Ethics
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Reversion, Reconciliation, and the loving struggle
A bit of knowledge-gathering for making restorative justice a part of my way of life. Continue reading
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2019 — Summer Course
Here you will find the readings for my 2019 Summer II course. Check back frequently for updates. Back to Call Me Maggie homepage Have the assigned readings completed by the time you get to class. The first part of class… Continue reading
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Ethics and The Unblocked Life
Ethics: Acting in a situation with appropriate energy. Doing without overstepping what is necessary for life. (Where “life” is to be held as distinct from mere existence or survival.) And maybe that opens up the next query: What is life?… Continue reading
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Primacy of Ethics over Metaphysics
From a consideration of the primacy of ethics in Dante’s The Banquet by Etienne Gilson in Dante the Philosopher (1948): …the Crystaline heaven, or Primum Mobile, ordains by its motion the daily revolution of all the other heavens, a revolution that enables them to receive and transmit… Continue reading
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Conversion not Improvement
I have ranted before about the cult of improvement in our society. Certainly, a lot of what compels Transhumanism is the search for ultimate improvement. But Kant–I believe rightly–speaks to why a principled existence is a converted life not an “improved” or… Continue reading
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The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is… Continue reading
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Daodejing 28
#28* Knowing power, abiding in modesty; like a stream under Heaven. Like a stream under Heaven- never abandoning eternal virtue, returning at last to purity. Knowing white, abiding in black; like this order under Heaven. Like this order under Heaven-… Continue reading
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Daodejing 24
#24* A show-off never learns A know-it-all never shines A braggart never achieves A boaster never gets ahead All of this is most unnecessary Seen from the viewpoint of the Way The person on the Way avoids all of this… Continue reading
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Daodejing 23
#23* Speak rarely like Nature. Typhoons do not blow all morning. Thunderstorms do not last all day. Who makes the typhoon to blow and storm to thunder? Heaven and earth. If even Heaven and Earth cannot sustain things for long,… Continue reading
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Dreaming Action, Risking Curiosity
“The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers” — William S. Burroughs “Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action — the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the… Continue reading
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Indebted to Capital
“If in times past we were indebted to the community, to the gods, to our ancestors, we are henceforth indebted to the “god” Capital.” Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of the Indebted Man Source: collectorscorner.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles… Continue reading
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Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World
The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power… Continue reading
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