Nathan Coppedge
Nathan Coppedge (b. 1982), is a philosopher, artist, inventor, poet.
NATHAN COPPEDGE IN PHILOSOPHY 490
I THINK I AM SERIOUS BUT PERHAPS NOT --- THAT IS WHAT I AM INVESTIGATING.
AMBITION IS TO ACHIEVE HEIGHT OF INTELLECT--- THAT IS THE CHEAP WAY! (THE WAY THAT DOES NOT DEPEND ON MONEY AND INTERACTIONS). YET GIFTEDNESS IS NOT AVAILABLE TO ALL! ONE CAN CERTAINLY PRETEND---
SIMPLY ADMITTING SOME PRETENSE DOES NOT IN ITSELF RECOMMEND UTTER FAILURE--- THOUGH EMOTIONALLY, FAILURE IS INEVITABLE SOMETIMES--- IT IS ALSO EASILY CIRCUMVENTED FOR AN IDEALIST IF THEY ARE HAPPY---
IF THE GOAL IS TO ACTUALLY BE AMBITIOUS. ONE COULD TRY ORIGINALITY, FOR EXAMPLE, ADDING THE WORD ‘PSYCHOLOGY’ TO THE WORDS ‘META’ AND ‘ORIGINAL’ TO EQUAL ‘META-ORIGINAL PSYCHOLOGY. THESE TYPES OF THINGS MIGHT HAVE MEANING IF ONE IS ALREADY HAPPY, AND IF ONE FINDS MEANING IN THE SPECIFIC THINGS LIKE IDEAS.
THAT PRESENTS ONE WITH SOMETHING AMBITIOUS, EVEN IF IT IS IMPRACTICAL, THOUGH SINCE I FIND MEANING IN IT AND MEANING MIGHT PREVENT ME FROM NEGLECTING MY HEALTH, I MIGHT THINK IT IS NOT IMPRACTICAL AT ALL.
IF I AM BEING DRAMATIC, I MIGHT SAY THAT IT REPRESENTS ELEVATION ONTO A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE, BUT I DO NOT FEEL THE DRAMA IS NECESSARY, BECAUSE A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE IS NOT NECESSARY. A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE IS AS LIKELY TO EXAGGERATE OUR MISERY AS TO EMBELLISH OUR BETTER FEELINGS. FROM A POSITION OF HUMILITY I CANNOT FIGHT BACK.
MANY AMBITIOUS THINGS ARE AT LEAST A BIT IMPRACTICAL. THOUGH IT IS NOT CHARACTERISTIC OF ALL AMBITIONS. ONE CAN FOR EXAMPLE, SUCCEED TO CREATE A PAINTING SUCH AS THIS ONE:
ART PERMITS A CERTAIN DEGREE OF ACHIEVEMENT: A DEFINITE RESULT, A WAY IN WHICH A FORMALISM HAS COMMUNICATED A STYLE (STYLES ARE SIMILAR TO INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS, SO THEY ARE POTENTIALLY INTELLIGENT THINGS, ONCE CONSIDERED BY A THINKING THING. THE CONSENSUS SEEMS TO BE THAT WE THINK ENOUGH THAT OUR THOUGHT EXISTS, AND IN ASIA THINKING MIGHT ALMOST BE A LANGUAGE).
AS FOR THE ART, IT IS POLYMATHIC, BECAUSE IT IS ARTISTIC (MATH MIGHT BE SEEN AS REPRESENTATIVE, AND AFTER ALL PYTHAGORAS INVENTED PHILOSOPHY AND PROBABLY POLYMATHY). SO, WE CAN BE AMBITIOUS, AND WE CAN REPRESENT AMBITION. AMBITION OUGHT TO BE USEFUL TO A FREE-WORD PHILOSOPHER OF THE ABOVE KIND BECAUSE AMBITION IN WISDOM IS A SIGNIFICANT CONCEPT FOR WISDOM, AND WISDOM IS INALIENABLE FROM THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY, EVEN WHEN IT IS UNSUCCESSFUL. IF SOMEONE WISHES TO PURSUE PHILOSOPHY IN THE IDEAL WORLD THEY WILL ALWAYS BE FORCED TO DO SO UNLESS THE WORLD IS NOT IDEAL, BUT UNLESS THEY ARE SO MUCH AN ABSOLUTIST THAT BELIEF IN VIRTUE MAKES IT VIRTUOUS, THERE IS NO WAY TO AVOID THIS CONCLUSION ONCE THEY SET THEIR MIND, BECAUSE THEY WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ABSOLUTE GLOBAL FAILURE. IN MY MIND CHILDREN ARE WISE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT UN-LEARNED LIFE. UN-LEARNING LIFE COULD BE THE EXPLANATION OF DEATH, IN A LITERAL SENSE. A TAUTOLOGY.
