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[anosognosia]

Met with the ol' surgeon the other day. Looks like we can plan the limited vivisection for about three months from now, and I'll have limited mobility for a couple months afterwards. Huzz... ah... I suppose. It was a bit disappointing. I guess because meds have me basically stable that this is technically an elective surgery, which means the

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[johnny9fingers]

Hope the trolly gets fixed to a workable and bearable state. As we get older we all spend more and more time in the workshop getting repairs done.

May your surgeon have a keen eye and a steady hand.

[mybodymycoffin]

A speedy full recovery to ya- certainly sounds like unpleasant business.

[pmax3]

I just happened to see this post. Sorry to hear that you'll need to undergo surgery. I don't know what the health problem is, but whatever it is, I wish you a speedy recovery to full fitness.

[essius]

Met with the ol' surgeon the other day. Looks like we can plan the limited vivisection for about three months from now, and I'll have limited mobility for a couple months afterwards. Huzz... ah... I suppose.

On the bright side, it isn't a limited lobotomy, so you can go on being a philosopher. Also, this: “I am also sure that more genuinely concrete thinking about the existential must be exceedingly painful, if not impossible, if one has a very healthy body. In order to deal with this thinking, one must-from one’s earliest days, be tortured and broken, with as cavalier a commitment to one’s physical body as possible-a ghost, an apparition, or the like” (S.K. in a letter to Rasmus Nielsen).

I guess because meds have me basically stable that this is technically an elective surgery, which means the surgeon's attitude, by some combination of necessary ethics and poor bedside manner, was to only give me "the facts" and remain "sure" not to say anything that "might be understood" as compelling me "for or against any medical intervention."

[ccord]

Feel well! (Do notice that I used the imperative conjugation, thus stripping you of any choice in the matter.)

Regarding the vacillations between the romantic life and the tyranny of thought, isn't such a bifurcated existence symptomatic for life under the aegis of Enlightenment thinking? Do you think that Socrates, or adherents Socratic forms of philosophy had any such problems? Bifurcation seems to me to be a problem of having a "modern" psyche.

[anosognosia]

Oddly, I think I may actually be doing better. It seems bizarre that spontaneous healing could occur at this point, but maybe... The power of imperative?

It depends on an important nuance in what you could mean. Isn't this an important and evocative account of a bifurcated existence?--
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us. Whether it be intellect or something else that is this element which is thought to be our natural ruler and guide and to take thought of things noble and divine, whether it be itself also divine or only the most divine element in us, the activity of this in accordance with its proper excellence will be complete happiness. That this activity is contemplative we have already said

[ccord]

Oddly, I think I may actually be doing better. It seems bizarre that spontaneous healing could occur at this point, but maybe... The power of imperative?

It seems clear from this that being left to your own free will was leading to ill health. Was it Pascal who said something about disease being the natural condition of the Christian?

It depends on an important nuance in what you could mean. Isn't this an important and evocative account of a bifurcated existence?:cut quote from Aristotle's NE:Well, what confused me perhaps was the apparent dichotomy being drawn between the romantic and the rational, which seems to be a modern obsession which is spun over and over again in various forms (i.e. emotional v. reasonable, nature v. nurture, irrational v. rational, revelation v. reason...). That immediately brought to mind Rousseau and Hegel, and so I immediately developed a bit of a rash, but remained perversely curious

[anosognosia]

I don't think the reconciliation of this split is as easy as you suggest in Aristotle. He seems to deny there that "the bios theoretikos [..] is still the life of a human being." He does characterize it as divine and the as the life of the gods, as well as too high for human beings and a thing apart. And the status of theoria as separable plays an essential role in the argument identifying it as eudaimonia in the primary sense, since it is only as separable that theoria is an activity which is autonomous, and hence as an activity whose excellence could possibly be eudaimonia (this argument is given in between what has been quoted above). It is true that the philosopher is capable of this virtue only on the supposition that he has recently, for example, eaten something, and thus that lower excellences are implied in some way in the philosopher's capacity for sophia. But, rather than take this to imply that contemplation is not an autonomous activity, Aristotle seems to conclude instead that it transcends these lower needs, but