The previous post, together with remarks in this journal
on April 3-5, 2013 — the dates of a CUNY philosophy
conference — suggests a look at today's New York Times
philosophy column "The Stone."
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The challenges of this enterprise go beyond merely finding the rhetorical and material resources to brush deception aside. To be a participant in a good-enough democratic polis is a perpetual project that requires taking seriously one’s abiding and evolving tastes and interests and working without surcease to create an ever-expanding social and linguistic space for every individual who arrives on our shores, or at our borders, to pursue happiness. The authors are philosophy professors: Nancy Bauer at Tufts University; Alice Crary at the University of Oxford; and Sandra Laugier at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. |
Related material about the film referenced in today's previous post —
Happy birthday, LiLo.