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Moral Minority’s episode on Kierkegaard’s Repetition(1843) is now live. Listen to
@DevinGoure
and I attempt to make sense of this underread and mysterious, genre-bending work. In fact, listen to it twice. Much is gained in the repetition.
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Book haul courtesy of the unsurpassed John K. King Bookstore in Detroit. How did I make out?
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Kierkegaard was right about the Hegelians. Having comprehended the totality of World History in the system, they’ve left behind the solitary human being who still has to figure out how they are to live.
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A recent poll has revealed that academics don’t read books. They skim and excerpt. Another win for the theorycels and para-academics who, despite their many flaws, obsessively read books cover-to-cover.
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I’m wrapping back around to feeling sorry for this human being who has clearly lost all semblance of a reality outside her warped constellation of texts and signifiers. Yes, she’s doing third-way fascism, but she genuinely doesn’t understand what she’s doing at all.
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Self-immolation is radical moral protest. Examined as a form of suicide, it differs in its intentional object: it is not a rejection of life, but the negation of a life to compel attention back to life. As a moral act, it’s consciousness-breaking and supererogatory.
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I’m begging you all to stop giving the Hegelian E-Girl Coalition any additional publicity, ironic or otherwise. As a social phenomenon, it is more fatuous than Dime Square pseudointellectual posturing, but just as fashionably reactionary, vacuous, and extremely annoying.
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Marx is a moral philosopher. If the point of philosophy is to change the existing state of things, then that presupposes a normative direction of change (towards a correct, more inclusive conception of justice).
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Don’t let anyone ever tell you there isn’t unsubtle ideology at work at your local bookstore.
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The best part about self-styled “Left Nietzcheans” is that they actually do the reading and treat it with subtlety and moral seriousness instead of cherry-picking bombastic aphorisms and practicing the genuinely fascist hermeneutic of literalizing everything.
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You’re right. No one respects these guys and it’s laughable to think that their interpretations have had an enormous influence on how people view Nietzsche’s relevance for the left.
one doesn't need to know anything at all about philosophy to know that anyone who calls himself "Left Nietzschean" can't be taken seriously.
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Tik-Tok is an obnoxious platform and I would never mourn its demise due to natural causes. I must oppose, however, fascist encroachment on the free exchange of information An executive order creating a national firewall is an unacceptable precedent.
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@moonbeeaam
The biochemical theory of depression is one of the more pernicious forms of reduction in that it elides the human element entirely. Depression isn’t a sui generis fatedness but a situated responsiveness to social conditions, dispositional qualities, and intentionality.
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“What? We have to interpret a work exactly as the period that produced it? But we have more pleasure, more amazement, and also more to learn from
It precisely if we do not interpret it that way!”(Dawn, 506).
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@madtranny
A warrant for punishment requires a defense of moral desert—it must be the case that one is justified in proportioning violence against another person in virtue of an act or character trait which has rendered them fit for punishment. There are no such actions or character-types.
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What’s your favorite philosophical novel? In my opinion, a PN foregrounds a paradox that its narrative structure doesn’t seek to solve, but bring into relief by wedging itself into the reader’s consciousness like a thorn in the cerebrum. My favorite:
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All I know for certain is that hodgepodge gnostic mysticism, Lacan, neo-Christian resentiment, Hegelian babble, and other psychoses will not save us or contribute anything meaningful to online philosophical discourse.
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@NathanJRobinson
Nathan, I love you, comrade--but they simply don't care. They know he will lose and they are fine with it.
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And make no mistake: her whole “project,” in so far as you can piece together any coherency within it, is solely to give sophistical warrant to a venomous ire that finds its target everywhere and nowhere. In other words, it’s the mass psychology of fascism.
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“…civilization is a game we play together, relating to each other through our disengaged reason, and thus maintaining the standards…Civilization is in a sense a matter of feeling shame in the appropriate places.”
-Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
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Booker has “lost”. He “lost” the moment his candidacy was recognized as a legitimate threat to establishment democrats. He “lost” when they cut Kentucky’s thousands of polling locations down to a few hundred. He “lost” when they took a week to count ballots.
