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Philosophia
Clare Marie Moriarty reflects on philosophy and motherhood in a tribute to Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza.
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I've an article in the #IrishPhilosophy edition of #PhilosophyNow. https://philosophynow.org/issues/160
For readers of that, or anyone new to the blog, there's a new introductory post to help people find their way about the blog.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2024/02/06/irish-philosophy-meets-philosophy-now/
Fáilte!
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From the revamped blog:
Adomnán and the Law of the Innocent
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#SilentSunday #IrishPhilosophy
A stained glass window in memory of #OliverGoldsmith, depicting one of the characters from "The Deserted Village", the devoted clergyman. From
St Munis CoI, #Forgney Co. Longford, which lies south of #NewcastleWood.Goldsmith is believed to have been born in the townland of #Pallas, just north of Newcastle Wood (best know as the home of #CenterParcsLongford).
The poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44292/the-deserted-village
Link to the original image https://www.gloine.ie/search/window/14994/w03?i=1
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"In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3217
More on the Irish scholar Dúngal https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/
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One of #DIBs featured bios today is scholar Dorothy Moore https://www.dib.ie/biography/moore-dorothy-nee-king-other-married-name-dury-a10294
(The others are also 17th century women:
Boyle, Margaret (1623 - 1689)
Boyle, Elizabeth (1613 - 1691)
Barry, Alice (1608 - 1667)
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605 - 1678)
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@rmathematicus review of Michelle DiMeo's book "Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister".
Not just an elder sister: https://wp.me/py7Pg-23G
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CW: Hashtags used by #IrishPhilosophy (a record)
👉 #Hashtags 👈
#IrishEnlightenment
#IrishFranciscans
#IrishColleges
#IrishPhilosophy
#IrishPhilosophyOTD** People **
#berkeley
#ConDrury
#DorothyMoore
#Flann
#FlannOBrien
#FrancisHutcheson
#FrancisMartin
#GeorgeBoole
#GeorgeBerkeley
#JamesUssher
#JohnToland
#JonathanSwift
#Kant #Kantian
#KingsmillAbbott
#LadyRanelagh
#Locke
#LukeWadding
#RobertBoyle
#WEHLecky
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Podcast | Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Includes the Irish women Frances Power Cobbe and (arguably) Annie Besant. https://newbooksnetwork.com/women-philosophers-in-nineteenth-century-britain
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Despite what you may have heard, before Patrick's time the Irish culture was primarily oral. The advent of Christianity meant the advent of books - and an introduction into the classical world of which Ireland was not part.
Literacy and Learning in Ireland before and after Patrick – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/17/literacy-learning-patrick/
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"I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
#IrisMurdoch in the novel "The Red and the Green" set in the Ireland of 1916, and of which Damien Kiberd says, “beneath the surface traditionalism…the modern world struggles to be born.”
A post on the philosophy of the novel: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/02/08/murdoch-being-irish/
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The first blogpost on my blog from 10 years ago.
Patrick, Augustine and a blackbird https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/03/17/patrick-augustine-and-a-blackbird/
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Random 18th century weirdness: St Augustine referred to as St Austin. (Confusing until context made it clear.)
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For #internationalWomensDay a blogpost about the battle of 17th century women to enter the intellectual sphere, centered on Dublin-born Dorothy Moore.
Dorothy Moore: Building Networks in the Republic of Letters – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/01/21/dorothy-moore-network/
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Do love this paper, not least for its title
"What the Women of Dublin Did with John Locke"
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Rather surprised to read this (in an article mostly about #Jerome, who translated the bible into Latin):
"He never forgot his first sight of the Attacotti, uncouth natives of Ireland, who sometimes ate human flesh, and had a taste for the buttock-meat of stolen livestock." 😳
https://antigonejournal.com/2021/10/saint-jerome/
No wonder then, that when Jermone made the first mention of the Irish in a vaguely philosophical context, it was as an insult (against #Pelagius ).
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15 Feb: #SophieBryant; mathematican, psychologist, educationalist and thinker; was born in Sandymount, Dublin on this day in 1850.
