He moves beyond the modern tendency to focus on the determinate, on what can be pinned down in propositions. Perhaps we are struck by the face of a newborn child, the face of a lover, or the face of a suffering stranger.ĭesmond’s philosophy describes being’s abundance and affirms its worth. Perhaps we are struck by a starlit sky or by mote constellations suspended in a window’s light. The strike of wonder (re)awakens us to this abundance and worth. Being manifests a worth that we did not put there, a worth that can move us to care. Dennis Vanden Auweele claims, “It is abundance that propels thought, not emptiness.” Desmond argues that being is excessive, “overdetermined.” It is more than we can take in. It wonders at the aesthetic richness of the world, at our own mysterious depths, at the strangeness of there being anything at all. William Desmond’s philosophy begins in wonder.
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