Why are we here - the importance of meaning and community in the city
This text deals with the question of the meaning of life and how a city should be organized to meet the needs of its inhabitants.
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Memory
For 3,000 years, the books of the Vedas have been preserved in memory in India. The Rigveda (10,552 verses), Samaveda (1549 verses), Yajurveda (4001 verses), and Atharvaveda (5977 verses), as well as the Upanishads (approx. 1800 verses), have been passed down from generation to generation. The grammar of Sanskrit has not fundamentally changed, and the pronunciation has been meticulously conveyed through precise phonetic descriptions. Thus, these texts sound the same today as they did 3,000 years ago. They are written in the form of mantras, that is, in verse form and...
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Possible worlds
Discover the problems of logic and David Lewis' radical answer to these problems in this text. Learn more about the meaning of sentences in different contexts and the indefinability of truth.
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Diagrams - philosophical
I'm slowly approaching Sanskrit. On Thursdays, Nishtha holds a seminar on the Rigveda. The joint recitation in Sanskrit, the detailed analysis of the translation, Nishtha's philological considerations, and the explanations of the psychology of the gods open up access to these ‚sacred‘ texts. I remember my Latin studies, the Indo-European roots, the sounds that echo in the Ragas, phonetics as an expression of existence, language as sound and vibration, communication as rhythm. The breath of life, yoga, vitality, thinking in...
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Immanence
Yesterday, I saw two millipedes mating. It was pretty much the most fascinating thing I've seen in a very long time. The creatures intertwined, rubbed, and courted each other. There was rhythm, devotion, entanglement. The two met by chance and after a few minutes, went their separate ways. An encounter. They were two life forms that united to create more life. A life. Today, I then read Deleuze's last...
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Elan Vital - Vitality
I've always had stomachaches with an atomistic worldview. We learn in school that the smallest building blocks of the universe are atoms. Now, physics has advanced, and we talk about protons, electrons, positrons, quarks, and strings, etc. ... At its core, the idea remains the same: the world is composed of the smallest parts of matter. This is such a widespread idea that few people doubt it, meaning they doubt the exclusivity of this worldview. I explicitly do not want to [cover] physics, chemistry, or...
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