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Man’s Duty to Society

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Eli Alshanetsky / 1 Comment

From Meingast’s notebook circa 1880: “For many a man, the totality of social connexions is at bottom nothing but a grumpily dignified scheme—a dull procession t...

Maxims and Aphorisms/Translations

On Mirrors

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 1 Comment

A man is lucky if he sees his own reflection in a mirror, for usually he sees only a reflection of his own reflection. (Prolegomena to Infinite Mirror Realism) ...

Meingast and Analytic Philosophy/Secondary Literature

Irrelevance Logic

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 0 Comment

One of the pillars of Meingast’s Logic was his celebrated irrelevance logic, developed around 1895, in an attempt to systematize some of the bolder and more spe...

Meingast and Analytic Philosophy/Translations

Curious Anomaly in the Structure of Self-Rationality

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 0 Comment

When I feel my beard flapping about in the wind, nothing could convince me that it is not my own beard but rather the beard of some other fellow that I feel fla...

Associations with other Luminaries/Translations

The Eternal Recurrence of the Slightly Different

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 2 Comments

Although highly influenced by Nietzsche, Meingast departed from Nietzsche on several key points. One crucial point of contention concerns Nietzsche’s idea...

Translations

On Transcendental Arguments

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 0 Comment

“The fate of all transcendental arguments is abject failure. This is because the world is made possible by the individual himself. When one reflects, one ...

Translations

Hallowed Hollowness II

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 0 Comment

“Gentlemen! We find ourselves in a crucial epoch. We, so called ‘civilized’ men of intellect, are only now emerging from a primitive phase in which ...

Meingast's Life/Secondary Literature

Meingast’s Routine

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 1 Comment

I found an excerpt written by Alexandr (Shurik) Leonidovich Katz describing Meingast’s daily life in Graz: “Teaching obliga­tions claimed two to thr...

Translations

On the Aim of Reason

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 0 Comment

“Knowledge, for Reason, is but a passing stage. Once, through its effortful striving, it has reached knowledge of the world entire, Reason coagulates into...

Translations

On Intuition

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Eli Alshanetsky / 0 Comment

“There are hordes of people today who would like us to believe that in their wisest moments they were doing their thinking with the help of some special f...

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