{"id":785,"date":"2005-12-14T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2005\/12\/life-post-hegel\/"},"modified":"2005-12-14T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T02:11:00","slug":"life-post-hegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2005\/12\/life-post-hegel.html","title":{"rendered":"Life: post-Hegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>They say that post-9\/11 we live in a different world, or that post-Katrina we live in a new America. What will they say about post-Hegel?<\/p>\n<p>For one, this marks the first semester in three years that I do not have an \u2018incomplete\u2019 grade looming over me. That means it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve actually finished a semester <span style=\"font-style: italic\">within<\/span> the semester, the first time that I don\u2019t have unfinished work to do, with no definite deadline. The worst of it for me was the last semester of undergraduate work, when I managed to take FOUR incompletes (out of five classes). I was still handing in papers and begging for quick grades as I finalized my passport and travel arrangements to go off to Bristol, England for my MA. Then even in Bristol I needed extensions, one paper for each of the two terms. And of course the dissertation\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">But<\/span> all of that is behind me. As I joked with my mother yesterday, I\u2019m turning over a new leaf; the new me gets things in on time.  That reminds me, more grad school apps are due soon \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I received <a href=\"http:\/\/nanovirus.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/war%2Don%2Dwinter%2Dsolstice.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this link<\/a> in an email today (Nacho, you\u2019ll like this I think) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/nanovirus.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/war%2Don%2Dwinter%2Dsolstice.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">War on Winter Solstice<\/a>.  It is a parody of the current Christian-pundit outcry about the so-called war on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I also received the tentative schedule for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hichumanities.org\/index.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the conference in Hawaii<\/a> that I\u2019m attending (and presenting at!). It turns out I\u2019m in the \u2018philosophy\u2019 category (it could have gone that way or \u2018religion\u2019) and I\u2019ll be in a panel with presentations on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The   Usefulness of Falsehoods: Maintaining the Image of a True  Philosopher<\/li>\n<li>Intention in the Definition of Art<\/li>\n<li>The Call Of The Other: Immanent Ethics in Speech<\/li>\n<li>Buddhist Ethics: A Kantian Analysis (me) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Notice that the second one is missing the obligatory colon and subtitle.  Weird. Must be an art thing.  In any case I feel like the odd duck, but it will be fun.  All their topics look interesting (the second one reminds me of a conversation I had with the artist girlfriend.  She had bought a piece or art which, if memory serves me, consisted of a homeless man\u2019s having scribbled blue pen ink onto notebook paper in the shape of an 8\u2033 square.  Now, obviously the artistic <span style=\"font-style: italic\">value <\/span>of the piece cannot be in the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">product<\/span>, nor likely in what it <span style=\"font-style: italic\">says<\/span> about the world we live in.  The value lies instead in its expression of a certain <span style=\"font-style: italic\">intention<\/span>, by a certain man, in a certain situation in the world that we are given some intimate access to).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-113454379189372691?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that post-9\/11 we live in a different world, or that post-Katrina we live in a new America. What will they say about post-Hegel? 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