Philosophy prof, Providence College. Translator of *Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions* (Cambridge UP). I also write about Nietzsche and Vico
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In a recent conversation about AI in higher ed, someone said we were being forced to return to “medieval” methods of instruction and evaluation. It took a minute to realize he meant something bad rather than making careful distinctions and carrying on reasoned discourse.
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What a great night in Boston, another great audience, and The Rockwell is the perfect venue. The evening is pictured in this sketch (I forgot this gentleman’s name)😊
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An important thing we’re missing about the Pakistani child rape/slavery gangs is an understanding of how and why they formed: an etiology of evil. Some questions I want answers to:
- How much were rape gangs across different cities inspired by each other? Or did they mostly start independently? Either way, were they later coordinating/sharing tips/etc?
- What made Pakistanis so different from other immigrant groups? How big a role did Islam play? Was it important that many UK Pakistani immigrants were Mirpuri?
- Were there ever people inside Pakistani communities objecting? If so what form did that take? E.g. were they appealing to imams, or “community leaders”, or what?
- How much of the exploitation was driven by financial motivations (getting paid to let people rape the girls) as opposed to sexual motivations or ideological motivations?
There are probably a bunch more questions along these lines I’m not thinking of now. Please share them, or any answers you have. I think this is an important next step now that we can freely discuss the problem. (In the OODA framework, the world at large has observed - finally - and now we’re orienting.)
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Congratulations to Robert Miner on this edition, now in stock, which presents #Aquinas’s groundbreaking treatment of the passions in a rigorous but accessible translation, with an introduction that situates the work within a long tradition of thinking about the passions
Fascinating just how badly—and for how long—Jung wanted Thomas Aquinas to be the author of *Aurora Consurgens*
Unpopular opinion: A course called “Introduction of Philosophy” should introduce its students to the actual love of wisdom by whatever means necessary, without confinement to either canonical procedures or texts
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The way I cannot WAIT for vol. 1 of this to come out! Finally (for English speakers, at least), a translation of the Ovide moralisé!
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The recent vogue for 'actual' and 'actually' in every other sentence — is this best seen as a reminder that, on the priority of actuality to potentiality, Aristotle was (actually) right?
Something satisfying about putting my Tues-Thurs Nietzsche course into my Outlook calendar for the semester as a series—and pressing "recurrence." Hoping I can do this forever.
The clearest water: aristocratic yet humble. Though it speak with a gentle murmur, its bellow may yet shake the world. Simple yet articulate, with an angelic finish that will teach you plenty and leave you wanting more. But drink quickly, before it decomposes into straw
Or, pace Rorty, one could say with equal plausibility: "Only poets, N suspected, can truly appreciate amor fati and the necessity that pervades even the smallest event. The rest of us are doomed to blather about 'contingency' and other things at home in the asylum of ignorance."
Said hello to Thomas Aquinas on the Charles Bridge. He told me that he likes my translation well enough, but that he’d still prefer to be read in lingua Latina
