Greetings, Since dmb is sharing information, I'd like to share that Terrence Malick, the movie producer, is a Heideggerian. He's produced only a few movies, and you might enjoy them as he is exploring the Heideggarian concept of 'worlds'.
Marsha > On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:45 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Jung was the kind of thinker who could disturb the psychologists for being > too theological (Freud) and disturb the theologians for being too > psychological (Buber). It’s not that he operated in a twilight zone between > the two but Jung viewed the psyche as inherently spiritual, without > necessarily entailing any belief in the supernatural. A living religion on > his view is one that properly serves a psychological need. Not, however, as a > comforting crutch or as a bandage for one’s neurosis." > > See The Jung and the Restless @ > http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/09/28/the-jung-and-the-restless/ > > > > "People are acutely aware of the meaninglessness of their existence, and they > try to cover this up in a number of ways. By returning to forms of > traditional religion such as fundamentalist Christianity. Or by engaging in > new forms of religion—New Age belief, whether that be yoga or sitting with > crystals in your hands, finding your inner child, sitting under a pyramid, or > whatever. All of these are examples of passive nihilism. You might also try > what Nietzsche calls active nihilism, engaging in acts of terrorism or > whatever. The idea here is that, given that nothing means anything, we might > as well blow the whole place up. I would recommend neither passive nor active > nihilism, both of which seek to escape from the “meaning gap” in our lives. > The point—the point of Nietzsche’s philosophy, and of philosophy as such, in > my view—is to think within that gap and work against nihilism. To use thought > against the nihilism of the present." > > See the whole Simon Critchley interview at: > http://www.believermag.com/issues/200308/?read=interview_critchley > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
