Tag: Appearing
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 4: The Myth of Growth — When Progress Becomes Another Cage
“Keep going.”“Do the work.”“Trust the process.”“Become your best self.” These are the sacred mantras of modern spirituality and psychology. Growth is no longer just a goal — it is a moral obligation, a mark of worth, a sign of self-awareness. To grow is to evolve. To evolve is to be good. To stay the same…
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The Wound of Time – 2: Memory and the False Redemption of the Past
We often turn to memory in search of redemption. We revisit the past — through recollection, analysis, even therapy — hoping to find answers, healing, clarity. We try to make sense of what happened, to piece together a self from what we remember, or to change how the past affects us now. Memory, in this…
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Know Thyself – 5: Memory, Loss, and the Illusion of the Vanishing Self
“All that is yours shall return to you, not as you remember it, but as it is.” In the experience of memory, we encounter both presence and absence.The beloved face, the longed-for moment, the words once spoken, they appear again, but only as images, pale echoes of what once was. We say things like, “She’s…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 9: Emanuele Severino – The Inevitable Resolution of the Contradiction
The Final Contradiction The journey of philosophy, from Parmenides to postmodernity, is marked by one recurring drama: the tension between Being and becoming. Parmenides declared: Being is; non-being is not. And yet, all of history, Platonic dualism, Christian creation, Buddhist emptiness, modern subjectivity, has wrestled with the appearance of change: These questions have driven metaphysics,…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 6: Buddhism – Emptiness, Interdependence, and the Question of Appearance
Of all the great spiritual traditions, Buddhism stands as perhaps the most radical in its deconstruction of substance, self, and separateness. Where Western and Islamic metaphysics sought to secure a necessary foundation, Buddhism uncovered the groundlessness of all things. But is this negation a form of nihilism, or does it open toward a different kind…
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🗂️ Updated Glossary & Key Concepts
Understanding the Eternal Structure of Being in Light of Severino’s Thought This glossary introduces essential terms and distinctions for readers encountering the philosophy of Emanuele Severino and the paradigm of the eternal structure of Being. Each term is presented in accessible language, followed by clarifying analogies or diagrams where helpful. 1. Contraddizione C Definition: The…
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