San Miguel de Unamuno

                "Burdened with wisdom rather than with knowledge."    

Words

What I like about my madness is that it has safeguarded me, from the very first, against the blandishments of "the elite": I have never seen myself as the happy owner of a "talent": my one concern was to save myself--nothing in my hands, nothing in my pockets--through work and faith. Now at last my unadulterated choice did not set me up above anyone: with neither tools nor equipment, I gave my entire self to the task of saving my entire self. If I put away Salvation among the stage properties as impossible, what is left? A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.

                                                                                Jean-Paul Sartre

 

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Phenomenological Ontology

 

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Full)

On Dervishhood

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Existential Marxism

 

"But as it turns out, the news of Marxism’s death was greatly exaggerated. Now that capitalism has ruled the world unchallenged for a generation, Marxist thinking has seen a popular renewal, increasingly liberated as it has become from the old specters of McCarthyism and the Cold War. It is Sartre who tells us why: “We cannot go beyond it because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engendered it.” It is because we have not overthrown capitalism that Marxism endures—as both a philosophical orientation and a political aspiration."

Peter, Paul and Mary - A Soalin' (live in France, 1965)