Rilke, 1908: Du mußt dein Leben ändern.
Wittgenstein, 1937: Daß das Leben problematisch ist, heißst, daß Dein Leben nicht in die Form des Lebens paßt. Du mußt dann Dein Leben verändern, und paßt es in die Form, dann verschwindet das Problematische.
Rilke, 1908: Du mußt dein Leben ändern.
Wittgenstein, 1937: Daß das Leben problematisch ist, heißst, daß Dein Leben nicht in die Form des Lebens paßt. Du mußt dann Dein Leben verändern, und paßt es in die Form, dann verschwindet das Problematische.
“There’s no going back”—the refrain of every libertarian the day after the day after a bad law goes into effect. Thought, political and otherwise, is reduced to the tiniest of time frames instead of decades and centuries. Change becomes impossible, excerpt in a forward march, where “forward” aligns with ever-relaxing restrictions that, once relaxed, can never be undone; whereas temporary “backward” setbacks can always be undone, usually quite quickly, even against popular majorities.
The sheer nerdiness of the 1999 Spurs and their beloved StarCraft LAN parties is a wonder to behold.
The “amoral center” is spot-on: sharp analysis by Douthat.
“Your search — how can i eliminate ai from my google searches? -ai — did not match any documents.”
You don’t say.
I wrote about the San Antonio Spurs' magical run this season, and all the good news and happy lessons (not bad ones!) to take away from it.
That last point, about “religious” or otherwise non-secular philosophers not counting even though they are numerous, for the reason that some personal conviction or seemingly countercultural belief invalidates their views, also appears in biblical scholarship. The “majority” or “consensus” or “established” position on Pauline authorship of, e.g., 2 Thessalonians or Colossians is none of those things, except by fiat of a select few. But those who would or do dissent are made not to count, et voila, a scholarly consensus!
Douthat is right in his response to Yglesias; he might have added, too, that “few philosophers” is one of those academic tricks whereby all the members of the guild who would upset an elite consensus are excluded from the set by virtue of either their perceived religiosity (thus they don’t count) or their perceived marginal views (ditto)—hence, a perfectly circular “consensus” achieved solely through the explicit operation of ruling out dissenters on principle, the principle being that they dissent from the consensus, which consensus is arrived at only (again) through not allowing those who disagree to count.
The doctor himself.
Inside the Church of Saint Irenaeus in Lyon.
The magi.
A liturgical clock.
Lyon.
Illum oportet crescere, me autem minui.
