Philosophy
Die Stimme der Energie
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‘Die Stimme de Energie’ (The voice of energy) is the title of a soundtrack from the album ‘Radioactivity’ of the German electropop-group Kraftwerk. In this intriguing text, the dependence of our modern, technological society on energy is expressed by the ambiguity of servitude and mastery. […]
Can Heidegger’s ‘romanticism’ save us?
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I am discussing in this essay , presented in the bachelor course ‘Questions on technology’ of Dr. A.W. Prins, Heidegger’s philosophy of technology in the light of Ihde’s post-phenomenlogical criticism (in German). […]
Freezing summer
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I wrote this hermeneutic reflection on a hot summer day in Washington D.C., on the little terrace of a bed-and-breakfast, close to Dupont Circle and Kramerbooks & Afterwords, one of my favourite bookstores. Wild roses, silent walls and frozen flags – trying to understand Hölderlin. […]
Eyjafjallajökull
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Article published in Post Scriptum, Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2010 (in Dutch). […]
Thomas Aquinas on self-sufficiency and trade
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Thomas Aquinas (1225? – 1274) says in “De Regno, Ad Regem Cypri” (“On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus”)* in Book Two, Chapter VII: “That the city should have an abundant supply of food”: […]
The tragedy of what we call “sustainable development”
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When I visited the information event on the part-time studies philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in May 2006, Prof. Jos de Mul gave a lecture on “The domestication of fate”. […]