Philosophers often try to answer ethical questions like, "Are you obligated to flip the switch?" "Is abortion permissible, given..." "How important is it to keep your promises?" I do not want to write about these topics, not exactly. I'd rather discuss questions like, how would it change your life if you found out you were going to die in a month? What would you do differently? What does this reveal about the way you've been living your life, and the order of your soul? What does this mean for those of us who haven't yet realized that death is, indeed, coming for us to?
I would rather write about what happens when one's central goals become impossible to achieve - whether it's failing out of a chosen career (professional academic, concert pianist, whatever), or losing your love (whether it's death or maybe the fact that they were just never that into you), or a legislative battle, or whatever. I want to write about the lingering possibility of failure that hovers over all our projects, and what it is to live with that.
(on a similar note, I want to write about what it means for us that we may, indeed, never really have that good an understanding of the people around us - or even ourselves - what it means that we may be drastically wrong about these things).
I want to write about how to both agree and disagree with another, what an honorable enemy might be, the difference between treating others as mere means, and as ends in themselves, and the various distortions and misconceptions this distinction has been subject to.
that's all for now.
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And if you were to do this, you'd be writing about the liberal-individualist subject from the perspective of liberal-individualist subjectivity. Just saying ;)
Is there something else to write about?
:P
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