Professor Elam

Transcendentalism Explained

9/26/2024

My students have enjoyed reading Ralph W. Emerson's Self Reliance. I found this lecture delivered by Emerson in Boston in 1842. The object is to explain the nature of Transcendental thinking.

Click here for the lecture.

Emerson was influenced by the thinking of Immanuel Kant.Kant coined the term Transcendental Forms. Here is an excerpt from the lecture.

It is well known to most of my audience, that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental, from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant, of Konigsberg, who replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke, which insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses, by showing that there was a very important class of ideas, or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms. The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature, in Europe and America, to that extent, that whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought, is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.

 

Meet Kent Rollins, the Original Cowboy Cook

Wed Aug 28 2024

Meet Kent Rollins

Like AB, see previous post, Kent started on youtube. He literally cooked for cowboys on ranches in Okalhoma, He blossomed into a one man cooking workshop now with his own website and an array of products. Again this is a true American success story. Like AB he exudes personality on screen, you can see either by going to you tube and inserting cooking wit AB or Kent Rollins.

Start coking and grilling with Aaron Brown

Wed Aug 28, 2024

Aaron Brown AB started out in the kitchen of this tract house cooking on Youtube.

 

Click and look at him now, this guy has terrific on screen appeal, his recipes are relatively simple. Now he has become a real player with a studio to produce videos. He is also selling products.

This is an American success story.

VD Hanson on Higher ED

Monday Aug 12, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson on Higher Ed

Momentum not Motivation Gets You Across the Finish Line

Monday  12/11/23

Yep It's Arnold again, I am finishing grades for fall semester and what he says here is applicable procrastination  is enemy number one.

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Arnold’s Corner: Monday Motivation

We talked a couple of weeks ago about how it is momentum, not motivation, that will give you sustained success.

As much as I love seeing motivational posters with my quotes in gyms, I know that it is not motivation that helps people gain strength and lose weight in the gym. That might get you into the gym. But it is consistency — showing up every day, day after day, even on the bad days, until the habit becomes automatic — that makes you successful.

I also know that people like to create arbitrary dates to start their fitness journeys. The day they pick to start is almost never the best day to start because the best day is today. The best time right now.

But how many times do we say, “The diet starts on Monday,” or “January 1st, I’m finally quitting smoking,” or “My New Year’s resolution is to lose 20 pounds?”

What’s the magic of Mondays, the first of every month, and even January 1?

Let’s just call it what it is: procrastination.

It’s putting off something you know you need to do, maybe even something you WANT to do. It is easier to say you’ll start some day you pick in the future because it means you don’t have to do the work today.

It’s time to terminate procrastinating and make our lives better. That’s why we launched our Finish Strong challenge. You have the first workout today (see the workout of the week below), and you’ll get them every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until the new year. You don’t have to think about anything. You just have to do it.

It starts today. We want to grow this village and give you more motivation to start your momentum now so you aren’t flat-footed and starting from zero on January 1. We ask that you share your workouts on your favorite social media sites, tag me, and use #ArnoldsChallenge.

We will pick three random winners who post their workouts and give them one thousand dollars each. If you’re part of the Pump app, just keep doing your normal workouts and post those because you know we are fanatics about sticking to the program.

That’s pretty good motivation to start building your routine now, isn’t it?

So what are you waiting for?