REMEMBERING JOE STAMEY
(If you’re here to read about Joe Stamey, and don’t care much about how I came to know him, skip ahead to the horizontal rule.
Read moreON (NOT) READING KANT
Joe Stamey:
The many readers – rather nonreaders – of Kant who have claimed that the categorical imperative might allow the (moral) willing of a maxim that would subordinate everyone’s interests to mine, or to some concrete or particular group’s or individual’s, show that they are nonreaders.
A 'GOOD SOCIETY' SUPPORTS DUTIFUL ACTION
Mary Midgley:
Claire Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wiseman, presenting (with quotes from) Mary Midgley’s thesis outline: “Without a good society, ‘the sequence of events becomes entirely irregular’ and when an individual acts ‘the traditional result does not necessarily follow.
STORIES MAKE A LIFE
Rebecca Solnit:
“… stories are your life. We are our stories, stories that can be both prison and the crowbar to break open the door of that prison; we make stories to save ourselves or to trap ourselves or others, stories that lift us up or smash us against the stone wall of our own limits and fears.
THERE'S READING, AND THEN THERE'S READING
I’ve always thought of myself as a reader. When I was in grade school, one of my parents’ preferred punishments for my childhood misdeeds was confining me to my room for a specified period of time.
Read moreREADING PLAN: SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER 2023
I’ve settled on my reading list for the next three months. It’s a varied collection.
May Sarton and Juliette Huxley are two authors on this list that I knew virtually nothing about three months ago.