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My biggest issue with the Hegelian E-girl alliance is not the antisemitism or the sophistical mumbo jumbo or even the extremely pathetic 90s edgelord aesthetics—-it’s how boring they all are even with all their boorish and predictable antics. What losers.
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Me after another extremely online philosopher tells me that there are no moral properties and judgments about the good and the right (“genocide is wrong”) are not truth-apt and merely express subjective preferences of approval or disapproval.
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@eleanoir
I adore Chappell Roan as a malleable vessel of all assimilated gay culture of the last thirty years. Her ability to pivot from one such genre—Gagaesque dance pop on one track to Lana Del Rey self-effacing ballad on the next—is delightful.
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“Nobody wants to work anymore” is moralistic, ideological mystification for “workers are less psychologically pliant and we need new forms of social discipline to make people willing slaves again.”
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Simone de Beauvoir was anti-TERFing it in 1949. Her language is defiantly existentialist in its refusal to accept “destiny” as reducible to biotruths. These material influences are the background (“the situation”) upon which the foregrounded transcendental subject plays upon.
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Ladies, I’m asking you to dump your cop boyfriends. Not for me, but for the revolution.
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All my homies hate concreteness. We’re cynical secularists whose symbolic imaginary falsely annuls the immediacy of religious faith. We’re Oedipalized, proto-subjects. Psychotheologically, we’re insufficiently dialectical and lacking in jouissance. We’re disappointments.
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Astonishing intellectual myopia: You can become a tenured professor in any analytic department in the U.S. without so much as skimming Hegel. In fact, you can categorically dismiss Hegel as an obscurantist or so much sophistry and this is considered a respectable position.
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Might fuck around and argue that Brothers Karamazov remains the most morally passionate and persuasive piece of philosophical fiction and that it should be global required reading for everyone; moreover—you should re-read it throughout your life.
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If you cannot distinguish between genuine intelligence that comprehends and synthesizes what it has read and scattershot, mystifying bullshit artistry, the fault lies within you. It is not difficult to avoid cults of personality in your desire for intellectual community.
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For a communist, a conservative friend is someone who thinks capitalism can be reformed.
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@kittystremy
At a certain point, the exhibitionist depressive disqualifies themselves from friendship. Part of friendship is knowing when it is appropriate to share your sorrows with others and when it is an imposition.
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Very few are bold enough to demand that the next stimulus include a ration of psychedelics for all working class Americans.
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If your favorite philosopher is Giles Deleuze, you may be a redneck.
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@carl_b_sachs
Science fiction is a literary mode, capable of sublime artistic expression, but typically remains at the level of cultural junk food.
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It is the middle ground between submission and domination, between heteronormativity and deviance, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his orgasm. This is the dimension of edging. It is an area which we call the Cuck Zone.
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Inspired by
@DevinGoure
’s illuminating thread on suggested reading order for Nietzsche, here is how I’d guide newcomers through the singular individuality of Søren Kierkegaard
🧵1/10
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Encapsulate your philosophical outlook in a screencap. I'll go first.
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Nietzsche’s most radical ontological posit is that we’re disjointed, decentered multiplicities(bundles of agonistic drives)organized under the feeling of power and spurred contingently into action by unknowable motives rather than agential causes of free action.
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@ayyy_vuh
Trans women are amongst the best posters are this site. That’s all I needed to know to love them.
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I will end friendships if you vote for Biden (assuming he is anointed as nominee).
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Liberals would happily give their lives for a new Aaron Sorkin miniseries right now.
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I was just called up to the office and told that I can’t talk about COVID-19 and how we should be closed at work with my coworkers because I’m inciting fear amongst my coworkers. I was given the option to take leave for the duration of the pandemic (without fault allegedly).
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Undergraduate class discussions are without fail a strained exercise in listening to the same five people talk (four of them are male).
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There was time when I really enjoyed Philosophy Twitter. I truly did. I’m afraid this placid time is but a distant memory because a few of you had to be inexplicably horny on main for Immanuel Kant, one of the least horny people of all time.
