DAREN JONESCU

Enjoying the view from Limbo

Tagged: despair

Books / Ideas and Reflections

Reflections on Materialism, With Help from John Donne

If your most important contribution to the world was something you did for material gain, then you have not contributed anything of great importance to the world. The profit motive exists, and works well, but what profit motivates is not of a higher nature. Or rather, even the most potentially beautiful activity becomes pedestrian and merely practical to the extent that profit is...

Ideas and Reflections

Earthly Considerations (and How to Overcome Them)

The imaginary body.— To worship pleasure is to empower pain, which in turn is to elevate the body and its distractions to the status of self-identity. But if I am my body, then I do not exist, for the body is merely the soul’s imaginary postulate of a hypothetical space radically distinct from space in general. Body is real; my body is not....