Steven @true_concinnity
Polytheist | Pagan | Student of Plato | Army vet theanalyticpagan.com Joined March 2020-
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If pain is inherently bad, is the capacity to feel pain inherently morally significant?
Small piece on Dickinson: theanalyticpagan.com/2024/04/29/the…
My entire pagan worldview condenses into and unfolds from a single concept, which can be expressed in a single proposition, which can be deduced in a single argument.
It is sometimes wondered what polytheists are to do with seemingly monotheistic religious experiences, such as wherein Jesus declares the truth of Christianity. But this is just mythic literalism.
Masterful class today from @EPButler, such an inspiring, edifying teacher. 'Polytheism in Greek Philosophy II' y'all, it's so good 🙏
Settling into the new house, everything got delivered yesterday. Gonna have an office, a library, and a bar downstairs 😄
Gah, I love this. Whatever field this is, it's what I could do the rest of my life. Well done @timmodryoid, so much to consider!
Gah, I love this. Whatever field this is, it's what I could do the rest of my life. Well done @timmodryoid, so much to consider!
Last night here. Became a dad here, deployed, grew up so much. Wouldn't change any of it. So long Texas. ✌️
Don't lie... Have you ever finished a rubix cube? Like, ALL the sides?
Iamblichus identifies "the first principle in us" with "the essential striving of the soul towards the Good," and says it is in this that we have indivisible "contact" (συναφή) with Gods, (De Myst. I.3).
How do we go about getting a Polytheism article added to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy?
If you're an epistemologist in the streets, what does that make you in the sheets?
My house is upside down right now lol, cleaning, and organizing for the movers on Monday. Decided I couldn't leave any book, so they're all coming with me 😄😄
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14K Followers 75 Following This is my personal account. My TA (@sungyak) posts here mostly. I enjoy writing, teaching, and playing the organ.@true_concinnity That's what I see Epicureanism positing. The good satisfies the will, the bad doesn't. The affects of good and evil are intrinsically good and bad respectively, i.e. inherently evaluative, liking and disliking,
@true_concinnity the affects of pleasure and pain* not good and evil, my apologies. This is especially important, good and bad as desirable and undesirable, being the framework the various oughts are born in
@true_concinnity but that doesn't mean that all pleasures are to be chosen (singular pleasures having in common pleasure itself) and all pains are to be avoided (singular pains having in common pain itself),
@true_concinnity with self-reflexivity qua virtue, prudence, helping consciousness extend itself and evaluate each pleasure and each pain on a timeframe. The affects of pleasure and pain are also present in self reflexivity, evaluating pleasures and pains as worthy or not of being chosen
@true_concinnity Pleasure and pain are signals, the faculty of feeling them a compass, but singular pleasures and singular pains are assessed by the primordial affects of positive and negative evaluation in self-reflexive consciousness (pleasure and pain).
@true_concinnity Pain is not inherently bad. It's just a signal that you're on the wrong track.
@true_concinnity True. Bad could be distinguished from evil I suppose, but more thought would need to be spent on their kinship. The way I think I am mentally picturing pain is a report that good order is being disturbed. Which would I think be undesirable.
@true_concinnity Growing up being taught a literal Eden, this kind of thing drove me nuts. A pain-free existence as "the way it should be" in the physical world, & yet pain is intrinsic to that world. Such a relief to establish "the way it should be" for humanity as pleasure balanced by pain.
@true_concinnity I would say instead that pain is a kind of visceral sense rather than an evil in and of itself. We could say it is a sense of physical distortions of good maybe?
@true_concinnity Pain isn't inherently bad. It's a warning from the body that is quite necessary.
@true_concinnity What if the capacity to feel pain is just the most primitive level of the ability to detect evil omens in general?
@true_concinnity Showing empathy involves giving special consideration to the suffering of others, which carries a moral justification. For instance, when an individual expresses feeling distressed by a certain social issue, it signals a call to action.
@true_concinnity Depends a lot on what you mean by “bad” here.
@true_concinnity I'm having trouble getting to pain being inherently bad, man, so I guess I ain't thought much about this.
It's so much easier to focus on publishing when I'm getting paid for it.
@SpeedWatkins Getting Connor McGregor vibes here.
@true_concinnity (I tend to be compulsive/obsessive when things interest me.)