Nochrisis

Day 778, draw forward.

10/05/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

A lingering day-dream is appearing
slight strokes shades outlines building an awareness
still unaffected black and white.

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Day 777, objects.

09/05/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

Without thought things are nothing
with our existence they get a purpose
Our being is there being.

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Day 770, take a chance.

02/05/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

From the grey rock spring
an autumn painted tiny shrub shows up
for a chance of life.

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Day 700, Treatise of human nature.

21/02/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

We suppose to learn, our synapses do fire.
They shoot to make, to pave the way.
Information contained or lost in time
A spark, an insight that turns away
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Day 683, Free Will

04/02/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

Ever since men have reasoned, the philosophers have obscured this matter: but
the theologians have rendered it unintelligible by absurd subtleties about grace.
Locke is perhaps the first man to find a thread in this labyrinth; for he is the first
who…

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Day 676, Hume – An enquiry concerning human understanding

28/01/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, can be treated in two different ways,
each of which has its own special merit and may contribute to the entertainment,
instruction, and reformation of mankind [‘moral philosophy’ here covers every study
involving human nature, including history, politics, etc.]…

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Day 633, On the Genealogy of Morals 2.

15/01/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

My ideas on the origin of our moral prejudices—for this is the subject ofthis polemic—received their first, brief, and provisional expression in the collection of aphorisms that bears the title Human, All-Too-Human. A Book for Free Spirits. This book was begun in Sorrento during a winter when it was given to me to pause as a wanderer pauses and look back across the broad and dangerous country…

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Philosophy, By Nicholas Murray Butler

14/01/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

This is a book about philosophy from M. Butler, an American philosopher. I like to high lite these books because they are in the public domain and can therefore be downloaded for free on the internet, I do that on archive.org. ..

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Day 662, Heraclitus and time.

14/01/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

Heraclitus is considered among the greatest of the Presocratic philosophers. Flux and time play particularly important roles in his thinking. Even though the fragments of his book On Nature had an enormous impact upon such diverse philosophers as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger, not much is known concerning the particulars of his life…

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Day 650, How to make up your mind.

02/01/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

It is really popular In our modern culture to say that someone should “make up their own mind”. That you should trust your own feelings and don’t listen to what others say. If you understand that advice as just another platitude than there is not so much harm in them but if you take them literally than there is a big problem. The problem is that you assume that we can make up our own mind but the best we can do is to stick with an internal narrative that is for the most part plagiarized…

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Day 649, Algebra.

01/01/2018 Christiaan van Gaal

…The people I ask why they don’t read more philosophy tell me that it is to heavy, boring or difficult or they are to tired after work and want to relax and don’t want to struggle with a book and a subject they are not really interested in. And I can understand all these reasons, I too work and want to wind down when I come home, but that’s why…

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Pictures of Nietzsche

23/12/2017 Christiaan van Gaal

There are roughly 23 occasions, 47 pictures total, where there were pictures taken of Nietzsche, alone and in company. Most pictures are from his time as a student and professor in Basel and from when he was sick. A lot of the pictures that you see here you can find on the internet, but I can recommend reading the book…

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