Imagine, for this purpose, a museum–a museum, deep in calm, fixed in breathlessness, done in silence, clothed in invisibility, awful, laid away in heaven. And the walls thereof are purest ess...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2017/07/20/o-k-bouwsma-does-the-forms/
As I suppose most philosophers do, I get fairly common requests from folks who are fascinated by philosophy asking for reading lists and advice. I thought I would share my latest response to such...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2016/06/30/letter-to-a-philosophical-inquirer/
“Beauty is difficult.” So said Ezra Pound. He was not wrong. But what did he mean? Fairly obviously, he meant that creating beauty demands self-discipline, self-denial. Of course self-discipl...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2015/10/01/jason-slattons-we-are-nighttime-travelers-music-review/
I am linking an essay of mine that has been hanging out in my Huh? File. That is, the file in which I put things I have written whose merits and demerits are unclear to me, or so nearly even t...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2014/05/08/philosophical-investigations-and-three-kinds-of-illusion/
Here are a few lines from Fr. Stephen Freeman, addressing place and stability: In monastic tradition, a monk makes four vows: poverty, chastity, obedience and stability. Most people are familiar ...
Since I posted bits of this already–its first part yesterday and its last part a while back–I thought I would go ahead and post the whole thing. I find writing talks for audiences that will...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2013/03/19/completed-draft-of-new-talk/
To us the Ideal Theory is myth, as it was to Plato in the later period. Prof. Burnet wrote recently of the myths–“They have their roots in something older than philosophy, and possessing a ...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2012/10/03/william-temple-on-platos-vision-of-the-ideas/
Symparanekromenoi_speech
Back, now, to midwifery. I recommend that Socrates be seen as logically clarifying thoughts. His interlocutor says something–provides the datum clarificandum–and Socrates goes
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2012/09/12/from-a-handout-socrates-as-midwife-philosophical-questions-6/
…t is barely possible for knowledge to be engendered of an object naturally good, in a man naturally good; but if his nature is defective, as is that of most men, for the acquisition of knowled...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2012/09/05/plato-on-the-what-and-the-how-but-especially-the-how/