PinnedPaul DeFattaSome Thoughts about Meaning (7/14/2023)In what does meaning (in the existential sense of ‘the meaning of life’) consist — for me? To what extent might such meaning possess…Jul 19, 20231Jul 19, 20231
Paul DeFattaNietzsche’s Insurmountable Religious Crisis (4/12/2022)As Erich Heller notes (in his essay on Burckhardt and Nietzsche in “The Disinherited Mind”), Schopenhauer and Burckhardt were both made of…4h ago4h ago
Paul DeFattaCentering and Ripeness (4/29/2022)This is one of those mornings when I wake up feeling impregnated with some strange spawn too big for my belly to accommodate…3d ago3d ago
Paul DeFattaPhlegmbuoyancy? (6/9/2022 )Brain fog and Covid: it may be true that Covid infections result in the temporary or lasting deterioration of the cognitive functions in a…4d ago4d ago
Paul DeFatta𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻-𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 (10/14/15)In one of his books the German-Swiss existentialist philosopher, Karl Jaspers, discusses the relationship between loneliness and…4d ago4d ago
Paul DeFattaCopernican Aftershocks (6/15/22)Show me a villain and I’ll show you a man who is invested or embedded in his role in a story; a story he clings to as fiercely as any…5d ago5d ago
Paul DeFattaA Note on Meaning (7/3/2022)To acknowledge and learn to live with threadbare, precarious, provisional, metaphorical and biased meanings is significantly different from…Sep 6Sep 6
Paul DeFattaOn Jung and Hegel in the Light of Giegerich’s Radical Criticisms (9/4/2024)I am experiencing mild aftershocks following my recent reading of Wolfgang Giegerich’s radical critique of Jung’s dismissal of Hegel as a…Sep 5Sep 5
Paul DeFattaThe Other Side of the Mirror (7/11/2022)There is a kind of solitude I crave, from time to time — or perhaps more frequently than that — which is reminiscent of death, or…Sep 4Sep 4
Paul DeFattaWhere does authority come into play as a determining factor in the unfolding human life?It is extremely uncommon to be denied early access to the local conveyor belt. In effect, no matter how strange and unconventional we turn…Sep 3Sep 3