Blog Archive
-
▼
2018
(365)
-
▼
March
(31)
- Ongoing the succession of interrelated event...
- It is always here complete, unstained and im...
- Nobody starts out saying 'I am', typically i...
- What is immediately scandalous about Rimbaud...
- Another version of it is Rimbaud's 'Je est u...
- Does otherness resolve into sameness? The se...
- If you pick a word, any word, your own name ...
- You go on as if all there is is this conting...
- In desire you vividly picture the scene of ...
- There is no hard problem of consciousness. T...
- Life is a text, it proceeds by contrasts. Ev...
- It ought to be clear that imagination is no...
- Imagine finding yourself on the verge of d...
- The loamy clay of sleep seals your eyes, you...
- Discovering a new truth causes everything yo...
- Knowledge is seeing the general principles t...
- Panpsychist, quantum based, pictures of real...
- Just as you still feel the reverberations of...
- A metaphysics consisting of a chain of bein...
- There is no symmetry between (physical) ple...
- The idea of a thing or state does not entail...
- Consciousness as we know it is associated wi...
- The other is at its base a social experience...
- You return the favour to someone who has ass...
- Experience is something like a memorandum, ...
- In physical reality the boundary that is you...
- Taking the waking state, dream and deep slee...
- Experience as you know it is both perspecti...
- Thinking, feeling, willing, perceiving, the...
- To say that suffering is resistance is only ...
- It is inadequately described as either an em...
-
▼
March
(31)
Thursday, 8 March 2018
You return the favour to someone who has assisted you, and your generosity is greater the more unrelated to you your helper is - at least that is what you do if you are as intuitively rational as a Norway rat. If you are human you might also consider being the first to act, to reward proleptically, perhaps on the basis of an imagined future favour, and you might make the inverse relationship between degree of relatedness and offered reward or self-sacrifice, even more salient, even less calculated, than the rat - you find yourself, in short, loving your enemy. A naturally politic but somewhat counter-intuitive impulse is taken to be evidence of beauty of soul, of a spirituality transcending mere rattish egoism. But such apparent egoism is an invention for the sake of authentic egoism. The character you are is a dispostional construction out of such imaginary scenarios - you get to feel nice things towards him, you learn the usefulness of applied dreaming and other kinds of literature.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.