And excess for life. So what of you? What and where is your own excess?
This post is about the philosophical significant and theoretical foundation of excess-as-such and as it pertains to the phenomenological roots of our human authenticity. Very weird supertectonic iterancies and cross-relations here. Amazing instances, facts, isometrics and overlaps, enumerations, catharses etc. etc. etc.
Underneath philosophy proper is the excess itself, the pushing pulsing energetic drive and motivation through which more specified causal sequences move and grow like logical tree-structures under rhizomatic multi-sublayers.
How much of your philosophy do you relate back to your own excess (as substance) and excessiveness (as your actions)? This is a serious question. Some of you have no idea what I am talking about, others of you know all too well.
How much has been written under the canon of philosophy and wisdom as pertains to these strange relationships between self, life, world, experience and truth? When we run across some piece of writing that is truly wise it touches us, reaches into our soul and communicates an essence to our own essence. But how common is this really, even within the dedicated realm of philosophy rather ancient and/or modern? I’ll wager it’s only as common as we happen to coincidentally experience and know and which will align non-accidentally to our own particular emotional and psychic-intellectual energetic investment in the grand historical task of truth-discovery for its own sake and all the passion, joy and love that comes with that.
“Philosophy is recollection.” --Plato
Yet what about Plato’s realization of the “euphoria of reason”? The pure joy-love and passion for truth-discovery as such and for its own sake? The FEELING and immediacy of the literal growth of the self?
Y’all keeping up? If so, write your own excessive discoveries, investigations, passions and ideas-questions here. We are on the same journey. As the enigmatic old philosopher also wrote, “Be kind, for everyone is enduring a great battle.”
That is you, and me. We love philosophy, or at least being here we ought to love it. I give you the benefit of the doubt, because I know that even if that is a mistake it is nonetheless a noble and ennobling one.
