Connor Griffith

Graduate philosophy student. Interested in virtue ethics, aesthetics, Stoicism, Confucianism, and anarchism. He/him

[Connor Griffith @TheFoolishStoic]

@Rad_Spinozist That *is* one of its purported strengths as I understand it. Not much you can do about nothing. 😅

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@Rad_Spinozist If anything, it seems like it'd be *slightly* more accurate (though still distorted to the point of humor) to make Omniman the philosophers in each case, and to make Mark "nothingness".

EP: Oh man, nothingness? Neat-o!
WP: Look, things either are or they ain't. And you ain't 😤

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@JoshuaLWatson Shooting from the hip, but I've been thinking there's an egoist (core?) aspect to most virtue ethical accounts. I think people give egoism (psych + ethical) a bad wrap.

For some reason, critics think it means you need to be short-sighted. But the ego can encompass a lot!

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@SuperheroFreak Oh, how vicious! 😻

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@JoshuaLWatson I think if I were more inclined towards Christianity, I might be closer to his side of things. But I don't feel much of a push or a pull that way. 🤷‍♂️

Intellectually interested, and I even enjoy talking and thinking about theology, but not much hangs on it for me.

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@JoshuaLWatson I think I have a lot of good conversations with a Leibnizian colleague of mine. I find we're often on or near the same wavelength.

But our points of disagreement are (as far as I can tell) along the exact same lines. Necessitarianism, God/Nature pantheism/atheism, etc.

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@OrthodoxOrigen Welcome to the agora, my sibling in the pursuit of wisdom. 😎

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@AStrasser116 Socratic Intellectualism + Virtue Ethics ftw 🙌

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@SuperheroFreak Plato, is that you?? 👀👀

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@I_Am_Lubeck I've recently got into fountain pens. I'm learning Mandarin (and already speak Japanese, I'm very rusty though). The feel of fountain pens, plus the novelty of learning new 漢字 really got me excited to work on my handwriting. But different strokes for different folks. ✒️🤷‍♂️

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@SIUChasmite "You wanna know about ethics? Well, once you proceed geometrically from God or Nature to metaphysics, epistemology, and moral psychology, then you can probably get a more adequate grasp of ethics."

"Oh btw, classical theology doesn't work the way Scholastics think it does. 😇"

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@cyber_benton Lots of friends and colleagues of mine have referred (positively, or perhaps merely descriptively) to virtue ethics as "vibes ethics".

Vibes are important for realizing harmony, what more does someone want? 🤷‍♂️😄

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Welcome to M.O.E.'s (Master of Executions)

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@SuperheroFreak Mfw I draw the Buddha:

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Remus, last words:

[anti dandruff shampoo @gleeful_slug_]

Why is it called rome after Romulus and not reme after remus

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@SuperheroFreak Well *this* one can't get shrugs! This one gets:

🥺🥺🥺

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@SuperheroFreak 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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@cyber_benton Where *demons* call the shots no less, if I'm not mistaken. 😬

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@SuperheroFreak @JoshuaLWatson Praise be! 🙌