Tag: definitions

• Does Beauty live with Kindness?

  I don’t know how many times I’ve written about beauty, but it continues to intrigue me. Not so much about what it is -its constituent parts, its definitions, or even its historical and sociological roots- but more its ability to morph -mutate, if you will- from something that is to something that isn’t. How, in […]

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  May 13, 2020

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  Adam Smith, Aeon.co, Beauty, Cardiff University, definitions, Edmund Burke, Koine Greek, language, morality, Panos Paris, philosophy, Stendhal

• Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

  What have we done? Have we become so transfixed with definitions –differences– we have forgotten where we started? Where we want to go? Has the clarity for which we strived, opacified as it cooled? Sometimes the more encompassing the definition, the less useful it becomes. I suppose that coming from the putative dark side -that […]

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  February 26, 2020

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  Aeon.co, analytic feminism, continental feminism, definitions, emancipation, Feminism, Georgia Warnke, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Judith Butler, LGBTQIA, MIT, oppression, resignification, Sally Haslanger, Shakespeare, Simone de Beauvoir, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, University of California

• Life’s Like That

  Why is Life so hard to define? When I was in school, it was easy –as mentioned in a BBC article on the topic: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170101-there-are-over-100-definitions-for-life-and-all-are-wrong -Life was MRS GREN (Metabolism, Reproduction, Sensitivity, Growth, Respiration, Excretion, and Nutrition). That’s all you needed for the exam –although I’m glad they never asked for an explanation of Sensitivity. […]

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  May 31, 2017

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  BBC news, definition of life, definitions, genetic malfeasance, lawyer, Life, obfuscation, Obstetrician/Gynaecolgist, older mother, philosophy, Proust Phenomenon, stories