Insightful as ever :wink: But it is what I was hoping for. After I read the SEP article, I couldn't understand the negative focus. I wondered at the r...
Homer: I love you, honey. Marge: Are you talking to me or the beer? Homer: To you my bubbly, longnecked, beechwood aged lover. The role of humour in m...
Yes. I think you are right. They are exceptional. How many of us, as he says, develop talent, the confidence and the determination so early? I think s...
You what ? :chin: Did you read the cartoon I linked to earlier. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/05/look-life-is-really-tough-even-w...
To be honest, I didn't get or appreciate that final sentence of Monday's digest. Crace started off well with: 'It’s been a good few days for 15-year-o...
Never mind, there's always the weekly digest of an anxious depressive John Crace... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/05/at-62-my-life-stil...
Phew! So glad :cool: you're not mad :naughty: Talking of which... Mad magazine, a US institution famous for the grinning face of jug-eared, tiny-eyed ...
:grin: I couldn't possibly comment but...playing with Kant... 'Remarkably few philosophers have even mentioned that humor sex is a kind of play, much ...
About the highprofiles interview I linked to earlier: Simon Jenkins, Feb 2013. https://highprofiles.info/interview/mary-midgley/ I didn't realise that...
Following this discussion: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4326/death-of-mary-midgley Have downloaded a free kindle version of Mary Midgley'...
Just downloaded her 'The Myths We Live By' - currently free on kindle edition :smile: Review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/aug/16/highereduc...
Mary would be upset. But would smile at reviews - clearer and not trying to sound clever. Like this one, Tim Lukeman 5.0 out of 5 starsSumming up a li...
Sorry, my mistake. Didn't think it sounded like PN. That bit of the review was from The Template. Amazon uses asterisks to highlight and separate revi...
OK, appreciate your impression. I think I need to read her own words and unpack them. I think that I both agree and disagree with her ! Now which book...
Final words. Last book on the list: http://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/about/visit-the-midgley-archive/the-works-of-mary-midgley/ 'What is Philosophy...
Which of the 3 books you read would you say expressed her ideas on morality succinctly. I like the sound of 'Heart and Mind'. When I said earlier that...
Another in-depth Mary Midgley interview. Simon Jenkins, Feb 2013. https://highprofiles.info/interview/mary-midgley/ Some gleanings: Politics: Socialis...
Do you wear smarty-pants ? Mary Midgley's are just some of the eternally quaint ideas discussed in this esteemed forum. Anyway, you interrupted my tho...
https://marymidgley.wordpress.com Mary on Mary Midgley: I am a free-lance philosopher. My special interests are in the relations of humans to the rest...
Totally agree. I think I read somewhere that she waited until she felt she had something to say. Perhaps...but more likely because she took time out t...
Interesting to see the books you both chose to read and also that there is a collection of online essays. I note her appeal as a clear writer. But wha...
Shame this conversation is taking place in the Lounge. I think Mary would like to be out there in the bigger forum. The more people to reach the bette...
Andrew Anthony interviewed her, describing in context, her spirit and intellect. Re any school-marmly style, Mary responds to his question on consciou...
I read a bit about her here: https://philosophynow.org/issues/89/The_Philosophy_Now_Festival In 2012, her son accepting her PN Award for Contributions...
Well, I think the thread title is open to all kinds of interpretation. 'Regret' can be of different kinds and degrees. It is an umbrella term - your r...
Hi again. Sorry I don't know you as well as others here. However, here goes my tuppeny response. You sound a bit stressed out and low in energy. Glad ...
Currently not reading. Too many books started and not finished. However last week caught a Goethe at Lake Garda. The name of a speed ferry. Not quite ...
Hi, you don't know me but... You have been missing and missed by all your friends here. Good call by Hanover - hope he and others are now reassured th...
Just came across this piece of gold. Worthy of a shout out but too easy to miss or pass by in the Shoutbox. If only muggers of any kind could be philo...
Yes. My preparation for reading has included looking at this intensity and from where it sprang. Given, as you say, that K wrote as therapy for self, ...
Appreciate you getting back to TS. I was a bit dismissive in my earlier response, wanting to focus and get on with the purpose of the thread's OP. I t...
Again, thanks for continued clarification of Kierkegaard. I will be following this conversation wherever it might lead. However, I have a certain book...
Thanks for answering this question. I thought it had been missed in the ongoing conversation. I will follow this now with interest. Careful, informati...
Seeking advice on approach to reading Kierkegaard if one has no religious beliefs. Can we still find value, or wisdom, as in e.g. the Serenity Prayer ...
Thanks, I like to be clear- all the better to see another's perspective. I find this interesting. What have you read so far ? Will you be reading ' Th...
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