Adam Robbert
@AE_Robbert
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Askēsis | Attention is an art form | Philosophy as a way of life | Building @theorosproject | Founded @TheSideViewCo | Substack: https://t.co/ezQigN5ewR
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Joined November 2011
A Publication Announcement: After several months of quiet work — writing, revising, and refining — I’m happy to share that I’ve just published a new essay collection titled Practice in Still Life: Fragments, Essays, and Lectures. A study of saints, mystics, monastics, and
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I sometimes give up on thinking about the Myth of the Given, but it seems all roads lead back there, anyway.
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Process post: The text at hand in the center. Underneath it, detailed annotations on the large sheets. To the right, my notes for why this matters and what it needs to become. To the left, Greek dictionary (because I’m illiterate). I’ve come to think 90% of writing is prep work
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The two philosophical options today are, apparently, Judith Butler and Effective Altruism. In this essay, I will . . .
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Unfortunately, I'm wading back into disenchantment discourse, which I find both boring (disenchanted) and important (enchanted).
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I don’t mean this in a self-deprecating way at all, but I just read through two chapters I’m working on, and I had a fairly objective feeling that, yes, I’m producing something high-quality here. I then had to read a dozen or so pages from Taylor’s A Secular Age and came back to
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Look, I don’t much care for Judith Butler, either, but since someone writes this same piece every 18 months or so, we should at least encourage the writer to pick different bad quotes.
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An addendum to this post, thinking about Heidegger’s differing readings of Plato: If we translate the passages at 509b in the Republic as Eric Perl does, then we come closer to supporting Mark A. Ralkowski’s reading of the late Heidegger as affirming a kind of phenomenological
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An addendum to this post, thinking about Heidegger’s differing readings of Plato: If we translate the passages at 509b in the Republic as Eric Perl does, then we come closer to supporting Mark A. Ralkowski’s reading of the late Heidegger as affirming a kind of phenomenological
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Still want to find a time to record a chat with @AE_Robbert about the excellent and memory-related Practice in Still Life. This latest essay is a nice continuation. My worry is that many can't practice openness to being enough, probably due to implicit memory training.
I wrote about Plato’s much commented upon passage in the Republic, where he has Socrates say the Good is epekeina tēs ousias. That last term is translated variously as beyond “being,” beyond “essence,” or beyond “reality.” What do these different understandings mean for
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I wrote about Plato’s much commented upon passage in the Republic, where he has Socrates say the Good is epekeina tēs ousias. That last term is translated variously as beyond “being,” beyond “essence,” or beyond “reality.” What do these different understandings mean for
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I wrote about Plato’s much commented upon passage in the Republic, where he has Socrates say the Good is epekeina tēs ousias. That last term is translated variously as beyond “being,” beyond “essence,” or beyond “reality.” What do these different understandings mean for
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The body is the prison of the soul. The soul is the prison of the body. Discuss.
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I’ve been cataloguing different senses of “inner” (or esoteric) and “outer” (or exoteric) readings in different interpretations of Plato’s philosophy. A few examples: Tübingen School: The “inner” refers to the unwritten doctrines of the Old Academy, namely, the affirmation of
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The free will deniers have submitted to a particular kind of acedia, I think. Spellbound creatures.
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People still cite this experiment to me in discussions of free will. You have free will. Please carry on.
The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in initiating action, the hard problem, and what it'd take for neuroscience to truly
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“The truth of nihilism means truth is more fundamental than nihilism, and hence nihilism cannot be true. The truth of nihilism is its untruth.” “To see the untruth of truth one must see by the light of truth, and hence there is something more always than untruth.” — William
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