Enphian 🏳️🌈🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
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He/They • 20 • Nussbaumian Neo-Aristotelian ⚖️ • Perfectionist Liberal Social Democrat 🌷🕊️ • 🇹🇼🇺🇦🇽🇰🇵🇸🇪🇭🇦🇫🇦🇲 • Studying Public Administration and Political Science 🏛️
Wow, vem kunde förutsätt detta?
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Wow, vem kunde förutsätt detta?
Så öppet att det inte gjorde det för folkets skull.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Så öppet att det inte gjorde det för folkets skull.
For example she insists that Marx Paris Manuscripts are compatible with liberal social democracy. And refers to thinkers she agrees with as “liberal social democrats” in the revised preface for The Fragility of Goodness.
And in Justice for Animals she even calls Mill a social democrat. Despite re-
And in Justice for Animals she even calls Mill a social democrat. Despite re-
Nussbaum seemingly has a distaste for the term socialism. As evidenced by some interviews of hers as well as her general insistence on not using the term to describe her own views, nor the views of thinkers she find compelling.
December 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For example she insists that Marx Paris Manuscripts are compatible with liberal social democracy. And refers to thinkers she agrees with as “liberal social democrats” in the revised preface for The Fragility of Goodness.
And in Justice for Animals she even calls Mill a social democrat. Despite re-
And in Justice for Animals she even calls Mill a social democrat. Despite re-
Nussbaum seemingly has a distaste for the term socialism. As evidenced by some interviews of hers as well as her general insistence on not using the term to describe her own views, nor the views of thinkers she find compelling.
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Nussbaum seemingly has a distaste for the term socialism. As evidenced by some interviews of hers as well as her general insistence on not using the term to describe her own views, nor the views of thinkers she find compelling.
I do feel pretty disconnected from the world this vacation, especially now that I am out in three Tanzanian inland and spending most of the day without internet.
I can’t tell if it’s good or bad for me yet.
I can’t tell if it’s good or bad for me yet.
December 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I do feel pretty disconnected from the world this vacation, especially now that I am out in three Tanzanian inland and spending most of the day without internet.
I can’t tell if it’s good or bad for me yet.
I can’t tell if it’s good or bad for me yet.
There’s something so deeply moving and interesting about seeing the grandeur of nature up close.
Unlike most feelings, be they good or bad, it isn’t concerned with the self. That’s the beauty of wonder, it’s an amazement with what something other or separate.
Unlike most feelings, be they good or bad, it isn’t concerned with the self. That’s the beauty of wonder, it’s an amazement with what something other or separate.
December 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
There’s something so deeply moving and interesting about seeing the grandeur of nature up close.
Unlike most feelings, be they good or bad, it isn’t concerned with the self. That’s the beauty of wonder, it’s an amazement with what something other or separate.
Unlike most feelings, be they good or bad, it isn’t concerned with the self. That’s the beauty of wonder, it’s an amazement with what something other or separate.
I will prefix this by saying that I have not read much Marx. However, I don’t get the justification for considering labour/productive activity to be the essence of man, as argued in the Paris Manuscripts.
In general Marx account of alienation falls apart for me when it becomes important.
In general Marx account of alienation falls apart for me when it becomes important.
December 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I will prefix this by saying that I have not read much Marx. However, I don’t get the justification for considering labour/productive activity to be the essence of man, as argued in the Paris Manuscripts.
In general Marx account of alienation falls apart for me when it becomes important.
In general Marx account of alienation falls apart for me when it becomes important.
We often talk about institutions. But we oft fail to mention that moral virtue is the most complete way to ensure good institutional behavior.
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We often talk about institutions. But we oft fail to mention that moral virtue is the most complete way to ensure good institutional behavior.
Rén zhī chū, xìng běn shàn, xìng xiāng jìn, xí xiāng yuǎn
It's all right, mou man tai
It is time, such is life
It's all right, mou man tai
It is time, such is life
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Rén zhī chū, xìng běn shàn, xìng xiāng jìn, xí xiāng yuǎn
It's all right, mou man tai
It is time, such is life
It's all right, mou man tai
It is time, such is life
As for audio book I do plan to listen to Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals, Paine’s Rights of Man (+ Age of Reason if I have nothing else left) and Hermann Hesse’s Demian.
I do however have more books and some audio books still, which I will probably get through a bit of.
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As for audio book I do plan to listen to Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals, Paine’s Rights of Man (+ Age of Reason if I have nothing else left) and Hermann Hesse’s Demian.
I’ve finished the main books I wanted to read this vacation, these being:
- Discourses by Epictetus
- On Anger, On Clemency, Apocolocyntosis and Medea by Seneca
- On the Good Life by Cicero*
So now I will be mostly reading course material I’ve missed by way of this vacation for the next few days.
- Discourses by Epictetus
- On Anger, On Clemency, Apocolocyntosis and Medea by Seneca
- On the Good Life by Cicero*
So now I will be mostly reading course material I’ve missed by way of this vacation for the next few days.
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I’ve finished the main books I wanted to read this vacation, these being:
- Discourses by Epictetus
- On Anger, On Clemency, Apocolocyntosis and Medea by Seneca
- On the Good Life by Cicero*
So now I will be mostly reading course material I’ve missed by way of this vacation for the next few days.
- Discourses by Epictetus
- On Anger, On Clemency, Apocolocyntosis and Medea by Seneca
- On the Good Life by Cicero*
So now I will be mostly reading course material I’ve missed by way of this vacation for the next few days.
