The Spinoza Problem: Musings
My musings on Irvin Yalom’s book “The Spinoza Problem” explore the freedom of thought, body and soul.
Category: Philosophy
Life turned into philosophy with a touch of the surreal and macabre
On how we shape a free community: A letter
So far, we are still humans controlled by humans, and thus suffer the whole spectrum of human faults and errors. A letter on how we shape a free community.
Communion with Plato’s Aesthetics
There is always a danger to rationalise beauty down to the smallest particle, and it practically disappears. A philosophical letter on Plato’s Aesthetics.
Success in the underworld
Are crimes perceived as more terrible when the victims are anonymous? Anonymous victims here refer to the shadow of our soul. Success in the underworld.
Thoughts on their graves
While we have reasonable control over how we perceive ourselves in life, there is little control over how others see us in death.
On the extraordinary dynamics of play
Although they believe greater age means higher stakes, adults so learn, to Mozart’s touch, to discover what adventure is. An artistic piece on play.
What it means to be a true muse
A true muse is entirely conscious of the veil between passions of the sensual and the creative, to permit the flow between both sides, still never isolated.
On creation
A lot of what inspires creation as an artist, also inspires creation for life, andthis is not just the hunger and lust when you sense the intimacy of art, and ego. In a space contrasts, all duality creates tension; stress …
Letters relinquished
[extract taken from diary no. 34] I do not know why but I instantly knew… His last letter still hung on my wall, then he must have beenthe words on my skin, straight across myback carefully observing curves, and all …
The Engels Paradox
The spirits of Edgar Allan Poe rising in an echo, like Marx – frequently Engels – ambling in the slums of Europe but living in edged on the peripherical better parts of towns. One has always been of the opinion …