Things that are unfinished are like abandoned things in a number of respects; they accumulate, and occupy spaces that could be free for other things; they can also become the house for an entire ecology of thoughts to grow –and self-development to occur– that might not be possible otherwise. They are unlike abandoned things insofar as there is still living intention to finish them, and insofar as they have not grown into disrepair.
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Identity Politics: Intersectionality
Here, a brief post concerning a TED talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality.
I just delivered a paper at a conference here in Boston that took up all of the time I wasn’t devoting to my family or to my schooling, so I’ve been negligent with getting parts three & four of the “Impact vs. Intent” series out. In the meanwhile, something about intersectionality.
Justice and Hurting People
Something very short; a plug for a Sententiae Antiquae post. Continue reading
The New Year, and Previous Years
It is important to make plans, because while novelties drive history (there are genuinely new things in the world all the time — we are not necessarily caged by the past, but are always open to the future), those novelties will spring up with weed-like haphazardness if we don’t direct them. So far as I can tell, I didn’t make a New Year’s plan or commitments last year on Into the Clarities. Continue reading
Excerpt #24 — Alasdair MacIntyre on The Nothingness of The Modern Self
Riffing off of the last excerpt post by David Bentley Hart, it seemed appropriate to list here a similarly themed excerpt from Alasdair MacIntyre about the modern self, and modern freedom.
Since I am nearing the end of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue, I thought to list just one passage from it here, and settled on this one because of its similarity to that excerpt.
