"The emotions are imperious; they cannot be braked or polished into conventional ways of 'beauty' or 'symmetry.' They must explode as felt - in the rawness of palpable, visceral, painful, challenging, scraping, scourching self-discovery. For there to be unity, there must first be a plunge into and through the agony of separateness."

Del comentario de Nat Hentoff a Meditations de John Coltrane.

raro

Note ud. el escudo en la esquina superior izquierda.

"El Indio Amazónico es bondadozo,

y ayuda a todo el mundo

porque es religiozo y no falla en una."

Muy recomendado leer el perfil del Indio Amazónico.

un poco de belleza posmoderna, parte II

"I think that the Socratic idea of self-knowledge is replaced among contemporary intellectuals by the Nietzschean idea of self-creation, so that the life of the intellectual is not a matter of finding out what has been inside himself or herself all the time; it's a matter of becoming someone new.

And the same for societies: Social progress is not a matter of discovering the essential nature of the State, or of one's Nation, or of one's society; it's a matter of becoming a more rich and interesting society than in the past."

Richard Rorty

(Video encontrado en el blog de Juan Buridán.)

on the search for clarity

"After all, the only concept Plato succeeded in defining was mud (dirt and water)."

Donald Davidson: "Afterthoughts". Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective.

un poco de belleza posmoderna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHk0YU_17c

la familia es fragilidad en medio de la fuerza y fuerza en la fragilidad.