Tag: Immanuel Kant

• Let shame say what it will

  Call me overly sensitive, but I don’t like to be shamed. There, I’ve said it. I suspect it is because shaming causes me to think less of myself: to feel humiliated, demeaned. And yet, there is another side to humiliation that seems to hide in the shadows: the feeling of humility – ‘This amounts not…

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  August 12, 2020

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  appraisal respect, ethics, exemplary individuals, humiliation, humility, Immanuel Kant, Louise Chapman, moral education, moral hydraulics, Pembroke College, shame, shaming, Sigmund Freud, social media, sublimation, University of Cambridge

• A Predilection for Extinction?

    There appears to be a lot of concern about extinctions nowadays -everything from spotted owls to indigenous languages pepper the list. Things around us that we took for granted seem to be disappearing before we even get to know or appreciate them. One has to wonder whether this is accompanied by furtive, yet anxious,…

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  June 24, 2020

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  Anthropocene, Arthur Lovejoy, Candide, demography, existence, extinction, Imm, Immanuel Kant, Leibniz, Oxford University, Principle of Plenitude, the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Moynihan, Voltaire

• Sapere audi

  Sapere audi – ‘Dare to know’, as the Roman poet Horace wrote. It was later taken up by famous Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, and it seemed like a suitable rallying cry as I negotiated the years that led from youth to, well, Age. Who could argue that ignorance is preferable to knowledge? That understanding something,…

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  April 8, 2020

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  Daniel Callcut, habituation, Horace, imagination, Immanuel Kant, internet, knowledge, Laura Mulvey, morals, pornography, the unthinkables, virtue

• Love, which alters when it alteration finds

  I’m not certain I understand why, but I am being led to believe that Love can be described mathematically using Bayesian Probability Theory… Okay, as a start, I have no idea what subscribing to Bayesian probability theory might entail, except maybe a club membership, and a considerably manipulated personal profile to attract some interest. But,…

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  August 14, 2019

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  Bayesian Probability Theory, Categorical Imperative, conditional love, credences, Immanuel Kant, love, metaphors, philosophy, rational, Regulative principle of worship, relationships, Shakespeare, Suki Finn, Thomas Bayes, unconditional love, University of Southampton, Wikipedia

• To wear an undeserved dignity

    Lately, I’ve been worried about dignity -not my own, you understand, although I’m sure that could use a little work. I’m more concerned that what I assumed was an inherent quality possessed -if not always demonstrated- by us all, may not be as innate as I thought. An essay in the online publication Aeon,…

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  June 11, 2019

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  Antigone, dignity, ethical dignity, ethics, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, hypocrisy, Immanuel Kant, meaning, moral dignity, moralized connotation, Remy Debes, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Troilus and Cressida, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, University of Memphis, words