Schalk Engelbrecht

Student of Philosophy, Ethicist, Utopian, Runner

[The Institute for Ethics in AI @EthicsInAI]

Our colleagues ⁦@CarissaVeliz⁩ and ⁦@JTasioulas⁩ contribute to this discussion of the biggest question confronting us this century along with Noam Chomsky, ⁦@juliansavulescu⁩ and others. #WorldPhilosophyDay https://t.co/BAHucsflmA

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@CharacterGap Jacques Derrida, The Work of Mourning

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https://t.co/vVxC6Lw2IW

Does it have to be birdsong? What about a little robin-chat?

[The Guardian @guardian]

Bird and birdsong encounters improve mental health, study finds https://t.co/n3X3Ac1ZIc

[michael mezz @michaelmezz]

listen to her explain the Van Gogh soup protest.

she’s got a point, no?

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@rebecca_roache Beautiful. But may we inquire about Puff's wellbeing?

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@CharacterGap @OUPPhilosophy @WakeForestNews @templeton_fdn I honestly want this book.

[Christian Miller @CharacterGap]

Book Giveaway! I will select two winners of a free signed copy of my latest book, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue." Must retweet and follow (if needed) to enter. Please share!

@OUPPhilosophy @WakeForestNews @templeton_fdn

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@paulbloomatyale Thank you for promoting and sharing this event and link, @paulbloomatyale. Attended a very stimulating panel. Please share again in future.

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@DoctorSpurt Spike Jonze (selectively), Hitchcock (indiscriminately), Wes Anderson

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https://t.co/GInP10Cg1n

[Requier Wait @RequierWait]

I had an engaging conversation with @SchalkEngelbrec. We discussed ethics in the time of COVID-19. @PhilosMaties #ethics #covid19 #podcasting https://t.co/l48G2VoKZK

[Chris Roper @ChrisRoper]

This was really just a homage to Gary Larson. I saw a gap, and I took it.
“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."

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https://t.co/ybDPenrwhp

Notes from the lockdown

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"Yes, that's it, an always within never.

...from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never.

Beauty, in this world." (Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog)

"... and the lesson today is how to die" (Bob Geldof, the Boomtown Rats)

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...maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never

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Talking trash. An exercise in not practicing what you preach.

GBV and #MenAreTrash: Men should be seen and not heard https://t.co/BakT8ImHwL

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A win for ethical veganism or missing the point entirely? https://t.co/7uJucLslZN via @BusinessLiveSA

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#7deadlysins The greek for sin "hamartia" (from archery) - "to miss the mark". Also a heroic "fatal flaw". Our protagonist humanity & its instantiation "me" misses. Thanks @stephenfry Did you help sin trend or has it been trending since Eve advertised apples in the Mall of Eden?

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@MarsMorgan007 Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed the topic and the audience!

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"To be human is to leap toward our highest moral potentialities, only to trip over the foibled actualities of our reflexive patterns. To be a good human is to keep leaping anyway." Maria Popova

Spectacular.

https://t.co/nl4nwN2zyb