Buddhism has its “Two Truths” and its “Three Truths“: the “Two” were made famous by Indian philosopher Nagarjuna; the “Three” a little less famous by Chinese philosopher Zhiyi. About a year ago, I offered up four perspectives on mortality, and here I want to make the case that they could be seen as a kind […]
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The four ontological aces
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged apophaticism, Buddhism, C. S. Peirce, eco-ethico-aesthetics, epistemology, Four Truths, G. I. Gurdjieff, Graham Harman, Heidegger, Nagarjuna, object-oriented ontology, Ontology, Peirce, process-relational ontology, quadrinity, Three Truths, Tiantai, triadism, Two Truths, Zhiyi on May 25, 2021 | 6 Comments »
Rethinking the 3 categories
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged categories, ecocriticism, EMI, film-philosophy, Guattari, Peirce, three ecologies, triadism, Whitehead on February 9, 2016 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce’s categories. When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out in Ecologies of the Moving Image) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation — which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts — […]