E M Forster

[@MyMomSaysImKeen]

E. M. Forster is wrote my favorite book / short story (The Machine Stops). It feels eerily prophetic at times, especially wit the author predicting flight, teleconferencing, technological addiction & dependance

[@thattimestampguy]

2:25 Dissertation on Boredome 5:00 Aristocrat Salons. 5:56 1920s - Intellectuals begin to be seen as Teasonous 🧐 13:45 The Ideal; Nature and Being. 16:53 “You could have been….” Yeah maybe “but my experience is.” 18:19 A wide ocean of choice 🌊 (narrowed by One’s Way of Being, Capabilities, what one can be vs what one can’t be through means and resources) 20:37 Bloomsbury Group. - Hedonistic - Backyard Lemonade - Including: John Meynard Keynes 21:55 G.E. Moore _Principia Ethica_ (1903) What is Good For It’s Own Sake, Essentially Good. 22:55 Instrumental Goods • Computer 💻 • Money 💵 • College Classes 30:28 Thriving, Flourishing 30:50 Glorify God 31:20 Personal Affections, Love, Friendship. Appreciation. 32:26 States of Conciousness. 33:05 The Desire Justifies The Desiring (The End Justifies The Journey?) 35:27 I want to…. 36:18 They Opposed - Faith - Patriotism - Traditional Moral Ideals 37:07 Funeral ⚰️ 37:39 + Self-Control + To Devote To An Ideal + Faith Hope Charity + Putting Others Ahead Of Yourself + Self-Sacrifice 38:10 39:13 Mocking People From The Past. 41:28 “I do not believe in Belief.” - E.M. Forster 43:28 Pacifism. 44:03 Lytton Strachey 44:50 Friendship over Country for Foster 46:12 Forester v. Kipling

[@FatiqUImami]

You are to become the person you are " I think, we can relate to the social media phenomenon, where people want to be like others.

[@Caperhere]

I’m 61 years old, and have the distinct feeling fascism is again on the rise, beginning in , and spreading from, the US.

[@rgaleny]

If the meaning of life is relative, as there are rather meanings to life. THE GOOD is relative to situations and tastes too. JUSTICE as an end in itself is good for whom?

[@ScarfaceFranckRibery]

How is this about e. M forster?

[@bolosweet]

That chair is intrinsically evil

[@rgaleny]

Imagine a heavenly library with angels doing research. If a greater angel came in and drove out all the angels who did work to please others or did work only to advance themselves, the library would be considerably emptier, but not completely empty. There wold remain the Angels who are there do get it right for it's own sake.

[@johnk.lindgren5940]

That chair is a killer!

[@infinitafenix3153]

What about E.M Foster?

[@rgaleny]

Agape, Phelia, Eros. The Greeks looked at love this way. Eros is the love of pleasures, like donuts and sex, and cars and cloths and winning, then, Phelia is the love of friends and family and such, Agape is the love of the Good the right the just the true. And when they are in conflict you get Drama!

[@rgaleny]

There is no good but pleasure, there is no evil but pain. Hobbs. "There is nothing either good or bad but that thinking makes it so." Hamlet.

[@agustinpinto761]

+Robert Galletta NO ESTOY DE ACUERDO CON HAMLET NO ES SOLO CUESTION DE PENSAMIENTO SINO DE REALIDAD,SI LA CONDUCTA DELIBERADA HACE DAÑOS A LOS OTROS ESE SERIA EL MAL OPINO DE CHILE

[@Ughhgffhhhffff]

Isn't Nietzsche misquoted? Didn't Nietzsche say more something along the lines of "You are what you will become."? And didn't he mean by that all things are identified by their final act or form? If I live my whole life as a carpenter but at the end of my life decide to become a baker, Nietzsche would say I was a baker, am a baker and will always be a baker. Fatalism, I guess. And isn't fatalism most often used as an example of how philosophy could possible have bad consequences for people, because a lot of people misinterpret it as that makes every decision you make useless? But I don't remember Nietzsche associating this thing with innner nature, I've only read a few of his books and he writes chaotically and contradicts himself and etc. etc. etc. so I dunno

[@coreolis7]

these are simplistic explanations, not a higher level university course

[@Munedawg]

Survey courses are simplistic.

[@rgaleny]

Maximize your utility !

[@SvetlanaMinina]

Whenever I read Nietzsche, I couldn't help but feel, like he is manic temperament,like he is stronger/faster than most people, seems like all he want to do is be himself,be different than most, therefore his obsession with overman/superman and the death of God. Faith in God more often than not helps depressed/neurotic/desperate people,it doesn't seat well in people,who are closer to manic/extraverted end of the spectrum

[@rgaleny]

Alister Crowley became the person he was. We need useful ideals

[@drdbinds]

Maybe less time on nazi accents and health food would have meant we got to see the last dozen slides with some quality time...