nobyeni
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To Think…
To think is to question everything, including thought, and question, and the process. To question requires that something happens that reason has not yet known. Non-Western traditions of thought have a quite different attitude. What counts in their manner of questioning is not at all to determine the reply as soon as possible, to seize and exhibit some object which…
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Speak in your voice. Speak as you.
Defying what is said in this article, I am going to quote a part I especially liked, as it is so very true that I feel it in my bones… “…Which might well be why Nietzsche warned us: beware of your followers. Not so much that they may betray you (it didn’t hurt the legacy…
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Turkey and the Illusion of Democracy
Upheaval in Turkey. Government responding to peaceful protest. Tear gas. People died and are still dying. At this moment it is unclear what is actually happening, but at least it is clear that something is going on. What am I to do, far away, in my comfortable home? I can share my thoughts. Not regarding…
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Lyotard & My Fear for New Humans
Why is the idea of a possible future in which non-humans are capable of doing what humans can (referring not to the enormous amount of unbelievable irrelevant things, but: reflexive thought) so frightening? Shouldn’t I be just as frightened about my human neighbour when it comes to my being, my ability to ‘earn a living’? Isn’t every…
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Social Empowerment – a Way towards a Social Minimum of Justice
One way to look at global justice is to find a way to define a social minimum according to which global justice can be defined. Although there are many different ways in which this minimum as the core of global social justice can be defined, I’d like to take a look at the so-called capabilities approach. I…
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What if all first pages would sound like this?
What value is, what sure is, what man is, these questions are taken to be dangerous and shut away again pretty fast. It is said that they open the way to ‘anything goes’, ‘anything is possible’, ‘all is worthless’. Look, they add, what happens to the ones who go beyond this limit: Nietzsche taken hostage…
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Injustice
Lately I’ve been getting more convinced of something I’ve been thinking for quite some time now… that we, human beings, make our lives so difficult for ourselves. But even when you’ve realized this, it’s hard to distance yourself and get over things. Injustice is one of those things I can’t get over easily. Especially in…
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Academic life…
“…the customary academic suspicion of anything that is not guaranteed to be mediocre…” ~ Hannah Arendt
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Rebuilding Trust: Who to Trust in a Nihilist World?
People often wonder what they would do in grave situations. Would they jump in the water to save a person from drowning? Or would they look the other way? Discussions regarding this often surmount to a general shrugging of the shoulders: we don’t know, how could we know and let’s leave it at that. In…
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Koninginnedag 2013
Er is geen grootsheid. In deze tijd, waarin we kunnen overzien hoeveel mensen er zijn op de wereld, beseffen we ons dat wanneer wij als individu ons potentieel niet waarmaken, we niet onze plek innemen en onze bijdrage leveren, er genoeg anderen zijn die die plek voor ons invullen. Wellicht niet omdat zij op hun…