AJ Galang
@galangaj.bsky.social
Asst prof, U of the Phils. Professional introspector. Part time obfuscator. he/him/legion. creativity | risk taking | novelty seeking | abductive reasoning
I find this a startling moral position, and it will probably trouble me for a long time.
Life is a moral catastrophe. To exist is to be unavoidably complicit in an order that is entirely evil. What are we to do about this moral fact? Should we retire from existence as quickly and as peacefully as possible? Or is there another way?
Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics | Aeon Essays
Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe
buff.ly
September 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I find this a startling moral position, and it will probably trouble me for a long time.
Reposted by AJ Galang
My piece on Schopenhauer and happiness for @aeon.co has been re-featured as part of a ‘from the archives’ series of essays that led to books. (There’s a little extra addendum at the end.) Thanks again to @nigelwarburton.bsky.social for commissioning it in the first place.
For Schopenhauer, happiness is a state of semi-satisfaction | Aeon Essays
Renowned for his pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer was nonetheless a conoisseur of very distinctive kinds of happiness
aeon.co
August 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My piece on Schopenhauer and happiness for @aeon.co has been re-featured as part of a ‘from the archives’ series of essays that led to books. (There’s a little extra addendum at the end.) Thanks again to @nigelwarburton.bsky.social for commissioning it in the first place.
Yes nature.com this happens to me too. That means we can be besties!
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September 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Yes nature.com this happens to me too. That means we can be besties!
June 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
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It's always a good time
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Whoah whoah-oh
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It's always a good time
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Whoah whoah-oh
April 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
~
It's always a good time
~
Whoah whoah-oh
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It's always a good time
~
Whoah whoah-oh
I have an intuition that good prose constantly moves between the concrete and the abstract. Is there a nice articulation of this somewhere?
March 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I have an intuition that good prose constantly moves between the concrete and the abstract. Is there a nice articulation of this somewhere?