Cairnbuilder
(Imaginative Philosophy Blog)
A cairn is a manmade pile of stones often used as a simple trail marker in open terrain. An inukshuk, for example, is a cairn.
This blog is the author’s own cairn-building: small pathmarks left along the way of thinking. Each post is an essay in the original sense — a loose, exploratory attempt to put thought into writing, with no greater aim than self-expression.
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The Future of Possibility from Aristotelian Modality to Nietzschean and Bergsonian Creativity (Part 1)
This short essay is the first of a two-part exploration of modern conceptions of possibility. It traces the modern rebellion against antiquity’s deterministic framing of possibility as constrained…
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Re-thinking Ethics in Existentialism
The following is an essay published by the author in Gnosis, issue XI(1), 2010. Abstract: This essay explores the thought of Heidegger and Sartre concerning whether existentialism is…
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A Relaxed Approach to the Moment in Heidegger
A moment of your time… Let’s do Heidegger differently. No dense prose, no mystifying hyphenated jargon—just the real thing: here, right now. For whatever reason, we’re here—reading this.…
4 min read
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Athena as Goddess of the (Thinking) Heart
This is a short philosophical meditation on the effect of the rise of philosophy as a discipline on the psychosomatic world of the Archaic Greeks. We say that…
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