“Articulating the Law of Moral Recursion may have been the easy part. The question was whether it was full of shit.”
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Long before “lived experience” became a buzzword, Simone Weil went looking for hers.
With shout-outs to Lily Hu, Christoph Schuringa, John Rawls, and Jason Brennan.
“Over the coming centuries, it continued to be seen as an illness, an emotional weakness, a spiritual failing, and a tragic yet compelling sensitivity.”
“The Gothic exists in the same halfway place, both eroded and restored by the baring of its battered soul. It is elusive and erotic and a myth. One mustn’t deny mysteries their freedom.”
“We are all going to die. But some of us will die sooner than others. And the actions of other agents make a difference to when we die.”
“Teilhard de Chardin, a son of the same Church, saw evolution converging toward greater complexity and consciousness, a ‘noosphere’ thickening around the planet.”
“If corporations have certain human rights, why not robots and lakes, or elephants and fetuses? What happens when we give more entities — beyond human beings — rights and standing in the courtroom and the political sphere?”
“Carl Gustav Jung was a man who traveled through the depths of hell and who came back out again. He went to hell, and then he came out and went back to Switzerland.”
“Many of the central questions that would form the stock-in-trade for modern Kantian philosophy were already circulating among the young Tübingers.”
