Thursday, May 31, 2007

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Empathizing with one's genes (or the gene's identity)

How is gene decay going to be integrated into subjectivity, once it is made apparent that one's lifespan is determined via this process?

Friday, May 18, 2007

Friday, May 11, 2007

Faderzzzz

Hegelian Jazz

In this externalisation of the good from human affairs we see forming what Hegel calls the unhappy consciousness. This, Hegel associates with much of the early Christian era when people turned away from the world through ascetic and monastic life and prayer.

Of course, for Hegel, each of these stages is an attainment, the achievement of the unhappy consciousness is the truth of the will, which has been trained and nurtured though the ascetic life.

The contradictions in the unhappy consciousness are given some resolution in the person of Jesus Christ. Here the temporal and eternal are combined and held up toward a higher plane wherein life now posits an afterlife. Yet it remains an unhappy consciousness since all goodness is alienated in God or in the afterlife.