Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I find the issue rather puzzling. It’s certainly true that personal tragedy seems to fill up all emotional space, and interferes with the ability to experience art in impersonal terms. But isn’t the experience …

In reply to Roderick T. Long. My swim today was marred by the realization (in the middle of the swim) that I had misspelled “Euripides.” LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. That doesn’t seem like a humungous error. LikeLike

What renders at-will employment toxic is the institutional structure, which we left-libertarians argue is the result not of the market but of interference with the market. Y’know, Kevin Carson und so weiter. LikeLike

I observe with sadness that the word “homogenous” passed editorial scrutiny. LikeLike

I reckon one’s own personal tragedies can interfere with the ability to experience tragic art in suitably impersonalized terms. I would bet that the 18th-century sentimentalists discuss this somewhere. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Amen, brother. And as Aristotle pointed out: the nature and value of philosophy is itself a philosophical issue, and so one cannot enter into an inquiry on the topic without thereby engaging in philosophy — so arguing …