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Monthly Archives: January 2012

On the Bifurcation in Question

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

One’s direction in life is often altered by embarrassingly extra-curricular factors. For instance, one takes a weekend to fly across the country for a friend’s wedding, then one gets the stomach flu on the flight home, wishes one were dead for the next week or so, and contends with hallucinations and noon dreams about the [...]

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Personal Update

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Flying to the southwestern US tomorrow for a friend’s wedding. On the way back, in order to arrive home in time to attend my teaching seminar, I’m flying my first red eye special: 11pm-6am. So there will be no posts, most likely for the next few hectic days. I’ll be taking the collected works of [...]

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…one of the things we ought to have learned from the history of moral philosophy…

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Twentieth-century moral philosophers have sometimes appealed to their and our intuitions, but one of the things that we ought to have learned from the history of moral philosophy is that the introduction of the ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument. From: After Virture [...]

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The key to productivity

Sunday, January 15, 2012

The conjunction of a new semester and a new year always instigates a frenzy of productivity experimentation in me. I make lists, focus research goals, reinvigorate exercise plans, examine new recipes, rearrange furniture, discard unwanted books, print out calendars, attempt to magically reorient the earth so that a bit more sun comes in the window [...]

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Kierkegaard’s Early Polemical Writings: “Another Defense of Woman’s Great Abilities”

Saturday, January 14, 2012

[The following post is part of a series on the complete works of Søren Kierkegaard.] The very first thing Kierkegaard ever published was an attempt at satirical one-upmanship. The New Yorker (or perhaps the Paris Review) of Copenhagen, in the eyes of aspiring young writers, was the Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post. You wanted to get published there because that [...]

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How I propose to ‘do’ Kierkegaard

Friday, January 13, 2012

I am about to embark on writing about each and every book published in the Hongs’ Princeton translation of the works of Kierkegaard. The occasion for this enterprise is that I’m taking a class on several of K.’s books this semester and decided to make a completist project of it; also, that I’m trying to [...]

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…the fundamental task of thought becomes one of thinking this common condition…

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

… philosophical and theological discourses belong to something that, while expressed by each of them, is prior to them. They share, in other words, a common condition. Accordingly, the fundamental task of thought becomes one of thinking this common condition–or, more precisely, of thinking the commonality as it is differentially expressed by philosophy and theological [...]

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