Sophie Bryant was one of the first two women to graduate from the University of London with a BSc degree in 1881 https://www.london.ac.uk/sophie-bryant
A "woman of many trades", "Mind" gave a selection of her papers as one of their women in philosophy https://academic.oup.com/mind/pages/sophie_bryant
#DIB Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/bryant-sophie-a1088
#IrishPhilosophy: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/02/15/sophie-bryant/
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Schrödinger opposed Nazism, fled to Italy, and came to Ireland after Eamon de Valera (then head of the League of Nations) invited him to work in the Institute for Advanced Studies, then being set up. Schrödinger arrived in the autumn of 1939.
There he gave the series of lectures (in 1943) which became the influential book "What is Life?"
He became an naturalised Irish citizen in 1948 and lived there until 1955 when he returned to Vienna.
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Don’t try this at home: #GeorgeBerkeley and tar-water – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/03/12/berkeley-and-tar-water/
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RT Miles Leeson on Twitter
New #IrisMurdoch Podcast! I'm joined by Megan Laverty from Columbia Teachers College and Evgenia Mylonaki from UPATRAS to discuss #MetaphysicsAsAGuidetoMorals.
https://soundcloud.com/user-548804258/metaphysics-as-a-guide-to-morals-podcast-2
There's even a handout here! https://irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2023/02/09/35th-anniversary/
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RT Miles Leeson
Looking forward to being
@CarlowCollege in a month's time to discuss '#IrisMurdoch , Ireland, and the Supernatural.' The lecture is free and open to all on the evening of the 8th March.https://mobile.twitter.com/miles_leeson/status/1623358519641604096
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Iris Murdoch: the virtue of paying attention
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/07/15/murdoch-attention/
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"For Murdoch, the most crucial moral virtue was a kind of attentiveness to detail, a wise, trained capacity for vision, which could see what was really going on in a situation and respond accordingly. The sort of psychological insight and attentiveness to detail necessary for writing fiction was also, for Murdoch, what enables a person to live a morally good life."
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/02/murdoch-narrative/
From a (sadly deleted) article on secular ethics in #Aeon.
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From this only a short step back to #JonathanSwift 's device in the academy of Laputa in "Gulliver's Travels".
"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”
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#TIL (via #RiversOfLondon by Ben Aaronovitch) that #RobertBoyle wrote the earliest known report of the #bloodhound 's ability to track people (here: https://books.google.ie/books?id=ktYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183 , he also discussed the scenting ability of other breeds, including Irish #dogs hunting wolves)
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3 Feb: Monument to Sir William Wilde and #LadyJaneWilde (the famous nationalist writer "Speranza') at #MountJerome. Under her name come the names of her children, including #OscarWilde.
She died #OTD 1896 in London. The funeral to Kensal Green cemetery was made possible by funds provided for the imprisoned Oscar by friends.
#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/wilde-jane-francesca-agnes-speranza-a9035
On #IrishPhilosophy https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/10/16/lady-jane-wilde/
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"Talking to Thinkers" with #PhilipPettit, 11 December 2022 on #YouTube https://youtu.be/JsMtGleV3iU
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Not only did Mary #Wollstonecraft visit Ireland and like it, she was an important influence on #DanielOConnell
A liberal who corresponded with Jeremy #Bentham for a time and tirelessly campaigned against slavery & for Catholic Emancipation, and Repeal, O'Connell sent his children to the school of Wollstonecraft's sister in Dublin.
Daniel O’Connell’s philosophical influences
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/15/modern-prometheus-oconnell/O'Connell as Frankenstein's monster
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw206038/Political-Frankensteins--Alarmed-at-the-progress-of-a-Giant-of-their-own-Creation -
John Colgan gets a brief mention in this post on the continental #IrishColleges in the 17th century https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/30/irish-colleges-17th-century/
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#ConDrury on rituals as "expressions of friendliness, reverence, and of celebration", including those of #Christmas.
From the preface of “The Danger of Words”.
