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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it's easy to see how hugely influential this guy was on modern ethics from the ivory tower right down to street level and how much that has to do with modern ethics being a giant trash fire
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hahahaha i think there's some kierkegaard you'd like, none of it's his mainstream stuff of course (i have read exactly 0 of his "must-read" books)https://twitter.com/ckhonson/status/735871911507300352 …
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you'd probably like The Concept of Irony, basically 19th century progenitor of Alinsky actually okay maybe you'd hate it
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siiiiiiiigh 'from:ckhonson kierkegaard' had a ton of good shit that got mysteriously de-indexed. go figure. whatever. he's my spirit philosopher and i'm sticking to it he invented so many things, like twitter bots fake-fighting with each other and realizing Hegel was a dipshit
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once you figure out everything you need to know about aesthetics / ethics, the only "actually good" kierkegaard are his spiritual writings, but you have to drink the christian koolaid first to appreciate it probably *shrug*
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yeah, the particular ingredient of the christian koolaid where we pretend that a reward function isn't a reward function if it detects sufficiently intangible criteria is what's getting on my tits here
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i'm actually not a proselytizer, It's Okay To Not Like Things fwiw your nose can smell quantum particles i'm just a known unknown unknowable, man.
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he's doing a very good job of what he's doing, i'm sure, i probably just don't like it because what he's doing is continental philosophy designed to help people live well in a worldview, whereas i want to understand how those work, which you don't get from the inside of them
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seems 100% fair. i’m a humble midwestern farmer son, that shit’s several paygrades above me haha. i just pick a lifestyle off the shelf and follow like a dog.
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absolutely the way to go if it works for you it's messy backstage
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