Academic literature on the topic 'Toltec philosophy'

This chapter explores Harry Dean Stanton's music and philosophy of life, both very important in understanding him. Music had always been important, an inheritance from his family. His role as the guitar-playing Tramp in Cool Hand Luke (1967) introduced him to many moviegoers both as an actor and a musician. After decades on screen, he confessed to musician and close friend Jamie James that he had a dream of leading a band. He realized that dream in bands that performed everything from old standards to Mexican ballads at venues such as The Mint and The Troubadour. Sometimes both musician and philosopher were on stage, as when Harry Dean asked an incredulous James to stop playing and allow silence to work its magic. Harry Dean had early on rejected the Christian fundamentalism of rural Kentucky and turned toward the teachings of Zen Buddhism, ancient philosophers like Lao Tzu, and modern-day thinkers like Jiddu Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, and Eckhart Tolle. Alex Cox saw "utter mishmash" in Harry Dean's frequent philosophical musings, but others like Ed Begley Jr. said Harry Dean changed their lives by helping them focus more on the present than on the past or the future.

This chapter looks to provide a more thorough account than has yet been offered of how far, and to what ends, Friedrich Nietzsche’s sceptical ‘realism’ was fashioned with an eye on Cynic styles of argument. Starting with the reappearance of Diogenes of Sinope in The Gay Science, it explores the histrionic characterization of der tolle Mensche and his ‘untimeliness’ in ways that open up Nietzsche’s sense of the typology and stylistic gambits of Cynicism as helpful but inadequate models for the lived practice of philosophy. The focus then moves to how Cynicism helps to drive Nietzsche’s thinking in two main respects: first, his attempts to articulate what may be required to be ‘free-spirited’ in one’s philosophizing and fashion a philosophical style in the assumption of that freedom; and, second, the important role of Cynicism in the articulation of the genealogy of morality.

Handil is a mature oil field in Mahakam Block which has been producing for more than 45 years. Following its depletion challenge, more than 90% of Handil’s oil production relies mainly on gas lift, which is circulated from Compressor in the process area. The HEOR (Handil Enhanced Oil Recovery) Compressor is one of the compressors used to supply gas lift in Handil field. HEOR is equipped with two air coolers, namely the interstage cooler (E-5550) and discharge cooler (E-5530). Based on inspection findings, the discharge cooler E-5530 is leaking and out of service. Consequently, HEOR compressor cannot be operated, thereby reducing the rate of gas lift to field and resulting to lower oil production from Handil field. Further study was then carried out to review the feasibility of running the HEOR compressor without its discharge cooler (discharge cooler operation by-passed). Several efforts were performed to ensure the process safety condition as follows: Jumper line size to ensure the deliverability of gas lift rate. The existing 6” jumper line with a rating 1500# is capable to deliver 48 MMscfd with potential debottlenecking to 8” line with a capacity of 86 MMscfd; Stress analysis on piping & pipeline is performed to review the impact of increasing temperature; Water condensation study along the pipeline discharge cooler to check the Top of Line Corrosion (ToLC) issue; Corrosion mitigations with sampling liquid (e.g. pH analysis) and corrosion monitoring requirement (e.g. routine UT measurement at critical sections and chemical injection on critical points as per sampling result); Field trial of the by-pass discharge cooler by utilizing existing configuration were carried out to examine the temperature profile along the pipeline and its impact on the performance of HEOR compressor. The new philosophy of running HEOR compressor without discharge cooler was successfully implemented in the Handil field. The modification is succeeded to boost oil production up to 2,000 bopd thanks to great collaboration among engineering, production method, and site Operation team. All efforts from engineering studies up to implementation in the field are a good lesson learns that can be implemented to other oil and gas field.