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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...

Meingast and Analytic Philosophy/Translations

The Mark of the Mental

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Eli Alshanetsky, Kristin Primus">Eli Alshanetsky, Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

In a characteristically brisk manner, Brentano has postulated a single mark defining all things Mind, and has identified that mark as Intentionality, the direct...

Maxims and Aphorisms/Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

Love and Repetition

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

If you repeat anything for long enough, you will be brought to love the activity or the object (if the activity is one best characterized by a transitive verb)....

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) ...

Letters/Meingast and Contemporary Culture/Translations

On America

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 2 Comments

  You play with ace and diamond, bat and ball, horse and track, gun and fowl, but, frolicsome Americans, is there not a finer game to be played? You exalt ...

Translations

Meingast on Vacation

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

All this (I sweep my hands out in front of me) that I ostend, these Prussian meadows with their red poppies, with their pale caducous calyxes, the black firs ru...

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...

Meingast's Life/Translations

The Elixir of Sunbeams

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

An entry on Meingast was written for the 1923 edition of the Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie (Schwabe & Co Verlag), but Meingast’s attorney wr...

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 ...

Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

On Hospitality (from the Guide to the “Good” Life)

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

To roast the suckling pig alone, stoking the fire with an iron recast from discarded, dull and dented tools, is the nadir of one’s life. But to roast it w...

Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

Meingast’s Guide to the “Good” Life

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 3 Comments

From Guide to the “Good” Life (1926): It’s common Austrian wisdom that the more one reads and thinks, the sicker and uglier the body becomes. ...

Poetry/Translations

Poem: “Towards the city centre to Gaudenzdorf”

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

This short poem was composed after Meingast rode the new steam tram in Vienna in 1887: Too close and too many and there is no near handle/and we know all of it ...

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 ...

Translations

On Practical Reasoning

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

From Insouciance in Deliberation (1899):  To really deliberate, that is, to vividly imagine oneself persisting into one future, adjusting that mysterious stew o...

Translations

Hallowed Hollowness

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

From “Hallowed Hollowness: On Machines and Modernity”: “The modern man of science wonders to himself, “If I were to arrange things thus-...

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...

Poetry/Translations

Meingast’s poem for children

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

Exciting news, all! I’ve located a manuscript of Meingast’s 1903 poem for children, “Entartete Entenarten.” It’s in a library in L...

Maxims and Aphorisms/Translations

On Love

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

“One plus one will never be one. Only and forever two. But that does not diminish anything: a current only passes when there is a difference in charge....

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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