WE CAN ALSO REPRESENT IDEAS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE WANT TO ANALYZE PHILOSOPHY, WE MIGHT CALL IT CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, OR EVEN CRITICAL INVENTION. IF WE TRY OFTEN ENOUGH, WE MIGHT COME ACROSS SOMETHING WE OURSELVES INVENTED, THOUGH I REALIZE AS OFTEN HAPPENS, SOMEONE IN THIS CASE PAUL RICOEUR ALSO THOUGHT OF CRITICAL INVENTION, THOUGH HE SEEMED TO MEAN INVENTING AS A PROCESS OF CRITICISM FOR REACHING LITERARY EPIPHANIES SO HIS MEANING COULD BE DIFFERENTIATED FROM MINE.
THOUGH IN THIS CASE THE ART DID SELL, SOMEONE MIGHT NOT APPRECIATE CRITICAL INVENTION. BUT I THINK IF YOU CONSIDER THIS LIKE A PHILOSOPHER YOU WILL AGREE IT WOULD BE A GREAT MISFORTUNE TO FIND NO WORTH WHATSOEVER IN CONCEPTS LIKE MODERN ART, OR THE GENERAL IDEA OF CRITICAL INVENTION.
UNDER THE DEFINITION OF CRITICAL INVENTION AS ORIGINAL ENGINEERING, THE WAY I SET IT UP THIS FORM OF ENGINEERING IS ACTUALLY A FORM OF INTENTIONAL MATERIALISM. BUT IT IS NOT JUST MATERIALISM, IT IS MATERIALISM OF A PROFOUNDLY PHILOSOPHICAL VARIETY. THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME THINK THAT CRITICAL INVENTION COULD BE NOT ONLY RICOEUR’S DISCOVERY. A DIAGRAM MIGHT SEEMS FRESH AND INTERESTING, IF PERPETUAL MOTION IS A METAPHOR FOR THE UNIVERSE THAT ASPIRES TO BE MORE PRACTICAL THAN A VACUUM CLEANER, YOU MIGHT SAY IT’S RIDICULOUS OR YOU MIGHT SAY IT’S THE ANSWER TO LIFE.
IN THIS OBSCURE CASE, LIKE A BIRD HUDDLING IN A TREE, IT BECOME REPROACHABLE TO CONTRADICT AMBITIOUS PHILOSOPHY. AND I THINK OTHERS HAVE FOUND THE SAME IN THEIR OWN SEPARATE WAYS.
AS AN APPLICATIONIST, I CAN ACCEPT THIS SORT OF ENGINEERING CONTINGENTLY ALONG WITH THE COGITO.
Supervisors: Armen Marsoobian and Chelsea Harry
Address: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
NATHAN COPPEDGE IN PHILOSOPHY 490
I THINK I AM SERIOUS BUT PERHAPS NOT --- THAT IS WHAT I AM INVESTIGATING.
AMBITION IS TO ACHIEVE HEIGHT OF INTELLECT--- THAT IS THE CHEAP WAY! (THE WAY THAT DOES NOT DEPEND ON MONEY AND INTERACTIONS). YET GIFTEDNESS IS NOT AVAILABLE TO ALL! ONE CAN CERTAINLY PRETEND---
SIMPLY ADMITTING SOME PRETENSE DOES NOT IN ITSELF RECOMMEND UTTER FAILURE--- THOUGH EMOTIONALLY, FAILURE IS INEVITABLE SOMETIMES--- IT IS ALSO EASILY CIRCUMVENTED FOR AN IDEALIST IF THEY ARE HAPPY---
IF THE GOAL IS TO ACTUALLY BE AMBITIOUS. ONE COULD TRY ORIGINALITY, FOR EXAMPLE, ADDING THE WORD ‘PSYCHOLOGY’ TO THE WORDS ‘META’ AND ‘ORIGINAL’ TO EQUAL ‘META-ORIGINAL PSYCHOLOGY. THESE TYPES OF THINGS MIGHT HAVE MEANING IF ONE IS ALREADY HAPPY, AND IF ONE FINDS MEANING IN THE SPECIFIC THINGS LIKE IDEAS.
THAT PRESENTS ONE WITH SOMETHING AMBITIOUS, EVEN IF IT IS IMPRACTICAL, THOUGH SINCE I FIND MEANING IN IT AND MEANING MIGHT PREVENT ME FROM NEGLECTING MY HEALTH, I MIGHT THINK IT IS NOT IMPRACTICAL AT ALL.
IF I AM BEING DRAMATIC, I MIGHT SAY THAT IT REPRESENTS ELEVATION ONTO A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE, BUT I DO NOT FEEL THE DRAMA IS NECESSARY, BECAUSE A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE IS NOT NECESSARY. A HIGHER PLANE OF LIFE IS AS LIKELY TO EXAGGERATE OUR MISERY AS TO EMBELLISH OUR BETTER FEELINGS. FROM A POSITION OF HUMILITY I CANNOT FIGHT BACK.
