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- “If only Bentham had read the Kāma Sūtra” — Amod Lele on the “conceptual confusion” involved when we “treat ‘pleasure’ and ‘pain’ as opposites, such that an increase in one is an absence of the other”
- “It’s a full length musical that treats Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous philosopher, as the ‘Hamilton’ musical treats Hamilton” — “Nietzsche,” the musical, opens at the A.R.T. New York Mezzanine Theater in October. More info here.
- “Judging someone’s deeper, more important qualities based on attire often feels so natural; people get upset when I refuse to engage in the same judgment. To them, it feels as though I’m denying something so obvious, I’m dishonest.” — fashion writer Derek Guy on “respectability in dress”
- “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us” — when Bertrand Russell declined to debate a fascist
- “At first, you won’t be able to sit. In nervous motion, the absent phone will seem like the concatenation of all possibilities in all the world, exactly all the things you will, not might, but will be missing if you don’t figure out how to take another look, just a small one” — Mary Townsend on the why and what-it’s-like of giving up her smartphone
- The HPS Podcast is a series of conversations on the history, philosophy, and social studies of science — developed by grad students at Melbourne, recent guests include Philip Kitcher, Lydia Patton, Heather Douglas, and others
- What is “good boring art”? — according to say John Gibson & Andreas Elpidorou, it is “art that prolongs an experience of discontent and frustrated agency and draws from it forms of philosophical insight”
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