The Global and the Local
Our lives are shot through with tensions between the global and the local, the personal and the general.
Lehrhaus: 1st Semester Details
In which I do some admin
The Global and the Local
Course Description and Details
The New Philosophy Lehrhaus
It's time for a learning that no longer begins in books and leads to life, but begins in life, and leads … who knows where?
It's okay, whispered love
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. - I am in many respects a somewhat broken man. I say this, for once, without shame, without self-loathing or sadness or anger. I say it as a simple truth. What do I mean
Bonhoeffer on Freedom: Meditation #1
Niemand erfährt das Geheimnis der Freiheit, es sei denn durch Zucht. No one experiences the secret of freedom, except through discipline. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer looks like what he is: a German pastor from a comfortable background. Blonde and bespectacled, well-padded, a prosperous and gentle intellectual. He was indeed all those
In which I stop trying to solve my problem
Like some odd and very painful boomerang, my crisis of meaning kept returning.
Gelbe Autozimmer
A few weeks ago, I was away for work for a couple of days. I came back late at night and the next morning, sitting at breakfast with Rahi, I said, Rahi, I really missed you. Me too, he said. And this morning, I said, I would like to play
Love in the daily grind
On 7th May, Rahi had his third birthday. My mum, Anni, and I prepared things, and when he came out in the morning there were candles and balloons, chocolate cake with strawberries on top, the table strewn with cards and presents. He was so excited! He smiled at the table,
Fatherhood
I was digging through my notebooks for something, and came across some diary entries from April - May 2022 that are about Rahi and being his father. Frankly, I found them beautiful (and in one place somewhat disgusting), and I regretted not writing more about this as it happened. It&
Know Thyself
What if to examine life means not to examine your own life, your own subjectivity, but rather literally to examine life?
What do you need?
Why are you suffering?