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Samuel Delorme
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🍁 philosophy phd student chillin like a villain at ucsd

studying the makings of effort, control, and moral competence
b. williams, in "philosophy as a humanistic discipline, repeatedly characterizes philosophy as the exercise of 'making sense' of ourselves and our activities. many, including me, are sympathetic to this thought.

only, what does it mean to make sense of oneself and one's activities?
March 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
fav passage from mill's utilitarianism
April 25, 2024 at 9:09 PM
what amor fati, in nietzche's expression of it, seems to preclude, is the decrying of injustice. can be seen here in his new years resolution. and that is a problem.
January 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
for murdoch the common salience structure between the two is one that is excluded: "the fat relentless ego".

for weil the excluded salience structures are those that demand of, latch onto the world. (quote below)

answer for both lies in what study and moral attentiveness exclude, not share (4/4)
October 9, 2023 at 4:28 AM
thinkin about this piece by chris mole (goated)

from emp. results that show that visual regions with statistical regularities become salient to us, and we become better at recognizing other stimuli and regularities in that region afterwards, he tentatively infers that...(1/4)
October 9, 2023 at 4:21 AM