Deep thought on Kant’s “Ought implies can”
Kant’s dictum Ought implies can is true — except when you’re drunk.
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Philosophy
Libraries discriminate against the blind
And symphonies discriminate against the deaf. I mocked that view in criticizing last year’s lawsuit against Chipotle: Chipotle Mexican Grill versus egalitarianism. Turns out, though, that it’s cutting-edge civil rights law based on the Americans with Disabilities Act: “Justice Department Settles with Sacramento, Calif., Public Library Authority Over Inaccessible ‘E-Reader’ Devices”. The library had acquired
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Explaining Postmodernism as university textbook
I learned this week that my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault will be used this academic year as a textbook in philosophy courses in New York, Canada, and South Africa. How cool is that.
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Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical
Over the years I’ve enjoyed and learned from many of Carlin Romano’s articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He can do good philosophical reporting. So I picked up America the Philosophical, and I was disappointed. Romano’s thesis is that the United States is a nation of vigorous philosophical activity and — contrary to the
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I received an email from the Übermensch today
Subject: Emanation of Zarathustra… Dear Professor Hicks, I’ve noted in your “Overman” piece: “Nietzsche gives a name to his anticipated overman: He calls him Zarathustra, and he names his greatest literary and philosophical work in his honor. “Zarathustra will be the creative tyrant. Having mastered himself and others, he will exuberantly and energetically command and
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Orvieto, Italy
A medieval clifftop town about an hour north of Rome. Well worth visiting. (Click on image to enlarge.)
Farm country, Illinois
Taken on the road, a picture worth 2,300 words in these days of inflation. Click for full size. (Note to self: you’re not in Europe anymore.)
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A thought about real wealth
Today I walked past a well-groomed old man driving an awesome Jaguar convertible. Jaguars are my favorite sports car, and I felt a twinge of envy. Later at a fast food restaurant, an energetic teenager before me in line was counting out his coins, unsure if he had enough to pay for a cold drink.
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