Time isn't holding us
Aug. 12th, 2005 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cincinnatus_c
Meno paper will be sent off tomorrow, after some three years in the works. Seems longer. Six years since the idea. Maybe next I should do up the Foucault/Habermas paper--more than seven years in the works. Paper itself doesn't seem very exciting, but of course I guess I've lost all perspective on it.
High temp today, here: 25. Dewpoint then: 12. High dewpoint: 15.
High temp today in TO: 28. Dewpoint then: 8. High dewpoint: 16.
Don't like the looks of that 8.
Off on the Greyhound tomorrow, for a couple of days of doctor, funeral, and birthday. Urp.
Read another three or so moral luck articles today (they're all starting to melt into each other), including Judith Jarvis Thomson's. She's another one who says that blame attaches to character. The article is in the High Analytic Style, reading like it was written in the UK sometime around 1960 or something. Reels the mind as thinly sliced are the distinctions. Mostly it seems to be concerned with arguing against the idea that determinism kills morality. Of course, naturally, if blame attaches to character, determinism can't kill morality.
This is something that's starting to nag at me: how could blame attach to intentions or actions rather than persons? You blame, you get angry at, you punish, people.
High temp today, here: 25. Dewpoint then: 12. High dewpoint: 15.
High temp today in TO: 28. Dewpoint then: 8. High dewpoint: 16.
Don't like the looks of that 8.
Off on the Greyhound tomorrow, for a couple of days of doctor, funeral, and birthday. Urp.
Read another three or so moral luck articles today (they're all starting to melt into each other), including Judith Jarvis Thomson's. She's another one who says that blame attaches to character. The article is in the High Analytic Style, reading like it was written in the UK sometime around 1960 or something. Reels the mind as thinly sliced are the distinctions. Mostly it seems to be concerned with arguing against the idea that determinism kills morality. Of course, naturally, if blame attaches to character, determinism can't kill morality.
This is something that's starting to nag at me: how could blame attach to intentions or actions rather than persons? You blame, you get angry at, you punish, people.
