laws should indeed be moral — javra
good to hear that the white middle class males — Banno
liberal bias has been evident, but it has been only a bias as typically any administration gets some roasting from the political comedians. — ssu
happy to occasionally be offended. — Banno
so he shouldn't be allowed to make further comment...? — Banno
Of itself it is only speech. And, as with a good portion of speech in general, it intends to influence the mindsets of others. — javra
What's happening now is — frank
The part that makes me wonder is how much violence we're already responsible for.
And that is pretty fucked up. — Moliere
Folk seem to think that if, if we know something then it is true, then we can never be mistaken.
Think on it a bit.
If we think we know something and it turns out to be false, then we didn't know it. — Banno
[it is false that] J, T, and B are three separate and reliably verifiable properties of every knowledge-claim. This is also false, as is the sub-idea that the three properties are supposed to be separable: as if we could have knowledge of each of them separate from the others.
JTB is a tripartite schema, which means that the three components are not separable vis-a-vis knowledge. — Leontiskos
you're free to argue that whites are being oppressed and that women aren't. — praxis
the impact of woke is to silence the centre. T — Jeremy Murray
about trans rights, the woke approach isn't working in some respects. — Jeremy Murray
Interpreting events, institutions, and cultural norms in terms of power, inequality, and identity categories — praxis
wokeness doesn’t go back to Karl Marx — praxis
Wittgensteinian. And an ever-moving target, — jorndoe
You could have tried. — jorndoe
Are the Trumpests "anti-woke"? — earlier
Selecting people by merit instead of tradition/snobbery/conformity seems like the right thing to do.
Is that anti-conservative? — jorndoe
the switch towards a "thin" anthropology, and the liberal phobia of strong ethical claims tends to unmoor them from any strong commitment to an ordering telos that structures the "self-development" they intend to promote. — Count Timothy von Icarus
talk of “your good” or “finding your authentic self.” — Count Timothy von Icarus
In the Western tradition ascetic/spiritual exercises were meant to re-order the soul toward truth, goodness, and the divine. In Buddhism, mindfulness is embedded in the Eightfold Path and oriented towards liberation. By contrast, modern adaptations tend to treat these disciplines as mere tools for the self-interested individual, e.g., a means of coping, maximizing productivity, reducing stress, or achieving “authenticity.” I have seen this particularly in some pieces on Stoicism I've read that seem to be largely aimed at the "tech-bro" crowd. A commitment to truth gets shoved aside for a view of philosophy as a sort of "life hack." — Count Timothy von Icarus
fragments of older ascetic traditions that have been hollowed out by modern ideologies. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Philosophy itself has been thoroughly academicatized and professionalized. Outdoor education and similar areas might have a better claim to its ancient mantel at this point (that is, they come much closer to how it was practiced) — Count Timothy von Icarus
That it is: Existence
What it is: Essence — Baden
our epistemic practices require certainties that are not proved from within the practice but make proof possible. — Sam26
Much of the literature treats Gettier as a mortal wound to JTB. I don’t. Gettier cases work only if we confuse seeming justified with being justified. If the support for a true belief essentially depends on a false ground, the belief fails the J-condition, full stop. I mark this with an anti-false-grounds constraint: justification must not essentially rely on falsehood. That preserves the classical core without endless epicycles. — Sam26
hunt for one essence of justification; I look for overlapping patterns that guide our reasoning. — Sam26
Truth and justification remain conceptually distinct, two different “grammars” in Wittgenstein’s sense, even though, in practice, our only route to truth runs through justificatory methods.
Truth: how the world is (a world constraint on speech acts).
Justified: whether one’s reasons meet the public standards of the operative language-game (science, law, everyday perception, math).
We don’t reduce truth to justification, and we don’t pretend justification is free of truth. We couple them so that justification tracks truth (anti-false-grounds + practice-safety), and Wittgensteinian hinges stop the regress (and circularity) that would make any coupling impossible. — Sam26
Does it undermine the strong rejection to rationally illuminate the grounds for strong rejection? — Leontiskos
they will reduce their price if you hire a DEI officer? — Mijin
Czeslaw Milosz wrote about in the Captive Mind, where he had to come up with delusions in order to soothe the inevitable cognitive dissonance required to live under Stalinism — NOS4A2
definitions are fraught — jorndoe
I am exactly responding to the claim that it was necessary for "good" insurance.
