Tommy Lynch

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at @chiuni. I answer questions about philosophy, religion and ethics from GCSE and A-Level classes. Views my own.

[Tommy Lynch @askanacademic]

Looking forward to marking #InternationalWomenDay by discussing feminist concepts of freedom with some Y12-13s in Manchester. Feminist political philosophy and epistemology are a big part of what I teach at @chiuni and it's great to have a chance to share that with students.

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This New Yorker piece raises some fantastic questions about modern warfare and just war: https://t.co/s9qkwFZHGb

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I mean I knew it was true, but they were so surprised I couldn't help but wonder...

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Has anyone else ever been teaching and said something that caused such a dramatic reaction that you wondered if you had it wrong?

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The other day I was discussing the prevalence of antisemitic attitudes in the history of Europe. I mentioned that the Magna Carta has sections that deal with debts owed to Jews and the students couldn't believe it.

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@TheREPodcast1 To be fair, it’s not a classic in the field - I just wish it was!

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I wish more people who worked on the problem of evil would read Lynne Arnault's 'Cruelty, Horror and the Will to Redemption'. It's an amazing essay. https://t.co/Zbv2A522ej

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@MzMarxRE @AlevelRE @reonline_tweets @TeamRE_UK I still use the video with our undergrads though - they just have to listen to me rant about how it’s difficult to put the fundamentals of experience into language...

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@MzMarxRE @AlevelRE @reonline_tweets @TeamRE_UK Hegel was trying to explain (amongst other things) that we’ve fundamentally misunderstood the relations between subjects and objects. That’s hard to put into language!

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@AlevelRE @MzMarxRE @reonline_tweets @TeamRE_UK But Hegel scholarship has changed so much (there’s now a very influential non-metaphysical reading) that logical positivist critiques of Hegel may be critiquing an understanding of his ideas few people still endorse.

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@AlevelRE @MzMarxRE @reonline_tweets @TeamRE_UK Agreed! I don’t think there’s a connection that would be important for A Level students.

Hegel is sometimes used as the example of metaphysical thinking results in ludicrous ideas.

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I remember being in the room for this event - it was an incredible discussion. Cone's points about anger really stuck with me.

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For anyone who teaches James Cone, there's a great video of Cornel West interviewing him about his life and work: https://t.co/ngkFCPIjRk

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I would have loved this as a teenager

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I will be delivering this course from January. Please share with anyone who might be interested.

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@Toffeemen68 Just reading through it through this morning. Really great! And disturbingly familiar...

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Another great piece for #worldphilosophyday - Harry Frankfurt's 'The Importance of What We Care About'. We place a lot of emphasis on the value of choice and freedom. Frankfurt points out that in two key aspects of life - love and reason - we don't really 'choose'.

[Ian P. McCarthy @Toffeemen68]

@askanacademic Here is an alternative link, where you can access and share the paper for free:

https://t.co/QeAKvWplFT

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@Toffeemen68 Thanks! It seems like a really good application of the idea.

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This seems.... not good.

https://t.co/7tTA7wQ7aG