The Kantian Is Not Permitted By Her Own Version Of Morality To Do Much Mocking Back, But Other Humeans
The Kantian is not permitted by her own version of morality to do much mocking back, but other Humeans may generously step in to do the job of retorsio iocosa for them. For the true Humean must somehow learn to mock gently.
Annette Baier (1993)
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I [Searle] once asked him [J.L. Austin] “How soon can we hope that your William James lectures will be published?” thus giving him an opening I should never have done. He responded immediately, “You can hope it will be published any time you like.”
John R. Searle
"...a corrected version of history helps the people better understand themselves. Americans, Mexicans, the fusion of the two, in addition to people of the world, would recognize a better sense of their true identity & culture. The exploration of such history can perhaps allow for analysis of current rates of depression, crime/incarceration, and socioeconomic status(es). If we, the people, want to understand ourselves, we need to know the truth".
The following is a summary & analysis of Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review article, “Law of the Noose: A History of Latino Lynching” Richard Delgado.
SUMMARY
Delgado attempts to shed light on a largely unknown history of Latinos, particularly Mexican-Americans in the Southwest...
An enthusiasm for logic and number might overwhelm the ability to make good judgements, and form clear arguments. Today ‘economic’ argument prevails everywhere over political or ethical argument, but the sense of ‘economy’ this implies is a remarkably attenuated and impoverished one: it’s meaning has been cheapened.
Keith Tribe, The Economy of the Word (via oupacademic)
Para motivar: Klimt y un beso
They teach us to prey forgiveness But I won"t swallow what they feed us
La primera persona en dibujar una cadena alimenticia fue Pieter Bruegel, el viejo… su sorprendente dibujo [“The big fisch eat the small ones”] fue hecho en 1556. Incluye lo que bien podría ser un temprano mensaje ecologista mostrando un análisis de la comida (aparentemente con un largo cuchillo de pan) y lo que puede ser un temprano biólogo aplicado…parcialmente transformado en un pez por absorber a un pez que también ha comido a un pez… Elton, Charles, The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants, v. p. 126.
El punto de vista de un águila, casi...
La provocación del performance!
Calvin and Hobbes
That's the question...
It’s important to walk There are friends yet to meet My dog says “Forget about it!” My dog says “Let’s run in the woods”
