Last time, I alluded, in a footnote, to an “elsewhere” wherein William Blake clarifies his mind/body dualism position. I have since been cadged by the masses into both clarifying myself and citing my sources. This quote comes from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate IV (which I linked to in my previous post, before […]
Alright, perhaps it is not yet an official holiday (is it?), but November 28th is in fact the anniversary of the death of this remarkable British poet-artist. It has been far too long since I added a meaningful post here; I have been working on a number of new things which have simply not allowed […]
When I first read the opening from Hobbes’ Leviathan as an undergraduate, I laughed. I laughed heartily. There was something clearly, and quaintly, absurd about his simple (though perhaps vaguely Rube-Goldberg-esque) chain of mechanistic causal events which for him became the workings of the universe. From Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter 1: Of Sense: The cause […]