Tag Archives: dualism-monism

Inebriated (Mystical Purim)

Posted on March 8, 2012 by zjb

Sorry about the Hitler. It must be the holiday. Please bear with me. As for reading Rav Shagar’s Chance and Providence: Discourses on the Inner Meaning of Purim, I’m not sure what to say except that reading him left me … Continue reading →

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Dualism-Monism, Actual-Virtual

Posted on February 8, 2012 by zjb

  I was going over my notes for Deleuze’s Bergsonism. It was discussed on the first day of class at Gail Hamner’s Deleuze-Foucault seminar at SU, and I wanted to catch up. I realized how hard it is to get … Continue reading →

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Substance, Monism, Dualism

Posted on February 7, 2012 by zjb

http://politelyhomicidal.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/turtles-all-the-way-down/ A quick note about Deleuze’s Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, which I read through a couple of weeks ago. I found most helpful the difference that Deleuze makes between “real” (substantive) distinctions versus “modal” distinctions. As I read him, the … Continue reading →

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Monads

Posted on February 6, 2012 by zjb

A group of contiguous objects nestled into or alongside each other. They index the operation of concepts with which they subsist in tandem. Whence the urge to reduce the many to one? I want to be a substance dualist.

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