@tinyroofnail Oh wow, just looked at images! I will put it on my list for next NYC visit. I've been doing a little bingo game of Manhattan masses every time I'm there.
@tinyroofnail Oh wow, just looked at images! I will put it on my list for next NYC visit. I've been doing a little bingo game of Manhattan masses every time I'm there.
@markstoneman Oh, I know — it was too warm the last several years. So this is, like, throwback to old winter. And I can't really complain. It's what our microclimate needs, etc. Hence: melodrama.
@jordanellishall Adding these to the queue. Thank you! I understand only half too; fellow travelers.
@jordanellishall (sorry, you knew that DRA was in my head already!)
@jordanellishall I'm in that book group! And I suspect this current revisitation of AM — as one way to get to foundationalist moral realism — falls into a regular cyclical attempt to counter the old conundrum of existential relativism and despair. Maybe only felt as urgent during times of acute turmoil? I got here by chasing down a very specific intellectual bottleneck starting several years ago, but it turns out to sorta track along with, yes, a vibe. I'm also reading AM's Dependent Rational Animals, though, and it's equally challenging, not least to the vibe's noxious branches of "moral foundations = political certainty." As you say, the community part is so key for AM, and it's really when we take seriously our animality and multiple vulnerabilities that see how much the virtues precede intellectual abstractions... My head is full after Myles's group last night.
@sim0ne Yes indeed — and MacIntyre is big on this: that virtues like humility are actually more important to practical reason than abstract idea-parsing (as though one could parse in isolation anyway!).
@cjhubbs Right? Lands well just now.
@tinyroofnail Ha, yeah, it's true. Also got halfway through the Goldberg/Fukuyama convo today walking to work. Good substantive convo, as advertised. Thanks.
@joshuapsteele Enjoy!
@tinyroofnail Glad for this pointer. Will add it to my queue. I thought Freddie DeBoer's recent naming of a similar phenomenon — "I'm right and here are my reasons, which should be sufficient as my commentary contribution" — was right on.
@mwerickson Looks great! Adding to my list.
@jonah <3
@jabel Right! I feel like I'm missing this as a big hole in my Gen X references.
@wcaleb need that
@ayjay I have that book in my bag as my commute read!
@jabel I've never seen it! Making me curious.
@ReaderJohn Oh, nice!
@JohnPhilpin Right — sorry, of course. I'm assuming that we're all well aware that the situation is dire.
@JohnPhilpin Yeah—though I did hear Goldsmith say recently that the legal strategies employed are subpar, gonna come back to bite them… so, we wait?
@JohnPhilpin This newsletter offers commentary on executive branch powers and the modern presidential model generally, so I assume lots of it will discuss the various court cases too. Two great experts.
@jonah Oh! My heart sings.
@spgreenhalgh Ah, yes, I see. Look forward to following along.
@spgreenhalgh Thanks for posting! I read Ellul to be saying that debating ends (except means-as-ends) has itself disappeared from much public discourse — on tech or anything else. So, not an affirmation of a universal theory so much as a call to recovered ends AND means for all serious cultural matters?
@wcaleb Nice!
@wcaleb Isn't it SO TRUE. They catch so many good things. Incredibly reassuring to be in good hands at the end when you can't see it anymore. (And congrats on getting to the end again!)