on 01-Sep-2016 (Thu)

monks and nature. interpreting signs.

monks and books

monks and books. reading

collecting your thoughts - philosophical practice. shift?

"Two realities" sounds like Teddy Mop two ages.

philosophy as preparation for death

are there other traditions that use this imagery or idea of "becoming fire"?

also Origenism? psuchestai

philosophical examen

If we equivocate religion with "pre-reflective" experience, then can religion never be philosophical? I assume that philosophy demands some form of reflection. Even philosophy as ascetic practice or a way of life demands some kind of examen, reflection, or monitoring of progress.

Aristotle definition of emotions

examples of Aristotle, Sartre, and Kierkegaard.
That anger, shame, guilt, and dispair are post-reflective and require a large amount of self-consciousness in some form or another.

Proudfoot - there are no intrisically moral, aesthetic, religions (etc.) experiences. There are only modes of interpretation.

Emotion as concept. Emotion words link personal (private?) experience to a conceptual network of context/culture/etc.

Link to note: emotion as concept. An emotion is not a name for something. It designated a relation. Contra (James?) bodily change.

The reduction and focusing of ritual attention heightens sensitivity to anomalies. Affects.