http://blueandbrownbooks.com is (or are) a series of notes and informal discussions about ideas Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:52:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our Ontological Baggage: Charles Taylor's Account for Modernity's False Conception of Self The character of modernity has led us to have freedom from a set of moral restrictions. Our 'self' is no longer suppressed and labelled as any one particular thing. I'm not just an insurance salesman, man, I'm also interested ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/09/17/our-ontological-baggage/ This was a mid-term paper I wrote in April of 2007. It is an examination of T.H. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics. I had forgotten about it, and while digging through my old material I happened upon it and was extremely impressed with myself. It's probably one of my favourite things ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/09/15/if-you-can-read-this-you-are-already-presupposing-many-complex-conceptual-frameworks/ This is the ninth mp3 letter 'written' to my nana and RSS fed. I ride a bike to school and talk in stuttered phrases due to pedaling or distraction. There is some apologizing for this. After a quick stop at the Family Mart for some lunch we listen to 'One ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/06/29/letters-to-nana-9/ In reference to the previous discussion of Intellectual Property, this is not to be confused as an argument of art being for art's sake. Keeping in mind that the term 'art' was only really used for lack of a better term for 'the expression of ideas', ideas for the sake ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/06/02/privacy-andin-property/ This is the Eighth Letter to Nana in which I ramble on my way home from a school in North Iwata, and jump on a train to go home to Hamamatsu. In which, I discuss teaching children, change in season / schoolyear / child-development. Also, some Japanese school system attire, ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/04/12/letters-to-nana-8/ Art is the expression of ideas. What are we doing when we engage in the activity and publishing of art or ideas? Here I'm using 'Art' in an extremely broad sense, far more broad than is typical. I'd qualify anything from fiction, non-fiction, painting, journalism, photography, patents, or proofs; intangible, or ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/04/10/intellectual-property/ This is the seventh Letter to Nana in the series in which I write from my school in Iwata and walk about 15 minutes to the station to go home for the evening. I discuss my dad visiting, how it's odd living again with my father, and how much fun ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/03/25/letters-to-nana-7/ Hello, just a minor Housekeeping issue concerning the RSS and the journal entries. I figure that they aren't all that professional sounding, and I want to keep them as frank and blunt as possible so perhaps for the sake of editing, and keeping a separation between a 'published' section and ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/03/25/journal-entries-now-excluded-from-the-main-rss/ Letters to Nana 6 (Video) from Aaron Russin on Vimeo. This is the sixth in the series of Letters to Nana highlighting Jeannine and Aaron's trip to Tokyo in the Winter of 2008. Although there is some amount of preambling in explanation of Tokyo and their trip's itinerary, there is ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/03/06/letters-to-nana-6-video/ I really enjoyed working on the A Cat Named Schrödinger series on epistemology, and I hope it will continue. However, lately I've been interested in how those epistemological commitments explored are expressed and developed as applied to our daily lives. I'll be calling this new series 'Holism', as in developing ... http://blueandbrownbooks.com/2008/03/02/holism/