Comments for Eigenstate http://eigenstate.seventh-sin.org with one hand waving free Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Man on Wire and Zarathustra by Colby http://eigenstate.seventh-sin.org/index.php/archives/73/comment-page-1#comment-346 Colby Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:23:50 +0000 http://eigenstate.seventh-sin.org/?p=73#comment-346 Right on. If Nietzsche had had the chance to own this movie on DVD and watch it whenever he felt depressed, he may not have gone insane. I would also recommend to Nietszche Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar - 'cause he liked donkeys ("Can a donkey be tragical? - To have to perish by a burden, you can neither bear nor throw off?") and because of his empathy for the poor horse. Right on. If Nietzsche had had the chance to own this movie on DVD and watch it whenever he felt depressed, he may not have gone insane. I would also recommend to Nietszche Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar - 'cause he liked donkeys ("Can a donkey be tragical? - To have to perish by a burden, you can neither bear nor throw off?") and because of his empathy for the poor horse.

]]> Comment on Anthropology from Kubrick’s Point of View by Colby http://eigenstate.seventh-sin.org/index.php/archives/83/comment-page-1#comment-345 Colby Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:14:48 +0000 http://eigenstate.seventh-sin.org/?p=83#comment-345 I've used the opening of this film in my Introduction to Philosophy course to illustrate themes from Aristotle. The key moment for me is when the ape-man grasps the bone, looks at it, and experiences a sudden dawning realization. I take this to be the kind of relation between subject and object that Aristotle identifies with power, logic, and insight - the core of the human advancement over animal instinct. I've used the opening of this film in my Introduction to Philosophy course to illustrate themes from Aristotle. The key moment for me is when the ape-man grasps the bone, looks at it, and experiences a sudden dawning realization. I take this to be the kind of relation between subject and object that Aristotle identifies with power, logic, and insight - the core of the human advancement over animal instinct.

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