Zhenya………listen, lets have a go with this…..ok

Sasha………..ok



Z…….A Priori…………

S…….Before…….ideas and thoughts……prior to experience or something happens.

Z…….Imagination?

S…….perhaps something like that




Z……Aesthetics

S……never sure about this, a science of looking at art?

Z……philosophy?….studying art

S……yep, overrated.


Z……beauty

S……too big a subject, its like saying food….it means too many things

Z……ok, linked to aesthetics but before the 18thC

S……objects or things contain beauty

Z…….ok

S…….linked to thought, emotions and ideas…….of course imagination.

Z…….ok

S…….its formal things tho’, balance and harmony, perfection……I hate all that.

Z…….me too…..coherence?…..that is so stupid…”non-sense” for me…. and its all that blokes stuff as well.


Z…….Concept

S…….abstract term

Z…….yep…events getting classified again


Z……..Deconstruction

S…….its an illusion

Z……yep….hate all that insistence on coherence again…..texts and meaning


Z…….Dialectics

S……the cat is dead

Z…….yep….but all cats are not dead

S…….all cats don’t bite

Z……they do!

S……ok, but it’s the ground for comparing imagination about things.


Z…….Differend

S…….how are we going to agree

Z……ok…no grounds for agreement



Z…….Discourse

S…….too many rules and attitudes

Z……don’t speak, write or think!!


Z……Empiricism

S……I like this

Z……do you?

S…….you know, knowledge based on experience


Z……Enlightenment

S…….17thC stuff

Z……what? you have faith in science and philosophy

S……perhaps…..c’on


Z……Epistomology

S……theory?

Z……knowledge?


Z…….Idealism

S…….like you…ha

Z……reality, sense of reality formed in our minds


Z…….Ideology

S……false?

Z……conditions of existence
Z…….Imaginary

S……subjects and objects

Z……perhaps, how things are prior to knowledge

S……mmmm….not sure


Z……Judgement

S……how are we going to agree here?

Z……reflection on things, rather than from the senses

S……ok….we aren’t going to agree


Alex………………..Sensuality, snow on roof and sweet soft sounds.


Z……materialism

S……ok, language and material things again.

Z……yep, very debatable again


Z……Metaphysics

S……conditions of knowledge

Z……out of range of senses and experience

S……philosophy?

Z……I guess so


Z……Neo-classical

S…….17th C

Z……Roman empire….Augustan


Z……Neoplatonism

S……nature?

Z……philosophy and plato


Z…….noumena

S……ok…stuff or things that you can’t describe but somehow know.

Z……underlying conditions

S……experience….not knowable

Z……but not in order to make sense

S…….I wish


Z……ontology

S……things in themselves

Z……itself?

S……on its own……..not part of things together

Z……really?


Z……parergon

S……frames

Z……yep…containers


Z……platonism

S……forms and ideas

Z…….eternal?

S……transcendental reality?

Z…….c’on

S…….really?

Z…….now?

S…….go on…why not?

Z..…..go on then.

S…….lets do it

Z……really……reality?

S……of the mind-without senses

Z……Standards?


Misha……..….born to the night and light.


Z……postmodernism

S……skepticism

Z……truth-morality and reason

S……what no enlightenment?

Z……no progress

S……subjects?

Z……yep….not the self


Z……Rationalism

S……pet hate…this one….hate it

Z……really?

S……reason…..as the foundation of knowledge…c’on


Misha………some of us are born to light

Alex………..some of us are born to endless night



Z…….real

S…….ok….big one

Z……gestures towards something

S……I like the idea of gestures, little small things in people gestures

Z……but never grasped

S……yes

Z……everything is impossible

S……really?

Z……missing


Z……skepticism

S……impossible

Z……objective knowledge about how we are?

S……absolutely impossible

Z...….perhaps


Z……stoicism

S……cosmic reason

Z……nature?

S……something like………living in touch with nature


Z……subjectivity

S……forces?

Z…….social and political…history and language.


Z…….sublime

S……high stuff?

Z……no comparison

S……over-powering

Z……undetermined

S……hey we don’t know

Z…….sure…………but don’t give me that bloke stuff again


Z……symbolic

S……language again

Z……how we bring meaning to things

S……sort of


Z……thing

S……void

Z……emptiness


Z……thing in itself

S……independence

Z……of experience?

S……ok



Misha………………………………………….absolute contradictions in everything…..but no fighting

misha...................I am here









masha..................really?







misha...................yes, but the cat what about the cat...........?








masha.................oh no not again