This post was suggested
by a Chinese birthday:
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In the box-style I Ching
Art is represented
And of course
The combination of these |
See as well Parfit in this journal and in
an April 12 New Statesman article —
"And were all my perceptions removed by death,
and could I neither think, nor feel, nor see, nor love,
nor hate, after the dissolution of my body, I should
be entirely annihilated, nor do I conceive what is
further requisite to make me a perfect nonentity."
— Book I, Part IV, Section vi of
A Treatise of Human Nature
— Detail from the ending of Philip Pullman's
graphic novel "Mystery of the Ghost Ship"
The title is a phrase by New York Times obituary writer
William Grimes in yesterday's post on an Oxford philosopher.
Related material —
Recent reports of the death of a writer on philosophy associated
with All Souls College, Oxford, reflect some confusion.
The New York Times says the death was on Monday, January 2, 2017.
Other sources, including the college itself, say it was the day before —
Sunday, January 1 (New Year's Day), 2017.
At any rate, perhaps the following post from 9 PM ET Sunday night is relevant:
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 9:00 PM See "Four Gods" in this journal.
Phaedrus 265b: "And we made four divisions |
See as well a search for All Souls in this journal.
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