Home

Worse · than · you · since · 1983

Entrées récentes · Archives · Amis · Profil

* * *
Well, between boredom and the urge to think about anything but economy...

Put the name of someone on your friends list as the answer to each question. Don't tell anyone the questions unless they agree to re-post the meme.

1. Someone who seems to have a lot of close friends. Hmmm...Dagronrat?
2. Dagronrat, of course. Without her, I wouldn't be here... Hmm...But technically, I've send a message to Sn before to get my first message from my p-uke...
3. For the sake of meme, let's said Nighty...
4.  Socchan?
5. Rae/Sn...
6. Juny...
7. Sn?
8. Hmm... Dagron, Juny, Nighty, FS, Neo, Eeveebeth...most of the people in my friendlist, I think...
9. Hmmm... Dag and/or Nighty...
10. FS, obviously...
11. Uh...well...Sn?(hides)
12. ...(plaid the fifth) :p
13. FS.
14. FS and Nighty...
15. ....I believe in the Golden rules (except for ecologist) so I pass... :p
16. FS, Nighty.
17. Juny... :3
18. Dag? Fs looks more like a queen...
19. Fs, Nighty, Candy, Eeveebeth.
20. Everyone had one...
21. Rae, Sn, Dag's p-seme...
22. Hehehe...my p-uke of course.
23. Hmm...FS would be the closer equivalent, but I don't think it's suited to define our relationship...
24. Hmmm...Socchan? (Rae is too obvious as an answer) :p XD
25. Nighty?
26. Uh...(cough) Juny?(hides)
27. Fs, Dag, Juny, Candyland.
28. Every girl in my friendlist... (What? I've a bad reputation to keep, and I'm coherent with 15) :p X)
29. Several months ago, I would have said Dag.
30. Damn, I've forgotten how annoying those stuff could be(specially for someone who had lost the habit)... Curiosity is the evil.... :p

Humeur actuelle:
bored bored
* * *
...but this entry would be essentially in french, sorry...

Read more... )

Humeur actuelle:
rejuvenated rejuvenated
Musique actuelle:
Welcome to England
* * *
Just to say that I'm still alive. Three weeks ago, I was definitly betrayed by my good old computer. Now, I should get a new one in the next weeks, but until this wonderful day, you wouldn't endure my presence very much...
But you could feel relieved (or scared, depending of your point of view), sooner or later, you would learn more about me, my little life as a book seller, and my future project...
I miss you, everyone(and I hope that you're missing me a bit... : p) Y-Y
Humeur actuelle:
drained drained
* * *
HAPPY BIRTHDAY P-UKE (I. E. Dagronrat). ^__________^

Sorry, too lazy to add sparkles in the message, and for your gift, you would have to wait a bit...^^;
...well, if by gift, you means an update or something else, related to my main business in life our commun fandom. XD;

Humeur actuelle:
happy happy
Musique actuelle:
Cynical world
* * *
I've just finished Examined life, a coherent recollection of essays written by my favorite libertarian, Robert Nozick.
Ah, if integrity and coherence are two criteriums establishing a distinction between the thinker an the sterile wanker, this book is the living proof that Nozick deserve to be put in the first area and keep outside the second one, no matters if you're sharing his perspective or not.
Unity in diversity, a thought process in movement, not the static description of a frozen platonician truth, a view of the world which is everything but chaotic and meaningless, but is still divided into several level of reality, opening rooms for difference and perspectivism, complex and deep arguments combined with thoughts-experiments listening the whispering of the concrete intuition...
This book is valuable and meaningfull, acording to the definition of those words by its author.

