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Zohar Atkins
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Zohar Atkins
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Founder @joinlightning Torah @ Etzhasadeh.substack.com Philosophy @ Whatiscalledthinking.substack.com
Replying to @gregorykennedy“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” - Keats- Reading is networking with ghosts. Writing is networking with descendants.
- Leon Kass's life changed when he observed a chasm between intellectual virtue and moral virtue.
- My friend offers a thoughtful critique of my book Language but undermines his case by using words.My friend & Harvard colleague Howard Gardner, offers a thoughtful critique of my book Rationality -- but undermines his case, as all skeptics of rationality must do, by using rationality to make it. howardgardner.com/howards-blog/r…
- What are the best conditions for philosophy? Aristotle: You can’t philosophize unless you’re at leisure. Heidegger: You can’t philosophize unless you’re in crisis.
- In what way are human beings equal? Genesis: We’re all in the divine image. Aristotle: We all desire to know. Augustine: We’re all sinful. Luther: We’re all conscientious. Hobbes: We all fear death. Rousseau: We’re all good. Hayek: We’re all wrong.
- My philosophy mega threads: Martin Heidegger x.com/ZoharAtkins/st… Walter Benjamin x.com/ZoharAtkins/st… Leo Strauss x.com/ZoharAtkins/st… Hannah Arendt x.com/ZoharAtkins/st… Ludwig Wittgenstein x.com/ZoharAtkins/st… Theodor AdornoAdorno would recoil at being subjected to a @threadapalooza as it turns him into a commodity, his thought into a kind of brand or currency. Still, his ideas are timely & influential; if you want to understand today's left, internecine conflicts & culture wars, he's a touchstone.
- All is Thales: Water Heraclitus: Flux Buddha: Suffering Ecclesiastes: Vanity Parmenides: One Plotinus: Divine Descartes: Extension Spinoza: Nature Hegel: Mind Nietzsche: Recurrence Schelling: Incomplete Kierkegaard: Broken Heidegger: Thrown Derrida: Signs Wittgenstein: Games
- My life has been enriched by joyful learning. Few things give me greater joy than sharing my love of learning with others. Which is why today is a momentous day. With gratitude to my Creator, Source of Life, for allowing me to reach this day, I'm announcing that we at
- IMO, Fukuyama is one of the greatest living thinkers of our time. He understood that profit maximizing alone would never satisfy us and that identity politics is inevitable—long before it was cool to talk about “identity”"The End of History" was probably the most remarkably wrong political book of all time.
- Replying to @PlinzMarx didn’t realize there would be a large middle class that would not want to revolt. His hypothesis is premised on a dualistic conflict between haves and have nots. But middle class are at once haves and have nots. Though media intensifies the sense that they are have nots.
- Philosophy is: Socrates: Admitting Ignorance Aristotle: Theory of Everything Epictetus: Accepting Necessity Descartes: Radical Doubt Kierkegaard: Preparing to Leap Wittgenstein: Freeing fly from bottle Heidegger: Self-Concealing of Being Hadot: A Way of Life
- Replying to @jeffreyhuberYou’re absolutely right, Jeff, thank you for calling that out.
