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I'm not quite happy with it, but I never will be. Enjoy!

Sex and Moral Sight

Goethe, Sex, Idealism, History, BDSM, and More

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okay we call all sorts of things "communities" but "community" as it appears in communitarian views tends to mean something really strong!

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i think i just formed the biggest reading group in the department by casually mentioning that i was interested in reading a new book with other people. maybe i am popular...

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ugh I should have said that you can be an aesthetic realist and believe in response-dependence if the appropriateness of the response comes from a fittingness relation

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You stumble across the identity card of a German drag king. The name? Udo Narrativ.

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there's something very off about celebrity obsession

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I think woke 1 was pretty cool actually : ex AOC fiancee

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they're going to be calling it the most powerful lit review the department has ever seen

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can't tell if this post is just stupid and bad or so stupid it wraps back around to being good

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I think it's just stupid

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can't tell if this post is just stupid and bad or so stupid it wraps back around to being good

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i was talking to my ex about how you can look up AI summaries of tumblr bloggers and it said I was "highly trained in continental philosophy." Kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me

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"you are continental because you work on figures who predate the continental-analytic divide"

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i was talking to my ex about how you can look up AI summaries of tumblr bloggers and it said I was "highly trained in continental philosophy." Kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me

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I don't know what happened. Sometime in the last two years I started to really like Bach. Maybe I am just more Wise and Mature and have Better Judgment.

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Too much alienation is a problem. But I think complete non-alienation would be a form of democratic totalitarianism—the kind which Berlin and Mill (rightly) fear. A little alienation is good. The issue is that utopias are always being imagined by people whose main hobby is politics and the result is something I can only regard as a vision of hell in which we are all touchy-feely and in some nebulous form of "community" with each other. Everyone's whole life becomes public. And the arguments in favor of privacy are always rather instrumental and it's fine to have such arguments. But I think they miss that what makes privacy so nice is that it's privacy! I want time and space all to myself. Anyone who's breathed a quiet sigh of relief when everyone else has left their house knows this. Increasingly everything is for everyone.

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You're not interested in thinking about this seriously so you're only reacting to the least thoughtful versions of these ideas.

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Well the Kaba story is making the rounds and I think it's fine to respond to views that people actually hold. If you, like Socrates, want to guide your opponent to the best version of their view before unleashing the real criticism, then you have to at least start by saying why the flimsy version is wrong. But even putting that aside, I think there's something interesting about the structural role alienation is supposed to play in our moral and political schemes. Like I think the claim that we're not trying to completely get rid of alienation is an interesting one. I don't think Mill and Berlin are just stupid people because they're worried about it and I don't think they're worried about "shallow" versions of these views. Do more sophisticated communitarians exist? Yeah. Riggle can say things about discretionary valuing that ameliorate the issue and feminist communitarians of a care ethics bent can talk about other-recognition. That's great. And it would be nice if everyone held such sophisticated views. But you have to talk about what people actually believe sometimes.

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Re communitarianism— I think it’s fascinating that, in Mariame Kaba’s short story Justice, the heavily communitarian utopia is only disrupted by someone who doesn’t vibe with the abstract notion of community or something? Idk where I was going with this but it seems connected to what you’re gesturing at. All problems stem from individuals not being community-oriented enough or something

I have to admit I was prompted by reading that story and thinking "I would kill myself in such a society." Caught vaguing 😳

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I guess the thing is a lot of people really like going to political marches and so on and feel really good doing that stuff but I just do not at all

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The (strawman) communitarian might think "you are but expressing the perverse deformities of the character of late liberalism par excellence—snobbish, individualistic, unable to even imagine being subsumed into community." To which I say proudly yes!