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New week, new book acquisitions. I will need to purchase 3 more to meet my weekly quota.
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Genuine question: Has either party ever taken a principled stand concerning bodily autonomy, sexual harassment, and rape, except when it was politically expedient to do so? If not, how do you justify allegiance to either party?
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As witnesses to its symbolic power, we are unnerved and in awe; but that is precisely the function of its protest—to place us beyond good and evil; unmoored in teleological suspension, full of fear and trembling at what might be required to make moral indifference unthinkable.
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@marwilliamson
@TomPerez
Marianne, will you be the first public figure to disavow the DNC and call for its dissolution?
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@non_philosophy
“We are friends of the lento, I and my book. I have not been a philologist in vain—perhaps I am one yet: a teacher of slow reading. I even come to write slowly. At present, it is not only my habit but even my taste—a perverted taste, maybe—“
—Daybreak, Nietzsche
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A phenomenology of modern wage labor ought to be written. Most people I know (including myself) make minimum wage or less and the affective rhythms of their days are pegged to the cycle of paychecks-a perpetual anxiety of falling short; a stasis of present, past, and future.
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Nietzsche’s theory of drives, a plurality of unknowable, agonistic motives-for-action, connects to his normative theory in quasi-naturalistic fashion: moral evaluations are reducible to acquired physiological responses dynamically interacting with person and circumstances.
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Repetition(1843) is an elusive, epistolary work by Kierkegaard in which the pseudonymous author, Constantin Constantius, introduces a new philosophical category—repetition, which he claims will be of decisive importance. 🧵1/x
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It’s my birthday. By social convention, I am entitled to perfunctory recognition.
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What if I told you I have a friend who has been reading Hume with a fine-toothed comb for months, searching for a solution to the problem of induction, motivated to reclaim the possibility of objectivity, only to retrace Kant’s path exactly? Would you call this figure farcical?
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It's morally acceptable to wish death upon the powerful. It may even be your duty to actively cheer it on.
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I’m not even sure that the end product of Lacanianism isn’t right-wing, but I’m certain Lacan and his acolytes are responsible for more sophistical bloviating and priestly esotericism than most right-commentators could produce in a lifetime.
what's your (non-right wing, too easy) book that you think would be better if it didn't exist? that book that induces so much false confidence in its readers that it feels like people who read it know less than they would have if they didn't (because now they 'know' bullshit)?
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If the Kentucky election isn’t called in the next 48 hours, it is safe to assume that Booker actually won, but will never be declared the winner.
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Moral Minority is excited to release our interview with Vanessa Wills on her essential new book, Marx’s Moral Vision. We discuss the normative role of labor, ideological critique, and the abolition of morality claim. It was an impassioned discussion, hence the gesticulating.
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My most cringe philosophical opinion is that one can spend a lifetime reading exclusively Plato and in so doing grapple with all the enduring problems of philosophy. Even worse, this alone would suffice as a rigorous program in the art of critical thinking. Plato is enough.
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The Republic is the ur-text of the inseparability of politics and moral philosophy. Every substantive normative position implies an ideal political arrangement and vice versa.
Why do people think the Republic is a work of political philosophy? It is a work of moral psychology
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@benegotherit
I was recently in a local bookstore that had dispensed with any recognizable genre sorting and shelved books based on the personal inclinations and reading habits of their employees. “Jess’s Section,” “Milo’s Picks,” etc.
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It's morally acceptable to wish death upon the powerful. It may even be your duty to actively cheer it on.
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I’ve been workshopping a term to describe the tendency of doctrinaire Marxists to selectively historicize certain figures as part of a reactionary lineage(racist, imperialist, aristocratic) while giving others a pass. The term I’ve proposed is hermeneutically sealing.
@sense_squirrel
@LFMedinaMadrid
Sure, but it’s a basic question. For example, Hegel was a monarchist, but Marxists see Hegelian philosophy as essential for the left. Why is the same move out of bounds when it comes to Nietzsche? I have yet to hear a convincing answer to this question.