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"Dia do bheatha" on YouTube https://youtu.be/nzkmgd28yYw
This #Christmas carol is attributed to Aodh Mac Aingil (1571-1626), a theologian and philosopher who worked in the #IrishColleges in Leuvan and Rome, most importantly on the philosophy of #DunsScotus. A proficient poet, he may have studied first at a bardic school.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaconmusaud/8/For a more detailed bio see #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/mac-cathmhaoil-mac-aingil-aodh-maccaghwell-hugh-cavellus-hugo-a5115
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#IrishPhilosophy and the #SouthSeaBubble
#JohnToland lost all his money. He'd been so broke he'd had to use his patron #RobertMolesworth's name as a guarantor to invest.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584Perhaps this & his own losses (plus his Old Whig principles) led #RobertMolesworth to call for the "contrivers...of the villanous South-Sea scheme" to be treated as those who killed their fathers in Ancient Rome: "tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.”
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James Taaffe played a key role in the #Remonstrance affair (the Remonstrance was a controversial expression of loyalty towards #CharlesII drawn up by #PeterWalsh aimed at gaining #toleration for Catholics.)
Taaffe was sent to Ireland to restore unity to the Irish church by explicitly denouncing Walsh and his followers on the pope's behalf. He pretended he had powers from the Pope he did not have, and it all went downhill from there.
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#JohnToland became the Republican Mythmaker via contacts he made in Dublin before he left in a hurry.
His arrival had triggered much writing refuting his #ChristianityNotMysterious (and a series of letters between #Locke and #WilliamMolyneux, which form the basis for the post below).
This controversary was the trigger for the #IrishEnlightenment.
Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment http://irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/
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The previous picture (from wiki) is clearly supposed to be #JohnToland but there's some doubt as to whether it is really him. He was also depicted in this satire of the divisions within the Established Church associated with "Milton's works". He edited these as part of a Whig programme to rehabilitate republican political philosophy for a constitutional monarchy. https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/05/24/toland-myth-maker/
Image with Toland circled: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3419
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According to the Ussher Memoirs (p. 86)
https://archive.org/details/usshermemoirsorg00wrig
#JamesUssher was born in the parish of Nicholas Within, and baptised either in the parish church, or in St Werburgh's Church.The Church of St Nicholas Within that may have seen Ussher's baptism was replaced in 1707 (part of Ab #WilliamKing 's rebuilding scheme)
See https://www.archiseek.com/2010/st-nicholas-within-nicholas-st-dublin/ for more & for picture below.
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#IrishFranciscans worked on the philosophy of John #DunsScotus due to him being a Franciscan AND due to the mistaken belief that he hailed from Co. Down in Ireland.
They fiercely defended his Irishness, including against Thomas Dempster, a writer who claimed everyone from Boudicca to John Scottus Eriugena as Scottish.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/09/18/scottish-debate-17th-century/
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A brief history of Irish Colleges in the 17th century – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/30/irish-colleges-17th-century/
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Noticed it was the death day of John Tillotson (1694) yesterday.
https://mastodon.online/@jdmccafferty/109389403832761266He looks pretty peaceable in his portrait (wiki) but a sermon of his (plus Irish penal laws) provoked #FrancisMartin of Leuvan to write his major theological work "Scutum fidei contra haereses hodiernas" (1714) and he was castigated in #CorneliusNary's first work of controversary "A modest and true account of the chief points in controversy between Roman Catholics and protestants" (1696).
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A brief history of Irish Colleges in the 17th century – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/30/irish-colleges-17th-century/
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Heading into Dublin and will coincidently be in some of the places mentioned in this post on Francis Hutcheson's Dublin:
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/08/08/footsteps-of-hutcheson/
More philosophical for #WorldPhilosophyDay2022 is this on the influence of Stoicism on Hutcheson https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2017/08/08/ulster-stoic/
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Toland believed matter was "the source of life itself" but argued against Bayle's panpsychism (that the property of thinking is inherent in matter), though not successfully.
Materialism and panpsychism (Bayle and Toland edition)
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#FrancisHutcheson wrote in the introduction to his translation of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations that the Meditations inspired “a constant inflexible charity, and good-will and compassion toward our fellows.”
Though Hutcheson had philosophical differences with #Stoicism, they were still an important influence on his work, esp. on #virtue.
Francis Hutcheson: the Ulster Stoic
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2017/08/08/ulster-stoic/
