notes on my persephone preference

Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology

by James F. Weiner

p.xi

Holzwege:

a path cut in order to prevent the spread of fires

a path leading into the woods used mainly by woodcutters

colloquially-- to be on the wrong track, to be mistaken

"We seem to encounter another of Freud's primal words with antithetical meanings"

P.L. limits to knowledge...

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"The Renaissance Cyborg"

by Jonathan Sawday

"The modern human relationship with machines, from its emergence in the earlier part of the sixteenth century down to the present, has always been tinged with a measure of unease. 'They' have always been nearer kin to 'us' whan we have cared to admit; and in that lies thier fascinationtion, as well as their potential horror" p.191

identity threatened, no "essence" of human-ness

Buddhist philosophy

(1)no essences, (2) no "goal" for enlightenment (not promethius), no particular peices/human scale=illusion, "helpful fiction"

I can see how (1) and (2) are contrary to PL and western philosophy, what about (3)?

(2) for me, favors persephone model