Monthly Archives: August 2011

Absolute Value – The Passing of Time versus The Living of Life

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Most people, if asked to describe pure existence, of Being, per se, might think of empty space, or some colossal unformed chunk of matter; or they might not be able to think or imagine anything at all. But the German … Continue reading →

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Music as Purposive Organization of Sounds, without an Identifiable Purpose

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

I want to post here examples of what Kant – or at least a follower of Kant – might consider fine art. That will be difficult, because the whole point of Kantian aesthetics is to prevent us ever from writing … Continue reading →

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Unsaidquarters – The Ghost Is Never Spent

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have … Continue reading →

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Circles: Infinite Expansion, Infinite Comprehension

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Man seeks unity only to escape from dissipating and confusing diversity. In order not to become lost in infinity, empty and unfruitful, he creates a single circle, visible at a glance from any point. In order to attach the image … Continue reading →

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From Dualism to a “Higher” Monism

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Romantic philosophy’s insistence that, all things properly viewed, there is no real distinction between thinking and acting; just as there is no real distinction between mind and body. In a word, the Romantic philosophers and scholars are attempting to close … Continue reading →

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Unsaidquarters – The Idea of Order

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

The heaving speech of air, a summer sound Repeated in a summer without end And sound alone. But it was more than that, More even than her voice, and ours, among The meaningless plungings of water and the wind, Theatrical … Continue reading →

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Hermeneutics and Modern Medicine

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Hermeneutics as a methodology for textual analysis – Nursing Applications AORN Journal May, 200, by Michelle Byrne Last month’s column discussed phenomenology and explained that the term hermeneutics often is used in conjunction or even in confusion with the term … Continue reading →

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Unsaidquarters – Dog Days

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

They cleared off the dogs while I still had feeling in my feet. I was beginning to feel for the safety of the changelings. Some of them brought down from the country above where the dogwatch house was set up … Continue reading →

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Yahia Lababidi – Words To Bear

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

¬ Certain words must be earned just as emotions are suffered before they can be uttered — clean as a kept promise. —Yahia Lababidi

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/Cloud/ – Conceptualizing Accumulation

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Descartes argues that we know that our bodies exist because something must be causing our impressions of them–i.e., we aren’t simply dreaming but perceived reality is actually real. Spinoza, however, disagrees. He argues instead that bodies do not affect the … Continue reading →

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