Aaron Michael Moore
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Theologian/Philosopher |
| Location | Pasadena, California |
| Introduction | “The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.” ― Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God |
| Interests | A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. - Martin Heidegger "Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire." "The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims." "The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other" — Slavoj Žižek |
| Favorite movies | The Milky Way, Belle De Jour, Galaxies Are Colliding, Wings of Desire, Little Ashes |
| Favorite music | Talking Heads, Neil Young, Radiohead, The Smiths, The Cure, Tom Waits |
| Favorite books | Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, Being and Event, Sophie's World, Aftermath Seeks That Flame Which Consumed the Bomb Wick, Of Grammatology, In Defense of Lost Causes, The Fragile Absolute, The Communist Hypothesis |