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A beautiful, beautiful way to begin a literary-critical theoretical essay
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Let me show what he says about Eliot’s ‘disassociation of sensibility’: “"dissociation of sensibility"-it has not always gone under that name-is an attempt to project upon the history of poetry a modern theory of the image” — with sources such as Blake, Coleridge, Schopenhauer
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Growing up in Los Angeles, I honestly never did care for palm trees aesthetically, with their long bare necks and drunken swaying in the wind, I would be happier if they were all removed. I was astonished to find they aren’t even native, they were purposefully introduced
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I don’t think any of them have written on it in this manner but it’s easy to imagine an effective altruist critique of the Sermon on the Mount. For example, the EAs encourage public declarations of one’s righteousness, they want billionaires to take ‘the giving pledge’. Compare:
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It must be said that in an era of massive scales of effects we need some kind of ethics for the bureaucrat, technocrat so I think it is a mistake for anyone, no matter how enthusiastic about (for example) the ethics of Aristotle to cede the topic to utilitarian consequentialism.
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Of course! EA is just applied consequentialism, which has always been an explicitly depersonalized "moral" theory. This rot has been with us for some time. It's the ethics of the bureaucrat/technocrat; an obvious fit for an age content to live by algorithm/maximizing outcomes.
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What I would most like to read I think is a nuanced comparison of hedonistic unrestricted consequentialism behind EA with an authentically Christian ethics as it’s fair to say that Christ too would seem to call on us to develop universal love for man as such (‘love your enemy’)
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I don’t think any of them have written on it in this manner but it’s easy to imagine an effective altruist critique of the Sermon on the Mount. For example, the EAs encourage public declarations of one’s righteousness, they want billionaires to take ‘the giving pledge’. Compare:
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Literary criticism titles really circling the drain. Just one illustrative example: Jerome McGann's 1968 study on Byron--"Fiery Dust." Great title. Jerome McGann's 2022 study on Byron--"Byron and the Poetics of Adversity." Terrible title.
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It’s pronounced Gunga DEEN
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Key Philosophers Discussed
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he had looked into the Indian philosophical tradition and investigated the extent certain mental concepts had a direct translation there or not. I also have some qualms with his treatment of Descartes though — believe it or not, Descartes barely uses the word ‘consciousness’!
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(Or specifically the Latin word ‘conscientia’) even if he does use it perhaps in a somewhat notably different way from the past. But suffice to say I don’t think Rorty was quite right about the role of conciousness in Descartes theory of the mental though still worth reading.
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To get a sharper sense of what I mean by formulating and confronting ‘problems’ an exemplar work engaging with past philosophers to do that is this paper by a past teacher of mine at UChicago, James Conant. centerforgermanphilosophy.uc…
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