O.G. Rose | The Definitive Primacy of Partial Objects in the Virtuous Gratitude of Lack and Beauty by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Classes Lead by Thomas Jockin for "Plato on Beauty and Virtue" Begin at the Halkyon Guild, July 27th 2024. Sign up today!
halkyonguild.org/plato-beauty
For more:
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A careful reading of Plato’s work reveals that beauty plays a sophisticated role in the metaphysical, ontological, epistemological, and ethical accounts for the Greek thinker. In this lecture series we will read six Platonic dialogues oriented around the topic of The Beautiful.
In this lecture series, we are going to consider how, for Plato, beauty ascends the beloved from appearances to true realities. This is a shocking assertion because, since Hume, beauty has been treated as a personal preference on the same level as favourite ice cream flavour. How could a subjective preference move a pupil from appearances to true reality? When would a preference ever change a person’s entire orientation to life? Thus, in this course, we return to the foundations of thought and see what other mode of beauty we could consider...
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From Paper:
Thomas Jockin is a good friend, and it is an honor and delight to speak with him. In March 2024, we discussed the nature and quality of gratitude, and how there seemed to be a difference between being grateful for something very obvious and apparent (like receiving $100), compared to being grateful for suddenly being able to appreciate and understand Faulkner. Both entail a gratitude, yes, but they also don’t seem equivalent. To be grateful for the $100 seems “fitting” and very linear, while I personally read Faulkner when I was younger, hated it, and then five years later I found myself liking it and seeing what Faulkner was doing. And suddenly and all at once I was grateful for the work William Wilson did to help me understand the text, a way of reading I then carried with me to other books and other experiences of art. My horizon of possibility was changed, but I wasn’t grateful for “the seeds being planted” at the time—that took years. And then I felt gratitude: I understood the patience Wilson had to have with me, as I also understood the patience “the spirit of Faulkner” had to have with me (we could say). And I found myself grateful for forces and processes I didn’t realize transpired. Is this second form of gratitude the same as the first or different? Jockin and I discussed...
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/the-definitive-primacy-of-partial
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/the-definitive-primacy-of-partial-objects-in-the-virtuous-gratitude-of-lack-and-beauty-99e3241d6354
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Thomas Jockin teaches at the University of North George and has been an adjunct lecturer at: City University of New York Queens College, City College and State University of New York Fashion Institute of Technology. Lectures by Thomas can be found online at Fontribute and Philosophy in Design. He is also a practicing typeface designer. Previous clients include Google, Express, Footlocker, and Michael Kors. Thomas‘s fonts are available on Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, and other distributors for use.
Thomas Jockin is also the founder of TypeThursday. TypeThursday is a global superfamily that converges monthly to help one another improve letterforms over drinks. The monthly events around the world start with social time, followed by a moderated group critique of in-progress projects that focus on letterform design and/or usage. The audience may receive, give, or simply listen to feedback.
For a playlist of talks between O.G. Rose and Thomas Jockin, please see:
youtube.com/watch?v=2vsdvrVJX5k&list=PL-lnxUzWjRmio8oC4pl_2UmlBGC5KIEgD
For more by Thomas Jockin, check out his websites:
thomasjockin.com
medium.com/@Thomasjockin
instagram.com/jockinthebox
youtube.com/channel/UC3wcWFLwNY8uQ-2SQiHsLBw
Photo by USGS
Classes Lead by Thomas Jockin for "Plato on Beauty and Virtue" Begin at the Halkyon Guild, July 27th 2024. Sign up today!
halkyonguild.org/plato-beauty
For more:
halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/plato-on-beauty-and-virtue
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A careful reading of Plato’s work reveals that beauty plays a sophisticated role in the metaphysical, ontological, epistemological, and ethical accounts for the Greek thinker. In this lecture series we will read six Platonic dialogues oriented around the topic of The Beautiful.
In this lecture series, we are going to consider how, for Plato, beauty ascends the beloved from appearances to true realities. This is a shocking assertion because, since Hume, beauty has been treated as a personal preference on the same level as favourite ice cream flavour. How could a subjective preference move a pupil from appearances to true reality? When would a preference ever change a person’s entire orientation to life? Thus, in this course, we return to the foundations of thought and see what other mode of beauty we could consider...
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From Paper:
Thomas Jockin is a good friend, and it is an honor and delight to speak with him. In March 2024, we discussed the nature and quality of gratitude, and how there seemed to be a difference between being grateful for something very obvious and apparent (like receiving $100), compared to being grateful for suddenly being able to appreciate and understand Faulkner. Both entail a gratitude, yes, but they also don’t seem equivalent. To be grateful for the $100 seems “fitting” and very linear, while I personally read Faulkner when I was younger, hated it, and then five years later I found myself liking it and seeing what Faulkner was doing. And suddenly and all at once I was grateful for the work William Wilson did to help me understand the text, a way of reading I then carried with me to other books and other experiences of art. My horizon of possibility was changed, but I wasn’t grateful for “the seeds being planted” at the time—that took years. And then I felt gratitude: I understood the patience Wilson had to have with me, as I also understood the patience “the spirit of Faulkner” had to have with me (we could say). And I found myself grateful for forces and processes I didn’t realize transpired. Is this second form of gratitude the same as the first or different? Jockin and I discussed...
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/the-definitive-primacy-of-partial
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/the-definitive-primacy-of-partial-objects-in-the-virtuous-gratitude-of-lack-and-beauty-99e3241d6354
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Thomas Jockin teaches at the University of North George and has been an adjunct lecturer at: City University of New York Queens College, City College and State University of New York Fashion Institute of Technology. Lectures by Thomas can be found online at Fontribute and Philosophy in Design. He is also a practicing typeface designer. Previous clients include Google, Express, Footlocker, and Michael Kors. Thomas‘s fonts are available on Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, and other distributors for use.
Thomas Jockin is also the founder of TypeThursday. TypeThursday is a global superfamily that converges monthly to help one another improve letterforms over drinks. The monthly events around the world start with social time, followed by a moderated group critique of in-progress projects that focus on letterform design and/or usage. The audience may receive, give, or simply listen to feedback.
For a playlist of talks between O.G. Rose and Thomas Jockin, please see:
youtube.com/watch?v=2vsdvrVJX5k&list=PL-lnxUzWjRmio8oC4pl_2UmlBGC5KIEgD
For more by Thomas Jockin, check out his websites:
thomasjockin.com
medium.com/@Thomasjockin
instagram.com/jockinthebox
youtube.com/channel/UC3wcWFLwNY8uQ-2SQiHsLBw
Photo by USGS
