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Originally posted in September 2023 on substack.com. Most notes and quotes from or for Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 9780701139988 (No idea what that book is look at this Review article by Gillian Dooley). In mathematics classes they often want you to show your working. I once did a exam as part of…

No/true! — it's not nothing all the way down either. (I started my reading journey with From selfing in worlding to sovereignty. This is my finished up reader’s report.) reading plato in a martian chasm Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher who read Plato with a post-Wittgenstein lens, holding a distrust of recent (post-)structuralist temple-smashing efforts. Though this…

Using use bing chat LLM circa 2023-08-29. Reposted from Substack.com Iris Murdoch and Ursula le Guin having breakfast while sitting under the net where the word for world is forest © 2023 meika loofs samorzewski Searching for: Ursula le Guin birth and death dates Searching for: Ursula le Guin birth and death dates Searching for: Iris Murdoch birth and death dates Searching for: Iris Murdoch…

I’ve been reading someone else’s copy of Iris Murdochs’ Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 9780701139988 (article) over the last few weeks. By “someone else’s copy” I mean it has pencilled marginalia like Astute Observation and as I have met the previous owner, these words read themselves aloud in his voice. It’s been slow going, not…

Wikipedia says The Shepherd of Hermas, or the Good Shepherd, 3rd century, Catacombs of Rome. But the devotee bringing a lamb to sacrifice is common across many local “pagan” practices in the Mediterranean. A couple of posts ago (Inappropriation) I introduced the work that led to an awkward conversation. This post is just to add that I’ve finished Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion…

I've been cataloguing many many sex education works, from the explicitly clinical to the psychologically instructive, and beyond into messed-up socio-econo-polio-anthro-opinio… —culture wars are not new. The period ranges from the 1920s and earlier, but peak in the 1970s, with titles like Naked Yoga, with not a yoga mat in sight, mind you. The horror. One of so many books…