Thomas Jockin
@ThomasJockin
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Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Mt. St. Mary’s University. Fellow at Halkyon Thinkers Guild. Founder of TypeThursday. Devotee of the Beautiful. ﷽
Emmitsburg, MD
Joined April 2009
Combining virtue ethics with Lacan has been a big project of mine. Here's a little taste to how I've been thinking about it https://t.co/nRowhVirTK
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Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become
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First you're attracted to one beautiful body, then you come to appreciate all beautiful bodies, then you see that the beauty of the soul outweighs that of the body, and then finally you realize that what you were really attracted to was the Form of Beauty all along.
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Forgiveness becomes possible (without unconscious resentment) once you truly understand that the loss itself can never be repaid or reconciled. In other words, Transverse the fantasy.
You can’t will yourself to forgive. There’s no tool or exercise. It doesn’t happen because someone, including a therapist, says you should. That leads only to denial & unconscious resentment Forgiveness is never a legitimate therapy goal. It may come about—but it can’t be a goal
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See my course on virtue and health from Halkyon Guild:
You are just talking about Virtue. There's no need to even make this women/men distinction. Any time we give some 'attribute' , it always comes down to virtue, and virtue is always related to health, because it is the dominant analogy Aristotle ascribes to it.
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Choice and freedom are not the same thing.
Dear compatibilist friends, I have a question for you: Suppose it turns out that quantum randomness in my brain makes it 50/50 whether I choose tea or coffee (which could be the case if the brain is a classically chaotic system). Is that still compatible with my choosing, say,
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Transversing the Good is my Lacanian version of transversing the fantasy
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Insulation nor separation isn’t the point. The Beautiful is the cause of the Good. (Plato, G Hippias 297b) To claim that beauty passes over to goodness gets you entrapped in an ideology map + ironically defeats triune being!
@javisfunny Beauty cannot be separated from Goodness, and in fact can only pass over into it. Your critique does remind me of @johnmilbank3’s critique of Balthasar in The Suspended Middle, but I disagree with you guys, I find the idea of a Beauty insulated from the Good to be quite suspect
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Memory is found in the heart
Leading theories of memory describe it as being stored in the brain—similarly to the way computers store memory. But this assumption relies on materialist assumptions and bypasses the hard problem of consciousness. Memory is not stored in space but in time
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Magnificent teaching on display
Extraordinary video. Too many extraordinary things to count. Most won't understand
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If philosophy isn’t a spiritual exercise for you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Digital structures first captured the lust of men with fantasy. Now these structures capture the curiosity of men with fiscal speculation.
New newsletter: THE MONKS IN THE CASINO In the last few decades, the pro-social life script for many young people—date, marry, buy a house, have a kid—has become more expensive. Meanwhile, the anti-social life script—e.g., posting, porn, parlays—has become easier, cheaper,
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Type Thursday PHX — Thurs., Nov. 20 at Dialog We’re back for a night of type, critique, and community. Join us as we share in-progress work, trade honest feedback, and leave aligned and inspired. RSVP at Eventbrite (Link in Bio) #TypeThursdayPhoenix #TTPHX #TypeThursday
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We used to look to stars. Now we look to speculative algorithms. New essay on what that means for design + desire → https://t.co/pQ93heXJyI
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Indeed! See my latest substack on Aristotle’s common sense found in the heart
Looking for the mind inside the brain is like looking for flight inside the wings of a sparrow or song in the syrinx of a nightingale.
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New Substack: From Renaissance perspective to Spotify AI bands, I trace how the subjectivity of geometry informs a nostalgic desire for an immersive place. https://t.co/DQq7ivKwMn
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This image shows three data storage facilities infinitely more capable and beautiful and healthy than AI data centres.
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You know, I try to be fairly humble about it — but starting the first ever open source font foundry in @theleagueof fundamentally changed a *lot* of how type exists now on the web. I am deeply, deeply proud of what I have done in that space.
Reply with a mini design movement you accidentally started
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Probable Cause O.G. Rose We are already “toward” atomization in having our motivations bound to us [...] But where “the two invisible hands” were united say in Smith’s day, the necessity of interacting with others kept “the excesses of individuation” from getting out of hand...
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