MANY AMBITIOUS THINGS ARE AT LEAST A BIT IMPRACTICAL. THOUGH IT IS NOT CHARACTERISTIC OF ALL AMBITIONS. ONE CAN FOR EXAMPLE, SUCCEED TO CREATE A PAINTING SUCH AS THIS ONE:
ART PERMITS A CERTAIN DEGREE OF ACHIEVEMENT: A DEFINITE RESULT, A WAY IN WHICH A FORMALISM HAS COMMUNICATED A STYLE (STYLES ARE SIMILAR TO INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS, SO THEY ARE POTENTIALLY INTELLIGENT THINGS, ONCE CONSIDERED BY A THINKING THING. THE CONSENSUS SEEMS TO BE THAT WE THINK ENOUGH THAT OUR THOUGHT EXISTS, AND IN ASIA THINKING MIGHT ALMOST BE A LANGUAGE).
AS FOR THE ART, IT IS POLYMATHIC, BECAUSE IT IS ARTISTIC (MATH MIGHT BE SEEN AS REPRESENTATIVE, AND AFTER ALL PYTHAGORAS INVENTED PHILOSOPHY AND PROBABLY POLYMATHY). SO, WE CAN BE AMBITIOUS, AND WE CAN REPRESENT AMBITION. AMBITION OUGHT TO BE USEFUL TO A FREE-WORD PHILOSOPHER OF THE ABOVE KIND BECAUSE AMBITION IN WISDOM IS A SIGNIFICANT CONCEPT FOR WISDOM, AND WISDOM IS INALIENABLE FROM THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY, EVEN WHEN IT IS UNSUCCESSFUL. IF SOMEONE WISHES TO PURSUE PHILOSOPHY IN THE IDEAL WORLD THEY WILL ALWAYS BE FORCED TO DO SO UNLESS THE WORLD IS NOT IDEAL, BUT UNLESS THEY ARE SO MUCH AN ABSOLUTIST THAT BELIEF IN VIRTUE MAKES IT VIRTUOUS, THERE IS NO WAY TO AVOID THIS CONCLUSION ONCE THEY SET THEIR MIND, BECAUSE THEY WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ABSOLUTE GLOBAL FAILURE. IN MY MIND CHILDREN ARE WISE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT UN-LEARNED LIFE. UN-LEARNING LIFE COULD BE THE EXPLANATION OF DEATH, IN A LITERAL SENSE. A TAUTOLOGY.
WE CAN ALSO REPRESENT IDEAS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE WANT TO ANALYZE PHILOSOPHY, WE MIGHT CALL IT CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, OR EVEN CRITICAL INVENTION. IF WE TRY OFTEN ENOUGH, WE MIGHT COME ACROSS SOMETHING WE OURSELVES INVENTED, THOUGH I REALIZE AS OFTEN HAPPENS, SOMEONE IN THIS CASE PAUL RICOEUR ALSO THOUGHT OF CRITICAL INVENTION, THOUGH HE SEEMED TO MEAN INVENTING AS A PROCESS OF CRITICISM FOR REACHING LITERARY EPIPHANIES SO HIS MEANING COULD BE DIFFERENTIATED FROM MINE.
THOUGH IN THIS CASE THE ART DID SELL, SOMEONE MIGHT NOT APPRECIATE CRITICAL INVENTION. BUT I THINK IF YOU CONSIDER THIS LIKE A PHILOSOPHER YOU WILL AGREE IT WOULD BE A GREAT MISFORTUNE TO FIND NO WORTH WHATSOEVER IN CONCEPTS LIKE MODERN ART, OR THE GENERAL IDEA OF CRITICAL INVENTION.
UNDER THE DEFINITION OF CRITICAL INVENTION AS ORIGINAL ENGINEERING, THE WAY I SET IT UP THIS FORM OF ENGINEERING IS ACTUALLY A FORM OF INTENTIONAL MATERIALISM. BUT IT IS NOT JUST MATERIALISM, IT IS MATERIALISM OF A PROFOUNDLY PHILOSOPHICAL VARIETY. THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME THINK THAT CRITICAL INVENTION COULD BE NOT ONLY RICOEUR’S DISCOVERY. A DIAGRAM MIGHT SEEMS FRESH AND INTERESTING, IF PERPETUAL MOTION IS A METAPHOR FOR THE UNIVERSE THAT ASPIRES TO BE MORE PRACTICAL THAN A VACUUM CLEANER, YOU MIGHT SAY IT’S RIDICULOUS OR YOU MIGHT SAY IT’S THE ANSWER TO LIFE.
IN THIS OBSCURE CASE, LIKE A BIRD HUDDLING IN A TREE, IT BECOME REPROACHABLE TO CONTRADICT AMBITIOUS PHILOSOPHY. AND I THINK OTHERS HAVE FOUND THE SAME IN THEIR OWN SEPARATE WAYS.
AS AN APPLICATIONIST, I CAN ACCEPT THIS SORT OF ENGINEERING CONTINGENTLY ALONG WITH THE COGITO.
Supervisors: Armen Marsoobian and Chelsea Harry
Address: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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