
miércoles, 29 de julio de 2009
Marvelman

miércoles, 24 de junio de 2009
TBPD
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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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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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miércoles, 27 de mayo de 2009
Realm of ends [Cita - VI]
In a fully realized realm of ends, people would think and act very differently from the way they do here and now. We cannot immediately transport ourselves into the realm of ends, but we must grope our way toward it, making the best of the necessity to adapt fundamental moral principles to the imperfect condition in which we find ourselves.Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics.
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domingo, 24 de mayo de 2009
El plan de Veidt

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jueves, 21 de mayo de 2009
Disolver
Ahora bien, por un congreso entendemos aquí únicamente una confederación arbitraria de diversos Estados, que en cualquier momento se puede disolver. (MS 6:351)
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sábado, 16 de mayo de 2009
We preexist

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martes, 5 de mayo de 2009
5th Day of May
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martes, 28 de abril de 2009
¿Censura?
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sábado, 11 de abril de 2009
De la lucha del principio bueno con el malo por el dominio sobre el hombre
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miércoles, 8 de abril de 2009
domingo, 5 de abril de 2009
Redención
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viernes, 13 de marzo de 2009
Who is John Galt?
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martes, 17 de febrero de 2009
Bob Dylan - The ***Complete*** Hard Rain Concert





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domingo, 8 de febrero de 2009
Immanuel Kant: Wrong for America
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miércoles, 4 de febrero de 2009
Cayo tiene nueva cama
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viernes, 2 de enero de 2009
La Razón habla - I
Uso la palabra razonable en un sentido práctico, esto es, que discurra sobre un tema moral.

La primera entrega de esta ya aclamada saga, contará con la última pronunciación política del excelente filósofo y pacifista, Bertrand Russell, de hace casi 39 años, justamente sobre un tema que se mantiene actual; hablo del lamentable conflicto de Israel y Palestina. Veamos.
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East. We are frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. [...] What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.
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viernes, 12 de diciembre de 2008
¡Grande Kant!
Para los que acusan a Kant de formal, de abstracto, de teórico, de no aplicable en la práctica, ahí les va:

Pero si se pregunta: ¿qué es propiamente la moralidad pura, en la que, como piedra de toque, se tiene que contrastar el contenido moral de cada acción?, tengo que confesar que sólo los filósofos pueden hacer dudosa la resolución de esta cuestión; pues en la razón humana común está decidida hace tiempo, y a la verdad, no por fórmulas universales abstractas, sino por el uso corriente, y, por decirlo así, como la diferencia entre la mano derecha y la izquierda.Crítica de la razón práctica.
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lunes, 8 de diciembre de 2008
Kant hacía kekes
Por cierto, la receta la pueden encontrar aquí. Hice caso a una de las sugerencias, y reemplazé media taza de aceite por media taza de puré de manzana.
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