'On the Occasion of World Philosophy Day' [I was invited to give a talk on the theme of Endarkenment. Below is my pitch. There’s slight correction from first upload] To be honest about the topic, the text I have in mind that approaches the theme of endarkenment or the concept of endarkening is the Dark … Continue reading Endarkening and the Limit of the Thinkable
Category: Kant
As to how nature becomes conceivable by its finite manifestations, or how nature is thought negatively, the task of the philosophy of nature, in a Deleuzean sense, is to deterritorialize a concept of nature known to reason. The difference between the idea of the cosmos and that of the earth is an excellent example to … Continue reading THE DELEUZE-SCHELLING CONJUNCTION
How does one explore a hermeneutic reading of nature that expands the Kantian theory of aesthetics beyond the need for beauty to support the final subjective interest of reason? As in Kant’s third Critique, this subjective interest must necessarily culminate in establishing the purposiveness of nature by moral intelligence. The recoil to subjective purposiveness demonstrates that … Continue reading Short of A Transcritique
Advanced text for Webinar on Philosophy of Nature Introduction For the first part of my discussion, I would like to begin with Aristotle, one of the most influential pagans of the ancient world, who once said that humans are ‘adapted by nature to receive virtues.’ Hundreds of centuries later, Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor, expanded on … Continue reading NATURE AS A POSTULATE
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 