All those doubts about writerly aspiration, the wistful desire to be Well-Read, the shame attendant on nascent (or newly revived) aspiration--how true! This was exactly what I needed today!
Also, justice for Descartes! Even in the Meditations the guy acknowledges that the mind and the body, though conceptually and metaphysically separable…
All those doubts about writerly aspiration, the wistful desire to be Well-Read, the shame attendant on nascent (or newly revived) aspiration--how true! This was exactly what I needed today!
Also, justice for Descartes! Even in the Meditations the guy acknowledges that the mind and the body, though conceptually and metaphysically separable, come together in experience: "Nature also teaches me, through these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on, that I (a thinking thing) am not merely in my body as a sailor is in a ship. Rather, I am closely joined to it – intermingled with it, so to speak – so that it and I form a unit." And it's not just dualism he gets blamed for--wildest thing I read as a teenager was this right-wing evangelical book that blamed him for multiculturalism!
justice for Descartes indeed! the white you shared is so intriguing and so different from the exaggerated/simplified way his ideas seem to be presented?
and yes, the same associated with one’s very nascent aspirations is so real…but the only way out is through the shame
All those doubts about writerly aspiration, the wistful desire to be Well-Read, the shame attendant on nascent (or newly revived) aspiration--how true! This was exactly what I needed today!
Also, justice for Descartes! Even in the Meditations the guy acknowledges that the mind and the body, though conceptually and metaphysically separable, come together in experience: "Nature also teaches me, through these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on, that I (a thinking thing) am not merely in my body as a sailor is in a ship. Rather, I am closely joined to it – intermingled with it, so to speak – so that it and I form a unit." And it's not just dualism he gets blamed for--wildest thing I read as a teenager was this right-wing evangelical book that blamed him for multiculturalism!
justice for Descartes indeed! the white you shared is so intriguing and so different from the exaggerated/simplified way his ideas seem to be presented?
and yes, the same associated with one’s very nascent aspirations is so real…but the only way out is through the shame