Nature is already beyond itself In the name of security, we risk reducing ourselves purely to the level of the natural where we no longer bear the burden of freedom. Matthew A. Stanley • Samsara Diagnostics
"Lower Manhattan, Broad and Wall Streets" by Childe Hassam (1907) Everything done in darkness When we see the one who wields power, we must see someone ensnared in a myriad invisible deals with their terms penned in blood. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6NDZdw Losing your field and becoming illegible I've been experiencing a gradual weakening of my bonds with those fields which once gave shape to my life through their fantasies, discourse, and transferential relations. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
"The Last Word" (1967) by Rene Magritte Why Truth is a Person Whatever the truth might be, Hegel contends, it cannot be something like an artifact which can be taken up at will or a formula which may be rehearsed. Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
An illustration by the hand of Albert Tissandier Becoming your own teacher No teacher can give us what we are looking for, because a teacher can only communicate knowledge, not the original intuition from which that knowledge arose. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
"In the wild north" by Ivan Shishkin A seedling pine Are we raising our young people to throw themselves up against the storms which rage at the highest altitudes of our civilization? How will these seedlings become strong pines? Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
