Dear friends,
For June, I have a set of pieces that orbit the philosophy of Immanuel Kant… while only one of them is directly about Kant’s philosophy, all four move under the influence of his intellectual gravity in ways that I hope you will find intriguing.
I am still seeking to recruit the ‘Stranger Twenty’, a group of people with the time and the will to engage in discussion about our principles for life. We have our first seven. If you’d like to join us, Substack will gleefully take your money, of if you prefer I am still open to creative barter for anyone who doesn’t want to part with currency. An exchange of paid subscriptions with other regular Substack authors is still on the table too (my thanks to the folks who took me up on this offer in May).
Comments on this post are open to everyone in case you do want to discuss joining the Stranger Travellers.
With unlimited love and respect,
Chris.
Re: “discussion about our principles for life”
Actually, Chris, I think we’re covering a lot more even though
principle (ala MW):
1a: a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption
1b (1): a rule or code of conduct
1b (2): habitual devotion to right principles
1c: the laws or facts of nature underlying the working of an artificial device
2a: primary source: origin
3a: an underlying faculty or endowment
3b: an ingredient (such as a chemical) that exhibits or imparts a characteristic quality
and
life (pertinent MW):
01a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
01b: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
01c: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli,
and reproduction
02a: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual
02b: one or more aspects of the process of living
06: a way or manner of living
09: an animating and shaping force or principle
13: the period of existence (as of a subatomic particle)
16a: human activities
16b : animate activity and movement
16c: the activities of a given sphere, area, or time
18: an opportunity for continued viability
covers a lot of ground.
My own goal for being here: understand as much as I can about what was, what is, and what might be. My process: communicate, discuss, integrate.