#robert solomon

[weil-weil-lautre]

Unlike resentment, indignation, and contempt, and like anger, hatred is an emotion that treats the other on an equal footing, neither degrading him as 'subhuman' (as in contempt) nor treating him with the lack of respect due to a moral inferior (as in indignation) nor humbling oneself before (or away from) him with the self-righteous impotence of resentment. There may even be a trust and intimacy in hatred that is to be found in few of the outwardly hostile emotions; it is for this reason that hatred is so akin to love, and so easily interchangeable with it, and so inevitably a part of it.

Robert Solomon, The Passions, p. 264

[bookwolfereviews]

A note on nostalgia. The part emotions play in creating identity and meaning.

A note on nostalgia. The part emotions play in creating identity and meaning.

Listening to the music of The Advisory Circle has been a fascinating experience for me. It’s a style of music which produces, quite deliberately, a profound sense of nostalgia. But what is nostalgia all about?

I strongly believe that emotions are much more than merely feelings. An emotional experience, I believe, contains a set of information about both who we are and what the world is about.

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[weil-weil-lautre]

In Nietzsche's name, the politics of university departments have been elevated to a cosmic principle, and in the hands of the scholars, whom Nietzsche so lampooned, Nietzsche has become one more text, or nontext, from which the most exotic bits of elitism are announced in the most inaccessible journals.

Robert C. Solomon, Reading Nietzsche, p. 6

[jjgrace42]

On the Blueberry Bias update

Chapter 7: Additive

Barney's gaze flicked to her, and the conversation ended. He sighed. "Whaddya want?" She opened her mouth to respond—she was just looking for Clint, after all, he should know that—but Tiboldt turned his attention to her, pale eyes looking her over. He started to smile. One of his incisors was chipped. "Well, well. Who is this?" Barney was the one that responded. "Her name's Dorothea. She keeps showin' up. Likes Clint." She gripped her bag tighter. She'd been under a microscope before. She knew what it felt like. It felt exactly like this, exactly like the way Tiboldt looked her up and down.

[faithsnippets]

[weil-weil-lautre]

[pnw-romantic]

Existentialism is not simply a philosophy or a philosophical revolt. Existentialist philosophy is the explicit conceptual manifestation of an existential attitude – a spirit of “the present age.” It is a philosophical realization of a self-consciousness living in a “broken world” (Marcel), an “ambiguous world” (de Beauvoir), a “dislocated world” (Merleau-Ponty), a world into which we are “thrown” and “condemned” yet “abandoned” and “free” (Heidegger and Sartre), a world which appears to be indifferent or even “absurd” (Camus). It is an attitude that recognizes the unresolvable confusion of the human world, yet resists the all-too-human temptation to resolve the confusion by grasping toward whatever appears or can be to made to appear firm or familiar – reason, God, nation, authority, work, tradition, or the “other-worldly,” whether of Plato, Christianity, or utopian fantasy.

Robert C. Solomon // Introduction to Existentialism

[superminisan]

For the Christian, God’s ownership is a double ownership – He owns us as our Creator and as our Saviour. We are therefore to honour God with our whole lives, including our bodies, because we have been purchased and redeemed by Christ. Thus we read in 1Cor 6:19-20, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;  you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” We do not belong to ourselves, but to God. He alone has the right to give life and take it away. This truth is further emphasised when we read Rom 14:7-8 NIV – “For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.  If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.” No one stands alone on his own, claiming absolute rights over his life and death.

Robert Solomon (http://ethosinstitute.sg/dying-faithfully-biblical-and-theological-perspectives/)