Rhodri Lathey

Huge Fedfan. Quantity and Quality are distinct concepts (h/t Aristotle; Fed = GOAT). Nunc est bibendum! Pronouns: I / me.

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@PhilosopherJoeC @PAHoyeck I think Socrates taught me that too.

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@xgabegottliebx There’s a story about Hegel being seen walking around Jena, I think, wearing only one shoe. This possibly explains the title of Mark’s book.

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@xgabegottliebx I thought Schopenhauer completed it after Hegel’s admirable but ultimately flawed attempt ;-)

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@DanielJHannan Max Weber could have written that last sentence.

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@JoshuaLWatson @PhilosopherJoeC Tough audience in tonight… ;-)

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@PAHoyeck What’s the punishment? But more seriously, it perhaps points to the Munchausen element of self-cultivation: that, at the beginning, we are not equipped to understand and appreciate great works - hence the accusation of pretence - but try to pull ourselves up until we are.

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@JoshuaLWatson @PhilosopherJoeC *11

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@thesigmamindset This is remarkably similar to, if not a conscious expression of, what Jung called the ‘Shadow’

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@PAHoyeck I’m a more efficient thinker than Descartes because I only need to dabble in distinct ideas. Realising that they are gives me all the clarity I need… ;-)

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@PhilosopherJoeC @PAHoyeck They sound like my bedroom performances. But probably with higher female satisfaction rates.

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@PAHoyeck You should run the academic equivalent of the juiced up games currently running in Vegas, particularly given that AI outcomes are best when competently directed and probed. Find out just how good these AI written student essays can be!

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@alex_usyd A further suggestion: week 1 should be a lecture explaining why you’ve set what you have. An intellectual map, as it were. It’s not uncommon for students to have no idea of the relevance of the thinkers they have to study. Academia itself can also suffer from this.

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Charles Taylor traced modernity’s “affirmation of ordinary life”: a transvaluation from monastic virtue to production and reproduction — Marxism and Freud, career and family. But both pillars of modern identity are now weakening. What comes after the ordinary life?

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@alex_usyd Weber’s Politics as a Vocation lecture should be compulsory for every student of politics!

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@elle_carnitine Desire isn’t categorically inconsistent with intellectual responsibility. Attraction is largely involuntary. The stronger claim — that serious mentorship extinguishes desire itself — assumes a degree of rational mastery over the passions that Augustine etc. would have rejected.

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@TheHauskarl The term ‘human capital’ or ‘human resource’ should be expunged from everyone’s vocabulary.

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@PAHoyeck Does this include a man appreciating the natural beauty of a woman? If so, and assuming that Murdoch isn’t here condoning lustful self-interest, the use of the word ‘appreciation’ needs to be qualified.

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@PhilosopherJoeC @TaiAmaranth Don’t you think that the Enlightenment project(s) failed to understand that dogmatism is a psychological necessity for many regardless of religion?

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@PhilosopherJoeC @WittgensteinsF2 I, as a militant agnostic, cast a ‘plague on both [their] houses’, referring to theists and atheists. Both camps mirror each other in espousing certainty. I don’t think we can achieve that, and believe that the kind of mindset that does can switch camps more easily than it thinks