Hegellian Gleichgültigkeit is the basic principle for a great relationship with humanity. This is true indifference, just an absolute “0” with no positive or negative. In such a state it is unclear whether a person despises everyone or loves everyone. In reality, all of us (or most of us who aren’t mother Theresa or a murdering sociopath) oscillate between these two extremes, but if we can manage indifference that’s when they both come to rest. This is Stoic ataraxia in practice. A person comes through to those who are around him as “hominus urbanus”, but who know what’s on his mind. Is it love for humanity? Is it contempt? It is actually neither, it is indifference. I think it is also a root of true modesty. Don’t care about what others think of me at all. Not just “don’t care”, but really others do not exist in that respect, complete calm. And so the person walks around in the shadows, avoids all nuisance and everyone around him thinks he is just modes. Grigoriy Perelman refusing his million dollar awards would be a great example.
Husserl: Imagination
In Ideas 1, for the thousandth time arguing against psychological roots of pure knowledge. What about the “bathing centaur” objection? Well, true, this thing does not exist and is entirely a product of our imagination, but (cool part) one should not confuse a Wesen and a Wesensbewustsein, i.e., production of an essence with that of essence awareness. In other words, there is no psychological creation of essences (which is the adversarial argument), imagination is only producing awareness of these essences.
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Глебыч
Кто-нибудь когда-нибудь призовет Александра Глебыча к ответу за то, что он нагло врет? Например “бытовые неудобства” евреев в Египте: это что же, указ об уничтожении всех новорожденных мальчиков “бытовое неудобство”? А утверждение, что советская власть не гнобила священнослужителей? Товарищи верующие, скажите же что-нибудь!
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Герменевтика
Что я читал в прошлом году? Ну полгода читал Герменевтику Гадамера, потом еще с Киеркегором разбирался, Гуссерля было тоже много, классику читал: Аристотеля (наверное, уже не помню). Гадамер это интересно, что там Шлеермахер считал в плане герменевтики – не понял вообще. В конце-концов Гадамер бросает свои рассуждения на 600 страниц и переходит к совершенно мистической интерпретации: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος. В начале было слово, т.е. каждое слово творит, подобно божьему слову. Но божье слово действительно творит, а человеческое творит идею. This is kinda neat.
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Heidegger, Buddhism.
Zizek writes, that the difference between Heidegger and Buddhism is that according to the former, Sein needs a Dasein that thinks about it, while according to the latter Sein needs nothing (goal being a complete absorption of Dasein in the Sein). Well, yes. This is like much of Zizek: really entertaining, but why would I even begin to compare Heidegger and Buddhism? I could, but the latter seems irrelevant in understanding the former. Or vice versa.
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Vita Contemplativa 