miércoles, 24 de junio de 2009
TBPD
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Labels: Filosofía, Metablogueo
lunes, 22 de junio de 2009
Descubriendo The Replacements
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sábado, 20 de junio de 2009
The Beatles - Two Of Us
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Labels: Let It Be... Naked, Música, The Beatles, Youtube
The Killing Joke
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miércoles, 17 de junio de 2009
martes, 16 de junio de 2009
The Dark Knight Returns
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viernes, 12 de junio de 2009
¿Quieres ser Immanuel Kant?
I had the good fortune to know a philosopher, who was my teacher. He was in his best years, and possessed the cheerful vivacity of youth. . . . His open brow, formed for thought, was the seat of undisturbed serenity and joy; language freighted with thought flowed from his lips; wit and humour were at his command; and his instructive lecture was a rich entertainment. In the same spirit with which he investigated Leibnitz, Wolf, Baumgarten, Crusius, and Hume, and traced the laws of Newton, Kepler, and the scientists generally, he examined the writings of Rousseau then appearing, namely his "Emile" and his "Héloise." He placed the true estimate on every physical discovery which came to his notice, and always returned from other studies to an impartial scrutiny of nature and the moral worth of man. He drew the inspiration for his lectures from the history of men, of nations, and of nature, as well as from natural science, mathematics, and his own observations. He was not indifferent to anything worth knowing. No cabal, no sect, no advantage to himself, no ambition, had the least influence over him compared with the development and illustration of the truth. He encouraged, and obliged his hearers, to think for themselves; despotism was foreign to his mind. This man, whom I mention with the highest esteem and gratitude, is Immanuel Kant.
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Labels: Buena Onda, Filosofía, Immanuel Kant
David Coulthard en Lima
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Labels: Buena Onda, David Coulthard, Formula Uno
miércoles, 10 de junio de 2009
God Help the Girl - Funny Little Frog
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Labels: Belle and Sebastian, Música, Youtube
martes, 9 de junio de 2009
Los límites de cualquier teoría ética
This book has been about a certain kind of ethical theory – Kantian ethics. It has also been about ethics – about ethical issues, such as those about lying, sexuality, and economic justice. These two points of focus are closely related, but they should not be confused.It makes sense to have strong convictions about ethical issues – for instance, that it is always (or nearly always) wrong to falsify declarations or lie to oneself, or that the prevailing economic system or sexual mores are in need of radical reforms. But the same is not true of ethical theories.The function of an ethical theory is to help us examine and criticize our ethical convictions, sometimes to reach new ones, to defend these convictions, and to understand the rational basis of them. But our powers of reason are so fallible that we can never hope to reach certainty or confidence about this basis. Kantian ethics may be (my own conviction is that it certainly is) the best kind of theory human beings have devised as a background for their moral reflections. But the ground of its principal value, which we explored in Chapter 5, is vulnerable to doubt. In Chapter 7 we saw that Kantian ethics depends on the conviction that our will is free, but it admits that we do not understand how this freedom is possible, and that the very idea of it may be in principle incomprehensible to us.The study of ethical theory is nevertheless valuable to us as reflective moral agents, despite the fact that if pursued honestly and diligently, it will leave us in a state of hopeless perplexity about the foundations of morality from which there is no prospect of escape. Or rather – it is utterly indispensable to us as moral agents precisely because it is bound to condemn us to that state.There can be nothing more important to us in this brief flicker of life than whether we have acted as we should or have failed to do so (or as Kant would say: “in conformity to duty” or “contrary to duty”). Yet the ultimate basis of our judgments about this matter of supreme importance will always remain obscure and uncertain.This is the way I propose that Kantian ethics should now think about the contrast that Kant himself drew between “the starry heavens” (the prospect of which humbles us to insignificance) and “the moral law” through which we gain a sense of our sublime dignity (KpV 5:161–3). Kantian ethics no longer needs (if it ever did) the supernaturalism implied in Kant’s contrast, but in the contrast I am proposing in its place is also something that is earnest and uplifting yet at the same time frustrating, humiliating, frightening and comfortless. It is one of the tasks of philosophy to make us aware that neither religion nor science offer us any prospect of certainty or any consolation as we face the absurdity of the human condition.Our chief business in life is that our thought and conduct should live up to the dignity of rational nature. But our human condition has arisen, and is sustained, by the merest cosmic accident. It can never have any greater meaning than we, with our feeble and errant rational powers, are able to give it by acting as we ought, according to reason.
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Labels: Allen W. Wood, Areté, Buena Onda, Filosofía, Immanuel Kant
lunes, 8 de junio de 2009
Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
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jueves, 4 de junio de 2009
John Lennon - Imagine
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Labels: Buena Onda, Música, The Beatles, Youtube
miércoles, 3 de junio de 2009
El nuevo juego de Hideo Kojima
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Labels: Videojuegos
The Beatles - All You Need Is Love (1967)
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Labels: Álbum para bajar, Beatles' singles, Download, Música, The Beatles
Tres canciones de God Help the Girl (o porque empezar a prestarle atención a este proyecto)
When I heard that Stuart Murdoch (of Belle & Sebastian fame) was writing a musical film, I found the idea so sickeningly twee that I just about gave myself a hernia trying to stop wave after wave of vomit. Not to mention that I absolutely, totally, utterly hate, hate, hate musicals (the musical episode of Buffy… being the only exception).
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Labels: Belle and Sebastian, Canciones colgadas, Música
martes, 2 de junio de 2009
The Beatles: Rock Band - Screens
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Labels: Rock Band, The Beatles, Videojuegos
The Beatles: Rock Band - La presentación del juego
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Labels: Necedad, Rock Band, The Beatles, Videojuegos
lunes, 1 de junio de 2009
The Beatles: Rock Band - El primer trailer
Lleno de ácido.
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Labels: Rock Band, The Beatles, Videojuegos