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| • Mar 16: “'Morality’s for suckers,“ Trump might say. • Mar 31: after Arrival • April 5: Heideger was not “mystical” • April 6: Heideger beyond the Holocaust |
sense of this site, as of... march 2025 all conceptual venturing To cell phone readers: Sorry. |
| April 12 |
| The month has been productive here, but more productive offline, nearing completion of an agenda which I’ve been developing for a long while. All of the discussions linked above were sidetrips occasioned by happenstances, unre- lated to my main project. I want to file away all of that soon, and go a new way, a very long way, made of elemental discussions which will accumulate into large scale ventures which the elements are designed to serve. April 6 Today’s posting title abbreviates the long actual title: “after the onto-theo-logical constitution of the Holocaust.” April 5 Today’s Heideggerian discussion substantially revises my long April 2 responses to a Heidegger forum posting about a forthcoming book. I’m also quoting from the editor’s reply to me. I want to stop posting about Heidegger for a while. But also, when specific opportunity happens, I want to set up good context for later reference. March 31 My Heideggerian discussion today responds to an online forum posting, but without uneeded reference to the posting. March 29 Though I’m working diligently, as far from current events as I can, avoiding Trumpism isn’t easy inasmuch as I want to stay somewhat in touch with daily news that matters. So, like controlling a bad dream by catching it in articulation, thus deporting it from attention, I deport Trumpism. Now back to work. Sorry I don’t have a pithy conceptual update to share this week. Coming soon. March 20 What’s the use of philosophy? I have the answer!—at X (screen shot there), after Philip Kitcher. I would argue that the humanities (U. of Penn. project) make genuine demo- cracy possible, though I see conceptual modeling differently than the U. of Penn. project. March 16 My extended cynicism against Bozo turns into bibliophilic hope for “moral” thinking in conceptions of educational excellence—though “moral,” to me, is just ethical pragmatism treated as statutory norm. My discussion leads into a sequenced sense of moral conceptuality, a specific humanity (relative to themes there—points of light—for constellating some leading minds) which can credibly ground a post-naturalistic sense of evolu- tionary ethics. Philosophy can pragmatically serve educational excellence, which can serve progressive practice. March 14 I’m working steadily, but openness to emergent themes goes where it appeals. I may have more to share next week or not. I hope to get closure on new developmental work this weekend. |
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next check-in: April 26 |
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