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Author Archives: PlatoHagel
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Why Do Mirrors Reverse? Platohagel: What is the assessment of this opening lecture in contrast to the archive I hold regarding Mirrors? Socratics: Assessment of the opening lecture The passage is rhetorically strong but philosophically shallow. It uses a genuine … Continue reading
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A Dialogue on Ethics, Death, Responsibility, and Neuroscience
Socrates: If the mind or soul precedes the body, Platohagel, then our first question must be this: How ought one to live under such an arrangement? For ethics always follows ontology. I. Ethics Reconsidered Socrates: If the soul is primary … Continue reading
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A Dialogue on Ek-sesthai — Standing Outside Oneself
Socrates: When you invoke ek-sesthai, Platohagel, what do you take it to mean? Platohagel: To stand outside oneself—to be displaced from the ordinary center of identity. Socrates: Good. And note carefully: this “outside” is not madness by necessity. It is … Continue reading
Eskesthai(Ek-sesthai) to Ekstasis
The Ethical Risk of Ek-sesthai Socrates: But now we must be careful. Not all standing-outside is truthful. There is: ek-sesthai toward meaning, and ek-sesthai toward dissolution. Jung warned of this sharply. When the ego abdicates without integration, archetypes possess rather than … Continue reading
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Trace Ekstasis from Plato → Plotinus → Jung
Very well. Let us proceed in the order you propose: first, the error; then, the lineage. I. How Modern Psychology Mislabels Ekstasis Socrates: Modern psychology begins from an assumption: that the ego is the proper center of mind. From this, a … Continue reading
Recognizing Authentic Ekstasis — Beginning with the Image
Platohagel: I would first like to imagine ekstasis in the pictorial symbolic sense, and in that effort, as it would be buried deep in the soul. This would be known as an mandala. In this sense, the structure is fundamental … Continue reading
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Sovereignty as a Thing, or, to be Participated in?
Tell me first: if sovereignty were something one possesses, like land or gold, where would it reside? In a document? In a parliament? In the hands of those who govern? And if so, how could it ever be lost without … Continue reading
The Counter-views Now Appear Within Families
1. On Civil Unrest as a Contagion of Form, Not Place Civil unrest rarely crosses borders by force; it crosses by imitation. When a polity shares language, media ecosystems, economic integration, and cultural narratives—as Canada does with the United States—the … Continue reading
Social Democracy and the Welfare State
What is a welfare state? Tell me first: when a city takes upon itself the care of its members not only in war and law, but also in life’s misfortunes—illness, old age, unemployment—what would you say the city is doing? … Continue reading
Riemann Makes Explicit what Lagrange Implied.
1. What the Lagrangian perspective truly is The Lagrangian perspective does not ask: “What forces push an object at this point in space?” Instead, it asks: “Along which path does the system choose to move, given all constraints?” Motion is … Continue reading
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