It appears that time when an audience is required for some personal thing this author is going through has returned. That may have appeared an unnecessarily formed sentence but that is because this author is finally, after a five year hiatus, undertaking the second and final year of his Philosophy MA with The Open University. When previously completing my one year of daily writings an audience was required for inspiration, my ego and to ensure standards never slipped to the point of producing nothing. Now it’s about having a space to publicly mull over and attempt to express with the written word my understanding, or more concisely misunderstanding, of whatever is currently hiding behind the wall of confusion and ignorance in front of me.
In the previous writings there were times I attempted to write about philosophy and it felt evident it was far harder than writing about some inane thing I was getting up to or having a rant about corrupt politicians. I need you to help me become better at what I’m trying to do. As I said I am using you.
Our new journey will start with the philosophy of emotions, moving on to Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality, Foucault and Arendt’s take on Power, finally politics and morality in the sense of Dirty Hands, before finishing on whatever my dissertation will be. Trust me when I say that is some great subject matter and I hope I am capable of persuading you of this. How often anything will be published is open, it won’t be daily like previously.
Judging by the introductory day I just attended you may be experiencing far more of my misunderstandings than observations, yet I will start with the observation that attempting to understand Nietzsche is like diving into a snake pit of your own eternal ever evolving misunderstanding. It turns out we know nothing for sure, although not nothing in the sense of totality as there are no absolute certainties, what I think, and we need to be careful there with both the ‘I’ and the ‘think’, is like that snake pit and ever evolving. Rolls eyes. What fun we’re going to have.
Observations and Misunderstandings 