And, as always with this good old Robert, we couldn't remain the same after a  journey inside his soul and his endless wanderings.
No, I wasn't put inside a maze of confusion, being doomed to find a path in an absurd world, in the middle of the pieces of my shattered beliefs... Oh, it happens with some kind of philosophy book, not necessary the bad one, and we should be ready to endure this kind of crisis if we are pretending to be lover of wisdom, but it was not the case after I've reached the last page.
Examined life is a vector of change, not a tool of destruction, a new perspective forcing you to examine your own limited perspective, looking at the world outside your limited position, and changing yourself in opening your soul to new side of the reality.
Ah, reality, the core of everything, including Nozick's ethic.
Several years ago, I was still picturing the happyness as the main core, the meaning and the primary goal of human life, and even, life as a whole.
Through times, and discussion with different people(through their essays and novels) I've gradually extended my opinion, regarding this subject.
In a way, I haven't learnt anything new with this book, no, it had just forced me to looks at the deepness of my own beliefs and intuition.
Hapyness is not the source of meaning and values, but just a symptom and a judgement depending of something else, this complex web fluctuating under the world, reality. Picturing hapyness as the Alpha and the omega is superficial and lazy?
It was Spinoza's opinion.
It was Nietzsche's opinion.
It was, in a limited way, Kant's opinion, since, for him, hapyness is the goal that we should aim but NOT the only thing giving meaning and value to our short journey inside this world. How could we forget freedom and integrity, which couldn't be reduced to joy and pleasure?
It was the question raised by some utilitarianists, trying to find the nature of welfare.
It was the path opened by Bernard Williams, exploring morals through the side of the individual, and how he's creating himself with his choices and the framework of his actions and values.
Nozick had just added another drop inside the vase, allowing the flow to rises, crossing the blurry line between implicit and explicit.
Could we wish to find hapyness in a world of lies and illusions? Could we accept to spend our life, since our birth until our death, in a lotus-eater machine? What is the best choice? Struggling against yourself to become the kind of individual matching with our ideals? Or living in a fake world, where we're everything but an ideal version of ourself, even if we're believing the contrary?
No, the link to reality is still something that we're valuing, despite the pain.
Something which couldn't be reduced to lucidity. After all, it's not accidental if some fictionnal characters(such as Dostoievski's heroes or Shakespeare's one) or historical figures(such as Socrate, Einstein, Gandhi, Jesus or Beethoven) seems more real than ourselves and most of the people around us. Because reality is more than a meaningless and purposeless existence. Reality is more than a position in the space/time continuum.
From centuries, we've believed that ideals and reality were divided by a botomless gap, but maybe that we've a bridge, allowing us to cross it, instead of hesitating between the sterility of the beautiful soul and the cynism which seems to fill the real world.
Emotion, and thoughts...
Values and judgement...
The search for hapyness.
The spiritual illumination searched by poets and mystics from every religions.
Our everyday life, including something as trivial than eating...
Relationship with others, no matters if it's friendship, the building of a couple, parenthood, society or sexual relationship...
Nature, living beings, art...
The unity and the form of our lives.
Sides of reality, levels of reality... Different parts of something that we should accept, love, built, understand and become.
Different part of our lives, different part of live, different part of an examined life...
Some thinkers makes us poor, trapping us inside empty and cold concept, or betraying the ideal of reason to limit us to the superficiality and the swallowness of subjective feelings...
The true thinkers, the true philosophers, the true artistes... They makes us rich. They're giving something to us, adding something to this world, our world, pushing us to follow the same path, with our own rythm... Convincing us to leave this world, not as stealer and parasite, but in letting something behind us, something for the countless migrants which would follow us but besides all, giving something to this world...
Something that no one but us could have created, knowing that our fellows (human) beings would let their own touch to this framework...^__^

Humeur actuelle:
contemplative contemplative
Musique actuelle:
James Blunt: Wisemen
* * *
(Au cas où ils auraient loupé celui que j'ai mis sur mon profile ffnet... Alalah, c'est l'inconvénient des reviews en anonyme, on ne sait pas comment y répondre...)^^;

Bah, ça me fait plaisir de voir que cette histoire puisse susciter autant d'enthousiasme, mais pour ce qui est de la prochaine update... Honnêtement, je préfère ne rien promettre. Ces derniers jours, j'avais d'autre priorités qui m'empêchaient de me consacrer à l'écriture, et même si j'ai un peu plus de temps libre en ce moment, le chapitre en question est assez délicat à gérer, donc... Peut-être qu'une update tombera en fin de semaine, peut-être qu'il faudra attendre la semaine prochaine... De toutes façons, je préfère privilégier la qualité à la rapidité de publication.

