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“Gender is not a binary, it’s a spectrum”: some problems – More radical with age
An oft-repeated mantra among proponents of the notion of gender identity is that “gender is not a binary, it’s a spectrum”. The basic idea is that what makes gender oppressive is not, as the radical feminist analysis would have it, that it is an externally imposed set of norms prescribing and proscribing behaviour to individuals in accordance with morally arbitrary biological characteristics, and coercively placing them in one of two positions in a hierarchy. Rather, the problem is that we recognise only two possible genders. Thus humans of both sexes could be liberated if we recognised that while gender is indeed an internal, essential facet of our identity, there are more genders than just “man” or “woman” to choose from. There are numerous problems with the logic of this view, that render it both internally inconsistent, and politically unattractive. 1. 2. I assume the two ends of the spectrum are masculinity and femininity. 3. 4. According to that last link, your gender can be
Czeslaw Milosz: the Moralist and the Philosopher
The Moralist and the Philosopher Short-story writer and philosopher Milosz’s poetry brings also thoughts of philosophical and moral character. Put in the foreground one can find the problem of the disintegration of the Universe based on religion, constant search for God and peace and inner order MAGPIETY (King Popiel and Others Poems) The same and not quite the same, I walked through oak forestsAmazed that my Muse, Mnemosyne,Has in no way diminished my amazement.A magpie was screeching and I said: Magpiety?What is magpiety? Montgeran, 1958 translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott I SLEEP A LOT (Bobo's Metamorphosis) I sleep a lot and read St. When I couldn't do without alcohol, I drove myself on alcohol,When I couldn't do without cigarettes and coffee, I drove myselfOn cigarettes and coffee.I was courageous. I feel a pain.not here. Please, Medicine Man, I feel a pain.I always believed in spells and incantations.Sure, women have only one, Catholic, soul,But we have two.
Syncretism
Syncretism (/ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm/) is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths. Syncretism also occurs commonly in expressions of arts and culture (known as eclecticism) as well as politics (syncretic politics). Nomenclature[edit] The English word is first attested in the early 17th century,[1] from Modern Latin syncretismus, drawing on Greek συγκρητισμός (synkretismos), supposedly meaning "Cretan federation", but this is a spurious etymology from the naive idea in Plutarch's 1st-century AD essay on "Fraternal Love (Peri Philadelphias)" in his collection Moralia (2.490b). Social and political roles[edit] Religious syncretism[edit] Cultures and societies[edit] During the Enlightenment[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit]
Little Girl Has Been Feeding Crows Since She Was 4. Now They Bring Her Gifts To Say Thankyou.
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Diogenes of Sinope
ancient Greek Cynic philosopher from Sinope Diogenes was a controversial figure. His father minted coins for a living, and Diogenes was banished from Sinope when he took to debasement of currency.[1] After being exiled, he moved to Athens and criticized many cultural conventions of the city. Diogenes made a virtue of poverty. Diogenes was captured by pirates and sold into slavery, eventually settling in Corinth. Life[edit] Nothing is known about Diogenes' early life except that his father, Hicesias, was a banker.[9] It seems likely that Diogenes was also enrolled into the banking business aiding his father. In Athens[edit] Diogenes arrived in Athens with a slave named Manes who escaped from him shortly thereafter. The stories told of Diogenes illustrate the logical consistency of his character. In Corinth[edit] Although most of the stories about his living in a jar[4] are located in Athens, there are some accounts of his living in a jar near the Craneum gymnasium in Corinth: Death[edit]
PN Review Online Poetry Literary Magazine - The Freezing Coachman: some reflections on art and morality - Raymond Tallis - PN Review 96
Tolstoy tells the story of an aristocratic woman at the theatre weeping at the imaginary tragedy enacted on the stage. At the same time, outside in the cold, a real tragedy is taking place: her old and faithful coachman, awaiting her in the bitter winter night, is freezing to death. The point of the story is obvious: art does not necessarily make people better behaved, or more considerate. The dissociation between art and good behaviour angered Tolstoy and, in What is Art? By these criteria, most of the art approved by his contemporaries could be dismissed: not only the works of Baudelaire, Wagner and Ibsen but much of Beethoven, Bach and Pushkin belonged to the category of bad art. Tolstoy's late views - sharply at odds with earlier beliefs he had expressed with equal passion - are the more disturbing for emanating from the supreme practitioner of the art of fiction. It's not only critics but also artists themselves who believe in, or dream of, a morally useful art.
Globalization and the Posthuman - William S. Haney II
How much does it matter whether God exists? — Aeon O...
Alan/Flickr Two rooms, in two different cities, but pretty much the same scene: one man stands before a few dozen supporters, many of them middle-aged white males, plus a smaller, precocious cohort in early adulthood. As the man speaks, they interrupt him with good, earnest, detailed questions, which he ably answers more or less to their satisfaction. These crowds crave the intricacies of arguments and the upshots of science. The only thing that seems beyond their ken is how their counterparts in the other room could be convinced of something so wrong. One of those rooms was in New York City, high in an office building overlooking the ruins that then still remained of the World Trade Center; the man was Richard Dawkins, the Oxford zoologist and ‘New Atheist’ polemicist. Whether such a thing as God exists is one of those questions that we use to mark our identities, choose our friends, and divide our families. Today, Spinoza stands as a progenitor of the modern, scientific worldview.
Do people have a moral duty to have children if they...
Many people want to have children. But they might wonder: is it ethical to bring a child into this broken world, where she might suffer – and partake in – various harms and injustices? Others prefer not to have children. This choice also raises ethical qualms: is it ‘selfish’ to refrain from procreating? Are non-parents failing to contribute to the future of humanity – to the building of the next generation – in a way that we all should if we can? It is tempting to dismiss such questions on the grounds that whether or not you have kids is a personal matter. True enough. Is it fair to your would-be child to bring her into a life that will inevitably contain significant amounts of pain, discomfort, suffering and heartache? If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Yes, you can expect your child’s life to contain happiness, satisfaction, joy and love. This inference is too quick. Get Aeon straight to your inbox Video
