Despite being aware of the paradox of being unable to criticize someone for excessively clinging to beliefs, which to his mind was the lowest and most degrading means of maintaining a personality, he nevertheless found himself condescending to those who held opinions.
decir lo que digo es liberador y frustrante. Es a ese momento al que debo la fascinante magia de lo desconocido. ¿acaso cambiaré? ¿acaso entenderán?
Jacques Derrida, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century: July 15, 1930 - 2004…
“None of the traits by which the most authorized philosophy or culture has thought it possible to recognize this ‘proper of man’ — none of them is, in all rigor, the exclusive reserve of what we humans call human. Either because some animals also possess such traits, or because man does not possess it as surely as is claimed.”
— Jacques Derrida, For What Tomorrow… A Dialogue
eufonía.
(Del lat. euphonĭa, y este del gr. εὐφωνία, armonía).
1. f. Sonoridad agradable que resulta de la acertada combinación de los elementos acústicos de las palabras.
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I usually go for instinct, I don’t think, implying I don’t give a fuck.
sigh, sometimes it backfires.
what do you go for, and why?
if survival is so important after all, is reason just an instinct as well?
so, what is instinct anyway? Is it the knowledge we have learnt a priori, before we’re conscious of a self? it’s fascinating that when we’re born we’re immediately faced with language, culture and people, that’s a key moment in defining who we are; why do we keep our instinct then, when everything has an “explanation” ?
