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MICHAEL SCOTT THANK YOU DOT GIF
he's cooking rn and well on the right track although transparently im not really learning anything new, its still early tho
nice to see the expression regardless
this isn't entirely true, the main thesis is important and it's recontextualizing and drawing together important strands, i just mean to say that the strands themselves are not new, but what else would one expect
the choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not he choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil.
really fun philosophical history
"it is clear that hume's invocation of sympathy is an invention intended to bridge the gap between any set of reasons which could support unconditional adherence to general and unconditional rules and any set of reasons for action or judgement which could derive from our particular, fluctuating,
circumstance-governed desires, emotions and interests. later on adam smith was to invoke sympathy for precisely the same purpose. but the gap of course is logically unbridgeable, and 'sympathy' as used by hume and smith is the name of a philosophical fiction."