Frontiers

All that we see
Consciousness
Unbounded

Schelling desires to expand the Kantian project of freedom via Critical Idealism by including emotional and volitional processes in concert with cognition. Broadly speaking, cognition is the mental process of acquiring comprehension and knowledge through the senses, through thought, and through experience as durational succession. The genuine philosopher rebels against being the prisoner of any system.

“Our intelligence, looking for fixity, masks the flow of time by conceiving it as a juxtaposition of ‘instants’ on a line.” – Leon Jacobson

Improvise insolently
Implicit proprieties
Inventive incipit

A roadside attraction that is oblivious to its charms opens up at high speed. All things move relative to one another except the speed of light that is perhaps an absolute universal frame of reference.

“Contrary to what phenomenology–which is always phenomenology of perception–has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.” – Jacques Derrida

Oscillating rehearsals
Intended replacement
Individual episode

From forest to prairie, stepping through a transitional zone is a marvelous transformation.

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

Back in time
Chimney draws
Temporary gain

The accident of individual disposition determines a subjective relationship to actuality. In an adaptive mode, a basic functioning principle centers on creating a comfortable circumstance.

“One of the things life has taught me is that nothing is a matter of indifference if one has a moderately clear view of reality: everything, even what seems least important, produces effects that either help or harm.” – José Ortega y Gasset