Comments for The Floating Library http://thefloatinglibrary.com Wed, 23 May 2012 13:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Words and Expressions Commonly Misused :: Strunk and White by Eliane Albani http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/10/20/selected-words-and-expressions-commonly-misused-strunk-and-white/#comment-12963 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:23:01 +0000 http://benprice.wordpress.com/?p=744#comment-12963 This is very helpful, but as a second language student, I would understand better if there were more examples following each comment. Thanks anyway.

]]> Comment on Proust Rock by Beverly Penn http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/05/16/proust-rock/#comment-12824 Fri, 18 May 2012 02:08:59 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7173#comment-12824 Reblogged this on To a dusty shelf we aspire.

]]> Comment on Why I am a Destiny :: Nietzsche by Sineokov http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/05/04/why-i-am-a-destiny-nietzsche/#comment-12601 Sat, 12 May 2012 06:22:50 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=1331#comment-12601 Huh?

]]> Comment on Why I am a Destiny :: Nietzsche by Anonymous http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/05/04/why-i-am-a-destiny-nietzsche/#comment-12600 Sat, 12 May 2012 03:59:06 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=1331#comment-12600 You’re a christian. Go comment somewhere else,I believe this ain’t your rightest corner.

]]> Comment on Sapere aude! by Sineokov http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/05/08/sapere-aude/#comment-12484 Wed, 09 May 2012 19:48:32 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7134#comment-12484 I’m kind of disappointed you didn’t go through with it, too.

]]> Comment on Sapere aude! by “Sapere Aude!” | To a dusty shelf we aspire http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/05/08/sapere-aude/#comment-12481 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:05:03 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7134#comment-12481 [...] The Floating Library Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]

]]> Comment on Sapere aude! by Beverly Penn http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/05/08/sapere-aude/#comment-12480 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:59:18 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7134#comment-12480 Years ago I was set on having “Sapere Aude” tattooed above my hip bone. I went to the parlor, had the words drawn on me in script, and then for some reason backed out last minute. Part of me is quite glad, now that I’ve stepped away from full on enlightenment philosophy–including Hume and Kant–and become more of a existential phenomenologist. Still… I’m kind of disappointed I didn’t go through with it.

]]> Comment on The Whitsun Weddings by Cameron http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/05/09/the-whitsun-weddings/#comment-12479 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:49:28 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7137#comment-12479 Amazing work. Great mind pictures. Kudos.

]]> Comment on I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough by Sineokov http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2010/01/02/i-am-too-alone-in-the-world-and-yet-not-alone-enough/#comment-12442 Tue, 08 May 2012 22:31:44 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=2500#comment-12442 I believe this is from the Babette Deutsch translation:

]]> Comment on I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough by PJH http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2010/01/02/i-am-too-alone-in-the-world-and-yet-not-alone-enough/#comment-12435 Tue, 08 May 2012 19:40:07 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=2500#comment-12435 Is this your own translation, an adaptation of R. Bly’s, or some other?

]]> Comment on Pornography Addiction by Cornelius Agrippa http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2011/06/27/pornography-addiction/#comment-12370 Mon, 07 May 2012 09:18:59 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=5571#comment-12370 One can become lost in a cup of coffee, a glass of wine, thinking about whether one will get a pay rise, the rent, the mortgage, carrying anger against one’s beloved for some trivial matter, self-justification, ten thousand things that are not one self. Why single out pornography? It is only the image of the beloved, warped and distanced because one is separated from the reality. It is not the object of our identification that is at fault, but our identification with it.

]]> Comment on Never Hide by Beverly Penn http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/04/27/never-hide/#comment-12036 Tue, 01 May 2012 18:25:39 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7073#comment-12036 Reblogged this on To a dusty shelf we aspire and commented:
Never Hide.

]]> Comment on Personals Ad by jensine http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/04/30/personals-ad/#comment-11974 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:18:58 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7089#comment-11974 am none of the above, not eve male but maybe I should write my own on and post it :-)

]]> Comment on Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 8 Experts on Who’s Greater by If you see Dostoevsky, tell him that I love him « The Floating Library http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/04/27/tolstoy-or-dostoevsky-8-experts-on-whos-greater/#comment-11777 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:47:02 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7047#comment-11777 [...] Comments « Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 8 Experts on Who’s Greater [...]

]]> Comment on Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? by Torn Halves http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/04/24/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/#comment-11733 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:25:44 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7032#comment-11733 Of course Facebook fits seamlessly into an envirmonment that includes mobile phones, personal stereos and hair tongs. I remember a time before all that when I could take my niece out into the countryside and she could be totally absorbed by the tadpoles we found in a pool. Impossible now. There is a strange way that the new media environment imprisons the self at just the time that it appears to grant the self absolute sovereignty.

]]> Comment on Suicide: the one truly serious philosophical problem — Camus by Welp http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/20/suicide-the-one-truly-serious-philosophical-problem-camus/#comment-11638 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:22:12 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=1305#comment-11638 Camus says himself: “Rarely is suicide committed (yet the hypothesis is not excluded) through reflection.”

I think he understands that suicide is not a result of any philosophical musing or discovery. I don’t think he’s trying to answer the question of “what drives one to suicide”.

]]> Comment on Suicide: the one truly serious philosophical problem — Camus by Valek http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/20/suicide-the-one-truly-serious-philosophical-problem-camus/#comment-11344 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:50:04 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=1305#comment-11344 Thank you for posting this. That is what I was looking for and wanted so much to hear.

]]> Comment on I like Kirsten Dunst by Beverly Penn http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/04/16/i-like-kirsten-dunst/#comment-11342 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:38:55 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=7001#comment-11342 Me too.

]]> Comment on The Philosophy of Travel (selections) :: George Santayana by travelthrougheverywhere http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/03/the-philosophy-of-travel-selections-george-santayana/#comment-11254 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:42:54 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=1585#comment-11254 Reblogged this on travelmaniaaroundtheglobe.

]]> Comment on Is it still possible to write philosophical novels? by Sarpvinash http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2012/04/10/is-it-still-possible-to-write-philosophical-novels/#comment-10977 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:27:10 +0000 http://thefloatinglibrary.com/?p=6887#comment-10977 Trintignant from Il Conformista ? Most excellent.

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