somebody's comment yesterday got me reading Kierkegaard's "Purity of Heart" essay and my fucking god i have not wanted to slap the shit out of a dead man so badly since the last time i read more than three words of Kant at once
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Isn't this objection addressed under Egocentric Service of the Good? whereby the righteous jerk off is still a failure to will one thing?pic.twitter.com/K7DoiE8LT6
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that looks like an attempt at addressing it
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I dig. I can see how the two might be connected as well. The question we might become a little clearer when you consider someone who pursues honor strictly for selfless reasons and not personal gain. Can such a person exists in our society?
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this person is either trivially possible in our society or impossible in any society someone pursuing honor for no visible personal gain is pursuing it to obtain rewards internal to themselves, and if they're wired so that works for them they're extremely rational to do so
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nah, i'm a coder who doesn't get to fuck with ML as much as i might like. technically AI was my major when i was at a brick-and-mortar college (interdisciplinary computer science/philosophy/psychology program) and i did build a dozen or so nets from Fausett for giggles
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Or where you have empathy and are avoiding the punishment you'll vicariously suffer if you allow other people to be hurt. I mean, that's what empathy does, and it's still generally considered a positive quality?
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That’s not what he meant: “Purity of heart is to will one thing” is a principle of consistency, not of purity. It means first: purity is impossible as we can’t know all our beliefs commit us to. Yet, we are bound to the transitivity of all we claim!
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