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Written by James Fairbairn on 2024-08-12 at 04:30

Anyone here read First Principles and First Values? What do you think? I’m like 65/35 agree/disagree.

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Written by James Fairbairn on 2024-08-12 at 04:30

(I’m only about a third of the way through, so that balance will probably change…)

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Written by sz_duras on 2024-08-12 at 10:27

@james the subtitle is really offputting: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism... (cosmoerotic - give me strength)

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Written by James Fairbairn on 2024-08-12 at 16:22

@sz_duras I think it’s a bit weird, but is there something in particular that irks you about that formulation?

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Written by sz_duras on 2024-08-12 at 16:24

@james how can cosmoerotics relate to any values at all?

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Written by James Fairbairn on 2024-08-12 at 16:31

@sz_duras if the idea is “be in alignment with what the process of life seeks” then human intimacy with the living world is a value? (I dunno, don’t shoot the messenger)

That’s compatible with an animist/pantheist take which I find somewhat appealing, but imo the book itself reaches for an unnecessarily human-centric telos

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Written by sz_duras on 2024-08-12 at 17:26

@james erotics is such a anthropocentric concept that the portmanteau word cosmoeroticsm is too humanistic for me…

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