Monday, April 23, 2012

anthropography

Just as an individual has a biography, so to, also with all the uncertainties and ambiguities of an individual's life, there can readily be conceived the anthropography of mankind, considered as a (in)coherent story. The idea is more inclusive than eg the German Geistesgeschichte or "the history of mankind", or "the spiritual history of mankind", "the history of ideas", etc.

It is a concept which would, as a goal, as a psychology, surpass the divisions developed during history or in academia, of eg literature, religion, philosophy, psychology, history, science, anthropology, art...the humanities, the sciences, the arts, technology....
It would be an attitude, a quest, a perspective to look at the human being -- gnothi seauton -- individually and collectively, sub specie aeternitatis, and not just sub specie scientiae, sub specie academiae.

The Consumption Cathedral

Malls throughout the world.
(The term came from writing a FB note mainly directly to a prominent Moscow sociologist.)

Devival, Devivalist, Devivalism

Nietzsche's errand in the wilderness?
No, actually more like: Nietzsche's errand into civilization, into culture, into Christianity.

evangelism vs cacangelism

As there is the evangel, and evangelist, the gospel...
So one could say that Nietzsche was an example of a cacangelist, or the opposite of gospel

Monday, April 9, 2012

Nice!

If lurking beneath each use of "nice" -- eg nice guy, nice time, have a nice day -- we learn that the etymology is...
nice
late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from O.Fr. nice "silly,foolish," from L. nescius "ignorant," lit. "not-knowing," from ne-"not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know."

Well, it could change our understanding of hearing and using it.