Jared Highlen

PhD @bcphilosophy. Hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion.

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Somewhere Gadamer talks about Plato being one of the only 'safe' subjects to write/teach on during the war because the Nazis weren't interested. Guess there's progress after all.

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Texas A&M tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato... https://t.co/DNWucnsmzm

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Waiting for the Christmas Adventurers edition of the new T-Swift

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Congrats @Cleocatrathe1st !

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"What if, instead of boredom, or a lack of imagination, some people buy houses out of love?" #longreads @electriclit

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@SanjanaWrites @Arendt_Center Thanks!

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I wrote about Arendt's view of nature for Amor Mundi @Arendt_Center: https://t.co/ZMXzFk0v7F

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I was deeply saddened to learn of John Sallis's passing. He was a giant. His contributions to philosophy are undeniable, even staggering. He was brilliant. He was also very kind, and dedicated to his students. I am so honored to have been one of them.

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Still waiting on this to open up a rift between trad conservative wing (nominally friendly to Scholastic-style intellectual minutia) and fashy-crypto-bro wing (intellectually bereft and proud of it) of the American right

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Same energy: people complaining about this dissertation and people who dislike the term "fascist" because they think it is just a pejorative and not a political term with an actual meaning.

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And leaving everything else aside it's just kind of funny that she used "olfactory" as this big pretentious academia word when it just means "of or relating to the sense of smell"

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@plateauscave But if one didn't think that any normative orientation toward freedom (or anything non-historical) was necessary for the analysis in question, then it seems like there wouldn't be an issue.

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@plateauscave As I understand it based only on the above, the author is presupposing that "practices of freedom" is normative for any historical practices/norms/etc. under analysis. If so, what are the transcendental conditions for a normative commitment to freedom?

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@KnitIndustrie Ohhh yeah I see what you mean - that's wild actually. At the level of the statement it would all be a priori

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@old_ric Conatus does seem more promising because of Heidegger's treatment of the will, Gelassenheit, etc.

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@old_ric Inclined to agree - I'm not as familiar with Spinoza but I don't see how the finite/infinite substance difference could map on to the ontological difference as Heidegger treats it. As in, I think he would still consider it onto-theological (maybe not, I'm torn)

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World alienation.

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@WilliamsAustinM Thanks Austin!

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@KnitIndustrie Yeah, I think that's right - she really does not do the distinction justice here. If anything it comes across as totally banal.

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@KnitIndustrie (Though "Reflections on Little Rock" might be the exception that proves the rule there, in the worst way).

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@KnitIndustrie When she admits the "double face" of these questions, it is to say that the same thing might be understood qua political (public) or qua social (administrative). She doesn't generally deny the way that they overlap in the concrete. 2/2