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I am told that if I decide to take a leave of absence it is a “personal choice” based on my “fear.” The owner doesn’t want to close, but they respect my “choice” to be afraid. Astonishing...
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Here’s an hard and fast way to identify a pseudointellectual. If someone makes an outrageous claim and you call it out and their response is “read x, y, z” then you’re dealing with someone who is making an appeal to authority without the ability to reconstruct their arguments.
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“What is great about human beings is that they are a bridge and not purpose: what is lovable about human beings is that they are a *crossing over* and a *going under*”
—Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche has a theory of human nature—or what should become our second nature.
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Posing dead-eyed wih mint condition, uncracked philosophy texts to signal to my followers that I have clearly done the reading and I’m not an illiterate grifter.
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@shaun_vids
You should also continue telling people (very clearly) that you won't vote for Biden, but they of course are free to do as they like.
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“Amusement always means putting things out of mind, forgetting suffering, even when it is on display. At its root is powerlessness. It is indeed escape, but not, as it claims, escape from bad reality but from the last thought of resisting that reality”(116).
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Has everyone received the message yet? Politics doesn’t happen at the ballot box. It happens on the street. Politics isn’t asking nicely or lobbying patiently over years. Politics is direct action and reaction.
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@enniottefire
“Reconciled laughter resounds with the echo of escape from power; wrong laughter copes with fear by defecting to the agencies which inspire it. It echoes the inescapability of power”
—Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Kierkegaard was a prodigious coffee drinker. Garff, in his biography, relates that he had over 50 unique cup and saucer sets and would first fill up his cup with a mound of sugar towering over the brim and then slowly pour coffee over the mound before downing it in one gulp.
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My philosophy in a tweet, as things stand:
Ontology: Panpsychism
Epistemology: Moderate Foundationalism (Virtue Epistemology)
Philosophy of Religion: Historicism
Theology: Existentialism
Politics: Anarchism
Moral Philosophy: Intuitionism
Meta-ethics: Ethical Non-Naturalism
My philosophy in a tweet, as things stand:
Ontology: Reductive Physicalism
Epistemology: Pragmatics
Philosophy of Religion: Metaphysical Naturalism
Theology: Taoism
Politics: Leftist
Moral Philosophy: Rule-Consequentialism
Meta-ethics: Ethical Non-Naturalism
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If you use ontology interchangeably with metaphysics, I doubt we shall ever be friends.
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@JoshuaLWatson
I don’t quite understand either, but the disdain for moral philosophy is related to a hostility to religion and metaphysics in some corners of the tradition. Some Marxologists treat the implicit normative commitments of Marx’s economic critique as a secondary embarassment.
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Watch how these white liberals protesters behave. Listen to their sententious speeches, hands raised in the air; singing GIVE PEACE A CHANCE with kneeling cops. White liberals think they can exorcise racism.
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Scene. Two philosophers on a fishing boat; facing away from each other.
A: (apropos of nothing): He was right, you know.
B: Who exactly was right?
A: Plato.
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A: Everything.
The philosophers sit in a pocket of agreeable silence.
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Analytic philosophers would rather pretend Derrida's deconstruction of logocentricism never occurred than go to therapy.
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My ex just texted me that she spent all morning scrubbing and cleaning the streets with thousands of volunteers, removing dozens of "Fuck 12" tags because the debris is a public health hazard and the children don't need to read profanity. This is what she considers activism.
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Aristotle would’ve loved the serious Marx reader who rejects Marx’s entire theoretical apparatus on the grounds that there are only concrete particulars.
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My only Esthetic opinion is that we should return to the random Capitalization of Words that made the 18th and 19th-centuries literature and philosophy so Kooky.
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Liberals would happily give their lives for a new Aaron Sorkin miniseries right now.
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It’s simply untrue that life devoid of work would be suicidally dull. The modern notion of work is inseparable from alienation and the immiseration of wage-labor. No one who defends “work” is talking about meaningful, self-directed activity. We are not Aristotelian aristocrats.
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