Author
John Douglas Macready is a doctoral student and adjunct instructor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is currently focusing his research on the problem of human dignity in the work of Hannah Arendt. This research will culminate in a dissertation project, which will examine the roots of Arendt’s concept of human dignity in the German literary and philosophical traditions, including Walter Benjamin, Karl Jaspers, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Immanuel Kant, as well as more ancient and medieval roots in Aristotle and St. Augustine.
History & Purpose
The Relative Absolute was launched by John Douglas Macready on Blogger in April, 2008 in an effort to make public his private philosophical musings. Initially the blog focused on the work of the Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri (the title of the blog is taken from Zubiri’s philosophical anthropology) but soon took a wider focus. After a year on Blogger the blog was moved to Word Press. Today The Relative Absolute is devoted to discussing the work of Hannah Arendt and the related topics of human dignity, human rights, and genocide. The blog also addresses pragmatic issues related to philosophical practice in general.
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Mr. Macready,
I am an undergrad philosophy student at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. I enjoyed what I’ve read of your writing here very much. I’m working on comparison with Buddhism,Heidegger, McCarthy, and Camus on my time apart from my studies. Thank you for providing an informative perspective.
Sincerely,
Daniel Hettenbach
P.S.
blood meridian or the evening redness in the west by mccarthy is in my opinion the best novel ever written
Hey you. Your The City of God as Pariah was fantastic. I forwarded it a colleague whose dissertation was on hospitality, as I fortuitously stumbled upon it researching my dissertation on St. Augustine (plus I’ve loved Arendt since grade school i.e. undergraduate). From your musings, I’d actually venture to say that you’d be fascinated by Buddhism’s understanding of relative and absolute time/truth. I wish you well. L
Thank you for your thoughtful writing.
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