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GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) is important in philosophy through his denial of the existence of matter—a denial which he supported by a number of ingenious arguments.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
We have discussed how keywords lead to governing metaphors (“metaphors we live by”) and how those metaphors do a tremendous amount of underground work, directing our responses to others in ways that we’re often unaware of.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
可能是我已经习惯 2024 的内容了，第一幕的展开对我来说有一点无聊，但我很庆幸自己坚持看下去，全部看完还是挺好看的。电影几乎敢嘲笑一切，展示了很多如今看来已经过分的桥段，但就像处理谋杀一样，电影用了一种戏谑到讽刺的方式呈现，笑的时候也能减轻几分负罪感。
社会并非忽视学校，学校本身就是社会的缩影。青年人常常感叹自己不被当作人类看待，正是因为他们确实被当作人类看待——被当作需要被规训、被塑造的社会个体。青年的生活空虚、迷茫，身处这种可笑的规训之中，能怎么做，是去适应还是去破坏？对于 Heathers 来说，她们和其他人一样接受这种游戏，并且她们更是游戏中的佼佼者，对她们而言，就算是自杀事件也无所谓，因为生命中的一切不过是这场游戏中的筹码，她们能适应游戏，但以对个体性的放弃为代价，最终也成为游戏的
... See moreHis work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Hollywood tends to extremes;
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
his philosophical idealism
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
The disordered love of learning makes you a mere technician of information for some end other than wisdom, and the irony is that philosophy could devolve into just another way of idolizing.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
