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Dean Millson • 33 cards
What Murdoch took from this “admirable Platonist” was the conviction that seeing well is tantamount to doing well. Discerning the Good—the way the world truly is—whittles down our range of choices to just one.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
The idea of collectivity resembles Hannah Arendt’s later notion of “thoughtlessness,” the condition she associated with Adolph Eichmann.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
The fact is that almost NO philosopher defends these strong foundationalist epistemologies. But almost NO philosopher denies that both everyday and scientific discourse are guided by reasonably reliably, pragmatic, effective standards. Both philosophical positions these days are found somewhere in the middle.
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Does Jordan Peterson understand post-modernism?
