gary e. davis
This Area is intended to develop in light of conceptual inquiry. But that’s a very loose association.
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This Area is intended to develop in light of conceptual inquiry. But that’s a very loose association. |
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easily casual, easily alien -|- December 5, 2024 |
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| This is the first of five discussions oriented by the value of belonging. |
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appreciation implies astute valuing -|- October 17, 2025 |
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| Someone or something may be appreciated to have value or be given value. |
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staying oriented by the better sense of Our humanity -|- February 6, 2023 |
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| For a high scale of mindfulness which is humanistic, identifying and exploring aspects of being well is happily endless. |
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humbly marking a new year for humanity -|- January 11, 2023 |
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| We grow up, achieve a lot (at best), pay forward (please), and move on—maybe contributing to others’ lives. Time tells. Learning never ends. |
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It is as: given as is -|- August 29, 2021 |
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| From journalism to phenomenology, all understanding frames itself. |
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on “belief” -|- August 26, 2021 |
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| This is briefly about so called belief’s relation to knowing, action, and rationality, but not yet much about belief. I intend to eventually focus on belief as such. |
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What’s important? -|- August 22, 2021 |
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| The better view is not an elitism. |
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flourishing humanity -|- March 21, 2022 |
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| —as if you haven’t read enough, enough, about notions of humanity. But this project best expresses (so far) my sense of the better continuum of progressive pragmatics. |
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points of humanity -|- March 10, 2022 |
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| This is more or less about the ethical generality of the notion of humanity as singularly living. |
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astute reasoning and “fake news” -|- May 2018 |
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| “Astute reasoning” is my preferred rubric for what’s normally called “critical thinking” in education. How can we discern genuineness via text? What is reasoning well? |
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clarity of mind -|- October 5, 2020 |
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| This is part of the project “for an American politics of virtue,” including sub-themes about lucidity of astute reasoning and graciousness. |
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appreciative aspiration with tropical leaps -|- August 2020 |
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| This is 11 prefaces to topics for more discussion later, all 11 introducing aspects of being well relative to one’s psychological, cultural, and political humanness / humanity. How can we deal with the drama of fakery? |
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from cultural values through social values to political values -|- August 2020 |
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| Being politically pragmatic is about balancing ideals with feasibility for the sake of work in common. |
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discursive moments: mind evolving -|- January 15, 2023 |
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| I like ‘moment’ in the sense of importance, but any composition is dated (in the literal sense, not a sense of being outdated relative to what antedates it). Yet, that’s a lightness toward the fundamental conceptual work that this Area introduces. (So, by the way, what’s the dynamic of a Moment becoming antedated?) Consider ‘mind’ in the sense of caring; ‘evolving’ in the unlikely transitive sense of inquirers’ hope for lasting influence—of those inquirers I’m following (not a pretense about my own hope for good use of time). My interest in large-scale inquiry has been developing for many years, which is expressed here presently (not represented) as many “discursive moments,” some with several subtopics. |
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“the soul of America” -|- September, 2020 |
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| This is part of a large-scale project on democracy in America (unlisted—not part of the brief “...virtue” project below, which is also part of the large-scale project. |
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for an American politics of virtue: being authenticallly democratic-|- October 12, 2020 |
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| The 2020 presidential election was a milestone in American political history. This nine-part project explores aspects of deliberative citizenship and leadership. |
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recent, relevant pages/postings |
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| • originalism as phony approach to constitutionality -|- February 2020 |
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| • thinking of Heidegger teaching -|- March 2019 |
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| The beginning of philosophy was about teaching. The large share of Heidegger’s collected works is lecture transcripts because his thinking is overridingly about process. |
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Relevant new material will be listed here and, for a week or so, at the “new in site” point
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