Ben Gross
@bengrossbg
Currently reading: Imperial Democracy by Earnest R. May + Life’s Dominion by Ronald Dworkin. mutuals: @postmodernlib
Alright, alright. I wrote a sbstck post about none other than John Rawls. Link in bio!
The arrogance of this one family and the damage it has done to our country helps you understand why the early historians of the collapse of the Roman Republic spent so much time harping on the moral degeneration of the nation’s elites.
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party: "Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand." "James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years." "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack…
Fellas, is it gay to want your environment to be pleasant?
Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a…
for reasons like the reasons B. Williams rejected utilitarianism: bc living as though shrimp and humans had the same kind of value would create a life that wasn't meaningfully human, and I think right action is right because of its connection to the distinctly human form of life.
Maybe I’ll write a post about morality and shrimp, that seems to be a popular topic these days.
There are parts of this country that are beautiful beyond words.
i don't hate joe lieberman because he endorsed mccain, i hate him because he is the only reason we don't have a public option.
Every liberal democrat says "Americans must put Country over Party" until it comes to Joe Lieberman.
I’ll never understand why physicists look at philosophers interested in their work with disdain when an extremely cursory walk-through of the history of physics shows that the greats of the field were deeply invested in philosophical discourse. It just seems… incurious?
One time, a physicist I know dismissed the entire field of philosophy with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.”
The rise of Dopamine Culture: PHILOSOPHY: Dialogue -> Book -> Journal Article
Reminds me of this graphic from @tedgioia
I am a proud owner of the issue of Philosophy and Public Affairs with Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” paper in it.
