Tomorrow, after a hiatus of more than a decade, I will again be teaching the ethics of Kant. Secretly, I was hoping that my ten years of extra wisdom would, this time around, make reading the Groundwork a doddle, but having revisited the text, it appears that hope was forlorn...
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Remember this? It remains to this day, my favourite ever comedy show.
Chillin'
My first daffodil of the season is here. 😁
Excellent subliminal messaging in my daily email from The Conversation this morning...
Excellent work
Odd, isn't it. I wonder if there's an unconscious feeling that using longer words makes you sound more intelligent? It might also explain why people say 'utilise' instead of 'use'.
Why do so many people say 'yourself' when they mean 'you', and 'myself' when they mean 'me'?
It infuriates myself!
Sounds interesting!
Hmm. I agree that it looks like some kind of equivocation is going on here, and maybe that's the source of the confusion. But I will admit that I'm not entirely sure!
But if you didn't expect it (as you concede), then doesn't that imply that you didn't expect the unexpected after all?
Maybe so. But even if we expect unexpected things in general, can we really say that, when they occur, they were unexpected?
Is it possible to expect the unexpected? 🤷♂️
Cold, grey and blustery in Scarborough this morning. Didn’t stop some people from braving the water though.
Caught someone sitting in my chair this afternoon...
Definitely!
Really sad to hear about John Virgo. A true legend of the sport and the undisputed master of the trickshot. RIP, JV.
I've never been much of a boxing fan, but if wig-wearing was made mandatory for every fight, I reckon I could get into it...
www.skysports.com/boxing/video...
Came across a nice little phrase from Dan Dennett on evolution:
"a process with no intelligent designer can create intelligent designers who can then design things that permit us to understand how a process with no intelligent designer can create intelligent designers who can then design things.”
Strange, isn't it. I wonder if there's any evidence that it works? I can't believe there is. It seems a bit mindless.
I've always thought (and this is what I encourage to my students) that the only surefire way of knowing you've understood something is if you can re-write it in your own words.
What, teaching them to vandalise library books?
F. H. Bradley would have been 180 years old today. Whenever I think of Bradley I think of Richard Wolheim's killer quip: "Obscurity came to him naturally, and it is hard to resist the suspicion that he also exploited it as a weapon in argument".
Excellent stuff. Bravo!
She lays eggs!
When I typed 'Maurice Merleau-Ponty' into my phone today (don't ask), it was autocorrected to 'Maurice Merlway-Spongy'. You know, having read some of the man's work, I'm inclined to think that Merlway-Spongy is a much more suitable name.
Just finished reading this. One of the most bizarre books I've ever read, but utterly brilliant and laugh-out-loud funny. If you've never read it, get it on your TBR list at once!
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I've been revisiting a classic this morning. The very final scene always gets me a little choked up.
