tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post3655077384249214533..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: Logos, face, śūnyatāskholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-66686831237152146872011-02-12T11:10:08.385-08:002011-02-12T11:10:08.385-08:00Hi Michael, & welcome. A perusal of your blog...Hi Michael, & welcome. A perusal of your blog posts shows up a number of other thinkers we seem to esteem in common, including Shestov. Consider yourself bookmarked.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-38843143510267860682011-02-11T17:20:19.657-08:002011-02-11T17:20:19.657-08:00I just found your blog as a result of a Google sea...I just found your blog as a result of a Google search for blogs that mention Maximus the Confessor. I thoroughly agree with you that he is terribly underrated as a philosopher. For me, he is a sort of touchstone thinker. You also mentioned Knud Ejler Løgstrup and Michel Henry - two others I'm quite familiar with. And, in another post here somewhere, I saw that you mentioned John Holt, another favorite of mine. I have a feeling I'll be spending quite bit of time here. My latest post on <a href="http://extravagantcreation.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">my blog</a>, which has to do with Maximus' thoughts on the virtues, may be of interest to you.Michael McIntyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294929089322964727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-4834737244487130402010-11-16T16:48:50.506-08:002010-11-16T16:48:50.506-08:00Wow I'm getting into this now. The phrase &quo...Wow I'm getting into this now. The phrase "goes itself" is also rather wonderful no? Like "goes green." Fantastic post.Timothy Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-36550294192477400012010-11-14T07:49:23.323-08:002010-11-14T07:49:23.323-08:00Thanks, Tim. I also hope you liked the Hopkins.Thanks, Tim. I also hope you liked the Hopkins.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-2799768303333463922010-11-13T22:06:46.248-08:002010-11-13T22:06:46.248-08:00Thanks for that comment on mine. There's a who...Thanks for that comment on mine. There's a whole lot of Levinas in <i>The Ecological Thought</i>. Happy to have company in all this.Timothy Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-59888205405097495042010-11-13T20:27:04.232-08:002010-11-13T20:27:04.232-08:00Tim, I don't know where you will go with your ...Tim, I don't know where you will go with your critique of Burke/Kant via Longinus, but as for me, I sense a kind of ethical as well as aesthetic dimension to the encounter with the sublime. Also, credit where it's due, your claim emptiness = withdrawal, whether or no it is strictly the Dharma, was one of those connections that made me sit up and say Ah-- now I can see my way forward. The <i>creatio ex nihilo</i> angle that of course is crucial here for understanding this via Maximus (though I am not sure Maximus would approve). I am reading Nishitani again, and more thoughts will perhaps coalesce into another post. Any further thoughts of yours are most welcome. I think much better with dialogue.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-77765349660604882742010-11-13T19:10:36.496-08:002010-11-13T19:10:36.496-08:00Whoah.
http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/...Whoah. <br /><br />http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2010/11/skholiast-buddhism-lingis-levinas.html<br /><br />Almost telepathic...Timothy Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-71765404587624163752010-11-10T20:19:45.129-08:002010-11-10T20:19:45.129-08:00Amod,
thanks much. I don't know how else to t...Amod,<br /><br />thanks much. I don't know how else to think about these things except as an ongoing conversation between all the sundry influences on me-- not all of which are what are billed as "philosophy," of course. <br /><br />At your suggestion, I looked again at Santideva -- it has been a long while and I no longer recall what version with commentary I read. The <a href="http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/x/pdf/?type=pdf&book=true&path=/web/x/prn/p.html_1487505749.html&__locale=en" rel="nofollow">online version</a> that I found is translated by Alexander Berzin, and I find it somewhat terse. However, there's a quite good <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/santideva/" rel="nofollow">commentary</a> which you may know, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and following it I begin to see how one would possibly extend this from the mostly human others that (I think) Santideva has in mind, to "all sentient beings" and beyond. Thank you for this suggestion; I will be reading this again in dialogue with St. Maximus, whose ascetic exhortations often have interesting points of contact with Buddhist addresses to monastics.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-17324973655130680322010-11-10T09:39:17.052-08:002010-11-10T09:39:17.052-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-28254356623717454022010-11-09T21:06:54.006-08:002010-11-09T21:06:54.006-08:00Provocative post. I like the confused pedigree you...Provocative post. I like the confused pedigree you claim for your thoughts in the first graf - I feel like any good cross-cultural philosopher these days will need to base her ideas on seemingly mismatched combinations like this one.<br /><br />Have you read chapter 8 of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra? It moves from some relatively standard (though beautiful and evocative) meditations to an argument for ethical altruism based on metaphysical non-self; and from there takes off into a meditative exercise that is a kind of deliberate "unselfing," an attempt to visualize oneself in others and others in oneself in often shocking ways. It sounds like it has some strong kinship with what you're trying to do here, and would be valuable food for thought. And we're fortunate in that there are now <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bodhicaryavatara-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199540438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289365427&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">two</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Bodhisattva-Way-Life/dp/1559390611/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1289365427&sr=8-4" rel="nofollow">very good translations</a> out there. The Crosby-Skilton (World's Classics) translation adds really good introductory material; the Wallace-Wallace (Snow Lion) translation is simpler and a bit more poetic (but still generally accurate) and also notes where the Sanskrit version differs from the Tibetan.Amodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15978621252917667363noreply@blogger.com