It is generally accepted in most Zen schools that in order to go beyond the emptiness of human-made concepts and theoretical musings to experience “reality,” one has to go through consistent meditative practices. This is of course the middle way (the way of the Zen). But this statement begs a philosophical question. And that […]
Author: Tony Kashani
INTERDISCIPLINARITY & CULTURAL STUDIES
I should like to go to the 1980s. Let us look at Henry Giroux’s Teachers as Intellectuals (1988), which, I argue, can be used as a handbook for critical pedagogy. In this book Giroux calls for an authentic interdisciplinary approach to teaching. As Michel Foucault identified long ago disciplines were established for social control and organization […]
CORPORATISM & TV JOURNALISM
There is a fallacious claim made by many a corporate TV journalist that he or she is in the business of seeking the truth to the best of his or her ability. Moreover, we are told that after careful fact checking and deliberation with his or her colleagues, this “best version of truth” is presented […]
SOME NOTES ON ETHICS
1. Ethics is an important branch of philosophy. Ethics is part and parcel to Moral Philosophy. This type of philosophy is concerned with questions such as following: What should we do? How should we organize society? What is right? How should we understand the idea of justice? On what basis can we choose between different […]
WHAT IS POETRY?
Poetry saves us when prose fails us Poetry is success at communicative action Poetry is democratic Poetry is egalitarian Poetry is poetic Poetry is liquid Poetry is soul making Poetry reveals the truth about the other That the other is the self and the self is the other unmasked Poetry is passion of existentialist living