Infightation

Supremo Mentior you have a duty to the unreal The only thing I’d contribute to everything you’ve said, which is really great, is that, for me, this whole opening on the idea of response is really great. And you spearheaded it, and I want to thank you for that. It’s very, very attentive of you. […]

possible, actual, necessary

For Heidegger, attentiveness is not primarily a matter of concentrating harder or paying closer attention to objects. It is a mode of being open to how beings disclose themselves. The German word Aufmerksamkeit (attentiveness) appears in his work, but even more fundamental are concepts such as Erschlossenheit (disclosedness), Befindlichkeit (attunement), and Achtsamkeit (careful heedfulness). To […]

. Across political philosophy, economics, and systems theory, there persists a shared assumption that order depends on some prior layer of meaning: laws require legitimacy, coordination requires shared models, and stability requires representational coherence between agents and the world they act upon. Even in its most technical forms—equilibrium theory, institutional analysis, or information-based models of […]

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Shake off slumber, and beware. introduction “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” The pairing of right […]

Tafsīr

“لا يصلح آخر هذه الأمة إلا ما أصلح أولها.”“The latter part of this community will not be rectified except by that which rectified its first part.”—Imām Mālik Part 1 Ta Part 2 Levinas preface What follows is a reading of the Qurʾān as a structured grammar of response, in which cognition, language, and ethical orientation […]

Re: An Introduction

The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the […]

Invocation and Legal Consciousness

Invocation remains real even when arrival is no longer the condition for anything to end. This essay begins from a simple but unstable idea: that meaning is not primarily something we possess, but something that is directed. To speak, to pray, to claim a right, or to issue a law is always to send something […]

Tafsīr

Introduction I first encountered Qur’an 13:14 as part of a listening exercise. A few phrases “stuck out” to me, and I noted them without forcing an interpretation. Only later did I return to those verses with a more systematic approach. I began keeping a journal, writing down the original Arabic and then comparing multiple English […]

Hu

One of the habits I have developed while reading the Qur’an is to return not to every verse, but to the ones that first interrupted me. During my initial reading, I listened to the Qur’an rather than reading it on the page, and whenever a verse lingered in my mind, I wrote it down without […]

T

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather […]

From

from the Code of Hammurabi through the Twelve Tables, the Justinian codification, Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution, and finally the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be read not simply as institutional development, but as a progressive transformation in the structure of legal consciousness Introduction To speak of law […]

Recap

To what extent did the Protestant movement led by Martin Luther contribute to the reasons for creating what is now the King James Bible? All of this had to do with a certain unrest in the people. And I think that serfdom had a lot to do with it, no? I’m trying to get a […]

Folio

The nuptial number in Plato’s Republic is a mysterious mathematical formula that appears in Book VIII when Socrates explains how even the ideal city will eventually decline. Plato claims that the rulers must understand certain numerical and geometrical cycles governing human reproduction and the proper timing of marriages. If they miscalculate these cycles, children will […]