Honestly, despite the heat this is quite relaxing.
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Honestly, despite the heat this is quite relaxing.
“I like a man without money better than money without a man.”
“Our decision should depend, not on the extent of his possessions, but purely and simply on what sort of man he is himself.”
“Our decision should depend, not on the extent of his possessions, but purely and simply on what sort of man he is himself.”
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“I like a man without money better than money without a man.”
“Our decision should depend, not on the extent of his possessions, but purely and simply on what sort of man he is himself.”
“Our decision should depend, not on the extent of his possessions, but purely and simply on what sort of man he is himself.”
Like we should really get to federating. It would be so peak!
I fucking LOVE Nordism. The Nordics are the best place on earth and have amongst the best political systems in the world.
December 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Like we should really get to federating. It would be so peak!
I fucking LOVE Nordism. The Nordics are the best place on earth and have amongst the best political systems in the world.
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I fucking LOVE Nordism. The Nordics are the best place on earth and have amongst the best political systems in the world.
There’s a difference between “making rules easier” and just making them weaker. But some people clearly don’t get that.
December 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
There’s a difference between “making rules easier” and just making them weaker. But some people clearly don’t get that.
On another note I think that same person who made that tweet about fiction also makes the claim that virtue ethics (a very indeterminate category) isn’t a real ethical approach because it isn’t (principally) concerned with right action.
The good life, happiness, flourishing, whatever you call it, is principally the concern we ought to achieve as humans. And literature, be it tragedy, romance or even a broad category like novels, all give insight into what good living is.
December 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
On another note I think that same person who made that tweet about fiction also makes the claim that virtue ethics (a very indeterminate category) isn’t a real ethical approach because it isn’t (principally) concerned with right action.
There was a tweet from like a year ago I remember that basically argued that fiction is worse than philosophy/not important. Because it teaches nothing which philosophy can’t.
And I can’t help but feel that it completely misses the point of (good) literature.
And I can’t help but feel that it completely misses the point of (good) literature.
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There was a tweet from like a year ago I remember that basically argued that fiction is worse than philosophy/not important. Because it teaches nothing which philosophy can’t.
And I can’t help but feel that it completely misses the point of (good) literature.
And I can’t help but feel that it completely misses the point of (good) literature.
“Living well is a demanding task, calling for many kinds of competence, each of which any given person has to varying degrees.”
December 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“Living well is a demanding task, calling for many kinds of competence, each of which any given person has to varying degrees.”
The reason for this is that they all originate from the same stream of ideas, they just interpreted them in somewhat different ways.
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The reason for this is that they all originate from the same stream of ideas, they just interpreted them in somewhat different ways.
In addition I think there is plenty in Marx, mainly his early works, which is principally not to be read as a rejection of enlightenment liberalism but rather an attempt at developing it to a higher level.
I think that project generally did not work out too well. However the “early Marx” did cont-
I think that project generally did not work out too well. However the “early Marx” did cont-
In reality the differences between many more left-liberal thinkers is exaggerated. There is a lot of overlap between figures like Mill, Green, Barker, Smith and Paine. Vastly more than one would believe on first glance.
To be clear, there is plenty of good in the works of utilitarians. And more generally I think the primary liberal utilitarian (Mill) is not really a utilitarian. And the notion of pure “negative liberty” attributed to early liberals a fabrication of their positions.
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
In addition I think there is plenty in Marx, mainly his early works, which is principally not to be read as a rejection of enlightenment liberalism but rather an attempt at developing it to a higher level.
I think that project generally did not work out too well. However the “early Marx” did cont-
I think that project generally did not work out too well. However the “early Marx” did cont-
In reality the differences between many more left-liberal thinkers is exaggerated. There is a lot of overlap between figures like Mill, Green, Barker, Smith and Paine. Vastly more than one would believe on first glance.
To be clear, there is plenty of good in the works of utilitarians. And more generally I think the primary liberal utilitarian (Mill) is not really a utilitarian. And the notion of pure “negative liberty” attributed to early liberals a fabrication of their positions.
People don’t care enough about human rights, even in the liberal west. In part because the historically dominant intellectual traditions have not been rights based. Neither liberal utilitarianism or classical conceptions of “negative liberty” grasp what rights truly are.
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
In reality the differences between many more left-liberal thinkers is exaggerated. There is a lot of overlap between figures like Mill, Green, Barker, Smith and Paine. Vastly more than one would believe on first glance.
To be clear, there is plenty of good in the works of utilitarians. And more generally I think the primary liberal utilitarian (Mill) is not really a utilitarian. And the notion of pure “negative liberty” attributed to early liberals a fabrication of their positions.
People don’t care enough about human rights, even in the liberal west. In part because the historically dominant intellectual traditions have not been rights based. Neither liberal utilitarianism or classical conceptions of “negative liberty” grasp what rights truly are.
December 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
To be clear, there is plenty of good in the works of utilitarians. And more generally I think the primary liberal utilitarian (Mill) is not really a utilitarian. And the notion of pure “negative liberty” attributed to early liberals a fabrication of their positions.
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🥳 Historic win in the EU Parliament! Today, a majority of MEPs voted to guarantee the safe and legal access to #abortion for anyone who needs it in the EU.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🥳 Historic win in the EU Parliament! Today, a majority of MEPs voted to guarantee the safe and legal access to #abortion for anyone who needs it in the EU.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.