#john-locke — Public Fediverse posts
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' ' Commonplace users "broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by transcribing them in different sections of their notebook." It was a mixture of fragmented order and disorder that anticipated a particular form of scientific investigation and organisation of information. ' '
Fascinating. Brothers and sisters from the 17th and 18th centuries, you are so close to us. We greet you across the great divide.
#JohnLocke #NoteTaking #CommonPlaceBooks #Zettelkasten #bricolage #ClaudeLeviStrauss
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Random but with how things are going
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“Odessa was a great news town. High murder rate. But after the bust, it lost its confidence. It kept having attempted murders instead.” -- John Watkins
Not only that gem but also what sounds like a very fine book about #JohnLocke and his troublesome ideas.
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"[Political philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) was] concerned that the people have representatives with sufficient power to block attacks on their liberty"
"If the rule of law is ignored, if the representatives of the people are prevented from assembling, if the mechanisms of election are altered without popular consent, or if the people are handed over to a foreign power, then they can take back their original authority and overthrow the govt"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/
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Rather than completely eliminating the normative state, the #Nazi regime slowly created a parallel zone in which “unlimited arbitrariness & #violence unchecked by any legal guarantees” reigned freely. In this domain, which Fraenkel called the “prerogative state,” ordinary #law didn’t apply. (A #PrerogativePower is one that allows a person such as a monarch to act without regard to the laws on the books; theorists from #JohnLocke onward have offered various formulations of the idea.)
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"La logique de l'extraction maximale de la valeur était à l'œuvre non seulement en Grande-Bretagne, mais aussi dans ses colonies. L'impératif moral d'améliorer la terre, de réorganiser la Terre sous forme de Nature et la Nature sous forme de Ressource a été le principal (mais pas le seul) motif de dépossession des peuples autochtones de leurs Terres."
— Max Liboiron: Polluer, c'est coloniser, p. 133
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3 Major Issues With John Locke’s Philosophy:
https://archive.is/3y3XPOriginal link:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/3-major-issues-with-john-lockes-philosophy-cfad4bf16a8d -
ending w/him accusing #legislators of seeking to “obtain a most extensive #power over the Minds of the rest of Mankind.” 4yrs later, a #mob angered by unfair taxes…hanged Gov Colden in #effigy, smashed…his coaches, & threw the bits of wood into a huge bonfire….
Where did these intense feelings about #judicial #independence come from? A few colonists knew the work of the British political #philosopher #JohnLocke or the French essayist #Montesquieu, esp their writings on … #SeparationOfPowers,
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Pancake recipe by John Locke. But where to get orange blossom water?
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#OnThisDay in 2019, Unknown text by #JohnLocke “Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others” (1667-68), an argument for religious toleration announced discovered at St John’s College, Annapolis.
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de-paywalled february show from Death Panel
https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/how-we-talk-about-gerontocracy#DeathPanel #DeathPanelPod #inclusion #exclusion #ageism #disability #medicalization #rationality #rationalism #liberalism #neoliberalism #liberalImagination #presidency #DemocraticParty #DNC #JohnLocke #JohnRawls #EzraKlein
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Thinking
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
slip:4a1409.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #JohnLocke #Quotes
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A #review of the #book “America’s Philosopher” by Claire Rydell Arcenas:
“Antidote To Marx”, London Review Of Books (https://archive.is/2023.12.21-013758/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n01/colin-kidd/antidote-to-marx).
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@bibliolater @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @philosophy There are polymaths still. Exemplars such as #JohnLocke have been separated from the rabble of humanity by time. You will find living ‘diamonds in the rough’ if you travel, explore and engage!!
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In A Letter Concerning Toleration, #JohnLocke wrote that "there is absolutely no such thing, under the Gospel, as a #Christian Commonwealth"
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Manchmal braucht es keine schlüssigen Argumente, um unmoralische Ideen zu rechtfertigen. Ist ein Phänomen bedeutend genug, reichen Ausflüchte. Das zeigt das Beispiel der Sklaverei.#WarkusWelt #Philosophie #JohnLocke #Sklaverei #Kultur
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CW: +uspol
“It took centuries of intellectual, #philosophical development to achieve #political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from #Aristotle to #JohnLocke to the #FoundingFathers. The system they established was not based on unlimited majority rule, but on its opposite: on #IndividualRights, which were not to be alienated by majority vote or minority plotting. […] This was the great #American achievement.”
—“Theory and Practice,” #AynRand
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#DonaldHoffman - How Do #HumanBrains #Function?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71HwjFT4ow&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Science #Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfScience #Human #Humans #Brain #Brains #ReductiveFunctionnalism #Perception #Vision #CreativeVision #Locke #JohnLocke #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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"The joyless quest for joy."
an iconic characterization & critique of modern liberalism & materialism, taken from #LeoStrauss discussion of #JohnLocke, in Natural Rights and History, 1953.
https://archive.org/details/naturalrighthis00stra/page/251/mode/1up?view=theater&q=%22Life+is+the+joyless+quest+for+joy.%22
Noted by @stephendeide in essay on #homelessness & political theory
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RT @ManhattanInst
"In crafting programs to help the …
https://twitter.com/ManhattanInst/status/1625253504179642368