alasdair macintyre containment thread

the beliefs that he has in his mind and heart are one thing; the beliefs that his role expresses and presupposes are quite another

THANK YOU

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

okay wait insane idea do i take the horny pills

just to try them out

lowkey i’m scared of it hurting or getting stuck 😭

tbh i still have like no interest or sex drive so ill just put it off again

maybe i’d give it a go if i had like a week off and was very bored

shklar complete, never wanna revisit again, ive had enough for a lifetime

maybe i'll pop into alasdair tmrw but we're done reading today

shklar containment thread

"for all our wealth of historical experience, we do not know how to think about victimhood. almost everything one might say would be unfair, self-serving, undignified, untrue, self-deluding, contradictory, or dangerous."

thinkin nietzsche and pity atm, hope she gets to it

the best religion, therefore, with peace in view, is the one into which one is born - the one most established in one's country and the one which one is most used to. this is not an attempt to disregard the enormous faults of existing ideologies and institutions.

is it, rather, the recognition that the alternatives are no better. it is the conservatism of universal disgust, if it is conservatism at all.

for in what sense can one be said to support an existing order of affairs if one cannot think of anything to say on its behalf except that it is there? it is an act of perfect dissociation, but not necessarily a retreat from the public world.

i am pretty fond of "the conservatism of universal disgust" as a phrase, but politically it's disastrous and the perfection one achieves is the pathetic purity of ideological complacency.

the anti-anti-hypocrite stance is well-taken but is dragging

oh my god this whole book is dragging im so bored

in fairness the rest of the chapters after snobbery do seem more interesting

rorty did more to make me sympathetic to anti-cruelty, shklar is so uninspiring

lol i have no patience for moralists like this blegh

hm i wonder if it's simply the fact that these are somewhat outdated/inapplicable/out of fashion to us now. would snobbery be included in today's ordinary vices?

20 more mins... good god hurry and end my misery

lemme create a session rudy

raz was also cool because he called williams a bitch ass hoe

bruh my day is ruined i just looked at projections for how long its gonna take for boomer deaths to take off

what happens when i get gen alpha coworkers

aight we wrapped up the morality of freedom, maybe i try shklar next

libbed out weekend babyy

defi gonna take a break tho, head is full

"to the extent that one's ultimate goals tend, as they do, also to be one's most comprehensive goals it follows that in many cases one has no decisive reason for the goals one has which are independent of the face that one has them"

im digging the contextualism in the discussion of social forms

hype hype hype we're talking incommensurability

"to my mind it is an advantage of my argument that it does depend on contingent features of our world" FUCK EM UP

is it legitimate to remove and re-add a track to someones playlist to bump it

*ollie might not be my most frequent companion these days but it sure punches harder than the rest

raz might be my second favorite lib

he had me at incommensurability

microblogging is important because it gets the thoughts out of my head and prevents them from festering