that was pleasant yay

listening to separate people simultaneously verbalizing their actions and ignoring one another is actually incredibly satisfying

*logs into main to follow slices then log out* "i wonder what all these notifs are" oh its just me quoting myself

"in practice the reference implementation is more authoritative than the spec"

github.com/did-method-p... updates.microcosm.blue/3lz7nwvh4zc2u

self-reflection as a form of self-harm

illinois tollway thanks me for my payment, never again

if anything it's a release on a supervenience relation i.e. a denial of the hypostasization of identity into a supervenience relation with reality. the naive materialist inversion gets its appeal from the disruptive impact but nonetheless maintains the connection in too strict and uncontextual a way

i think the core wish is actually still understandable though, it would be a radically different culture and scheme of categorization, which would basically undermine the distinct significance and mystification of identity as such

it is, of course, for that precise reason that the strategy is not viable. but the reductivist simplicity is compelling in the same way that nietzsche's fantasies of unreflective aboriginal masters is

oops

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

"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."

LOL wait fuck i accidentally posted all this in the wrong thread

i feel bad for the TAs that had to grade my papers lol

i wonder what pedagogical styles would develop if our institutions took a different shape

i respect simone schweber for her attempts to go against the grain, i'm not sure how successful she was

but then again, i always feel obligated to say that we were the ones that let her down, not the other way around

"twentieth-century social life turns out in key part to be concrete and dramatic re-enactment of eighteenth-century philosophy. and the legitimation of the characteristic institutional forms depends upon a belief that some of the central claims of that earlier philosophy have been vindicated"

machievelli's invocation made me grin, we are so back folks

"not one game is being played, but several, and, if the game metaphor may be stretched further, the problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3 may always be replied to with a lob across the net" :)

just as unpredictability does not entail inexplicability, so predictability does not entail explicability

taking stock so far, i basically think this is a 10/10 book so far. we're heading into chapter 10 which seems like a turning point and im anxious (/pos) to see what comes next

also i just wanna say, i really enjoy his writing style. it's nice and comfortable and clever. i adored the kautsky reference with "road to power", there are so many subtle things like that

i like the sophrosuni virtue, it comes up in nietzsche every now and again

"there are indeed crucial conflicts in which different virtues appear as making rival and incompatible claims upon us. but our situation is tragic in that we have to recognize the authority of both claims. there is an objective moral order, but

our perceptions of it are such that we cannot bring rival moral truths into complete harmony with each other and yet the acknowledgment of the moral order and of the moral truth makes the kind of choice which a weber or a berlin urges upon us out of the question.

for to choose does not exempt me from the authority of the claim which i chose to go against."

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