is a philosopher of margins and paradoxes. In part because Weil’s thought defies categorization, the ways in which her ideas are taken up often sa

it's hard to think on purpose If this is our goal, then thinking on purpose becomes a useful, nay critical, habit to hone. As the genius that is Geor

the cult of unthinking I’ve come to realise that the default state of thinking in contemporary society veers much closer to unthinking than thinking o

move against your instincts A few years ago I was talking to a close friend about potentially quitting my job. She chuckled and said: “What would Ni

put yourself in situations where your values contradict each other Another method is to put yourself in situations where your own values contradict

Almost better never than this late.

weird story short:

with impartial sunlight streaming through a nearby window and picking out swirls of dust motes.

The leaves flickered across the sky, dancing with aliveness. They fastened an invisible string from the tree to my chin and lifted my face up, to form

ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

And the ancient Greek method when I was in school was to look at the ancient Greek text and locate the words that are unknown and look them up in a le

t’s something Simone Weil says in an essay she has about contradiction, because people find contradiction in philosophical texts so perplexing, and sh