So, I'll ask again: are you maintaining that a given insurer, or a particular insurance package, mandated that you hire a DEI officer? — Mijin
some gagging" == universities, government agencies including health agencies, the judiciary, the free press and millions of Americans' right to protest. — Mijin
"gagging athena" == an anecdote from one guy — Mijin
[naming a DEI officer] was a requirement of a particular insurer — Mijin
retarded — jorndoe
Not what I associate with "woke", — jorndoe
the gagging of universities, government departments, journalists etc that right now is happening — Mijin
If I were to point you to the data that more diverse workforces are associated with higher profitability, would it change your view on DEI? If not then there's your answer. — Mijin
from some googling around… some (minority) of insurers require a declaration of what the DEI policy is, but they can't ask you to hire someone. — Mijin
Years ago, I was horrified by the demands of men-hating, homosexual women, who had gotten control of a women's shelter. I was in training to be a volunteer, and as their hate of men went on and on, I felt like I had to defend men. I dared to say, it is not only men who can be abusive, but women can be the abusers too. That resulted in being told I was not welcome. These angry women also made it a rule that mothers must allow their children to sit on the laps of a gay person, and if they did not, this mother and child needing protection would be thrown out of the center. Anyone who opposed them in any way was the enemy, and anger was their driving force.
— Athena — Fire Ologist
Years ago, I was horrified by the demands of men-hating, homosexual women, who had gotten control of a women's shelter. I was in training to be a volunteer, and as their hate of men went on and on, I felt like I had to defend men. I dared to say, it is not only men who can be abusive, but women can be the abusers too. That resulted in being told I was not welcome. These angry women also made it a rule that mothers must allow their children to sit on the laps of a gay person, and if they did not, this mother and child needing protection would be thrown out of the center. Anyone who opposed them in any way was the enemy, and anger was their driving force. — Athena
Fighting "the woke" or "the woke mind virus" is the excuse being given — Mijin
[DEI] has worked just fine for thousands of corporations — Mijin
DEI is about equality and trying to draw from as wide a pool as possible. — Mijin
it's punching down versus punching up. — Mijin
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" — Mijin
we have given you, repeatedly, the long list of the ways that fascism is being implemented in the US right now, with one of the justifications frequently being "fighting woke". You haven't acknowledged any of it. — Mijin
suggesting an ethical stance — jorndoe
ethical stance, then trying to ask if that's more important than conservatism. — jorndoe
how come you can poke fun about white people in ways that are considered racist if you were to say about other races?
And the answer is that it's not symmetric because society is white majority, — Mijin
My position IOW is that it's bullshit. — Mijin
you've got this backwards. It is a boogieman of mostly manufactured and exaggerated grievances. — Mijin
and you can't even define it. — Mijin
“Woke” refers to being aware of social injustice, but also the hidden causes of such injustice; and it means to search deeper into how injustice has been systemically built into our institutions (like the police and justice system, capitalism, patriarchy, conservatism, Christianity). Being awake or enlightened, but to the ways our traditions have let us down. — Fire Ologist
it's "anti-woke" that is impinging on people's and institutional freedoms — Mijin
manufactured and exaggerated grieveances — Mijin
Selecting people by merit instead of tradition/conformity seems like the right thing to do.
Is that anti-conservative? — jorndoe
Is the only critique of anti-woke to come from the woke? — praxis
I agree, race or sex has nothing to do with the best candidate for a job — Fire Ologist
I also agree, until the 1980’s, and for some still today, many people just refused to see the fact that women and all races can be just as good at many jobs as anyone else, and to just be happy for this fact. I agree much progress has been made towards this good, equitable goal since the 1980s.
Racism is irrational. Sexism is ignorant — Fire Ologist
the best candidate for a job might not be the white, male, able-bodied guy who looks like all the others and we should try to cast as wide a net as possible.
Thousands of companies have implemented such policies successfully. — Mijin
the former USSR and the USA were not so different states in the mentality of their citizens (which may sound like wildness now), which I cannot say about the closeness of the Chinese and American mentalities. — Astorre
So, it's not accurate to say that people become woke to “avoid responsibility.” Rather, wokeness often stems from unconscious motivations that are more complex than we usually admit. — Number2018
Woke is an activist control mechanism, not an actual philosophy.
So there is no point debating the philosophical underpinnings - the average wokist can't articulate them anyway. — Jeremy Murray
People who showcase an unhealthy obsession with things in the past that they have little to no connection to, are often running away from their problems in the present. — Tzeentch
in everyday life…a simple person, with ordinary views, with simple desires and good intentions. Perhaps philosophy teaches us this? — Astorre
And so on ad infinitum. As they said above - you can't put the genie back in the bottle =))) — Astorre
one does not “decide” to be an activist in a fully autonomous, intentional sense. — Number2018
a need …or a desire, draws one into it — Number2018
desire is never pre-social. It does not originate from a pure, inner core of the individual, but is always produced within and through social assemblages. — Number2018
..,one’s ideology resonates with the subject’s unconscious investments, shaped by one’s socio-aesthetic milieu. — Number2018
activism often operates as a displacement of desire. The radical energy that cannot confront capitalism — Number2018
activism may be both an expression of unconscious desire and an adaptive performative mechanism within the late capitalist subjectivity. — Number2018
[woke is] critical theory or something with fairly obvious value — Baden