Enfin bon, merci beaucoup pour ces reviews, j'espère que le prochain chapitre sera à la hauteur de vos attentes quand il tombera, et qu'en attendant, vous aurez vu ce message. Rassurez-vous, je suis loin, très loin d'avoir laissé tomber cette histoire, c'est plutôt le contraire... Voilà, voilà, je suis très heureux de voir que vous continuez de penser à moi, n'ayez pas peur, c'est réciproque. ;)

EDIT: Bon, après avoir reçu une nouvelle review, je crois avoir compris le problème... Je suppose que vous avez mis votre adresse mail entre parenthèse, juste après le pseudonyme avec lequel vous avez signé votre review, de manière à ce que je puisse vous répondre?
Malheureusement, j'ai l'impression que fanfiction.net a installé un système de sécurité anti-spam qui éfface automatiquement toute adresse mail dans les reviews. Ca expliquerait pourquoi votre pseudonyme est toujours suivi de deux parenthèses sans contenu, ( ), à chaque fois qu'on me signale une nouvelle review.
Si je ne me suis pas trompé, et que vous voudriez recevoir une réponse de ma part(ce que je peux parfaitement comprendre), je n'ai qu'une seule chose à vous conseiller, utiliser ce live-journal pour communiquer directement avec moi... ^^;

Humeur actuelle:
content content
* * *
I'm bored, awfully narcissist, and a Tv-tropes addict. When you mix those three facts together, what is the result?
Hehehe... I've written my own Tv-tropes entry, for my own fanfics. X)
Nah, don't worry, I haven't hacked the site and I would never do, my own tropes index would be on this lj...to be more precise, it's this entry.
Of course, I haven't included the original tropes that Aoyama had used in DC.
Is it pretentious? In a way, it is, I don't deny it... On the other hand, it is not a sin for a writer to love his own works, to the point of analyzing them, no? So, takes this as an equivalent of author's note for my fanfictions. Of course, if you haven't read them, this entry would be pretty useless for you(I. E. the majority of the people in my friendlist)... ^^;
But well, it's wanking after all...XD :p
Claude's tropes behind the cut... )

I would stop here... But who know? I could complete the list later. It's fun to search tropes in your own works, and to classify them. ^__^

Humeur actuelle:
amused amused
Musique actuelle:
Replica
* * *
Today, it's the 4-7-09...I've published the first chapter of my first official DC fanfic...the 4-7-06.
So, today, it's a birthday. The third one, to be more accurate.
Wow, three years in my favorite fandom... it seems so short when you said it... However, it seems so much, when you're looking at the contents of those years.
Eh, I've seen the birth of the aicoholics, the appearance of several of our best writers( Juny , Chitsu, Luckyladybug and Eeveebeth...), had read the old version of Encounter in Venice(and is still crying since it had vanished from the internet Y-Y), I've read Facade, since the publishing of the first chapter until the release of the last, and as such, had seen Sn's evolution from a CxA shipper to a writer with a weak spot for Ai, but mainly interessed by plot...and bashing the dope on a regular basis.
(nostalgic sight)
I've also meet awesome friends, the aicoholics as a whole, of course, but more specially Dagron and Nighty. We've shared a lots inside this tiny but active fandom, no matters if it was stories, fanart, laughs, or rants about our lovely but frustrating fandom, with its conservatism, its frozen canon filled with plot-hole and its lack of variety...
(sigh)
Three years...and we're still here, we've lost some bits of our enthusiasm in this course, but we're still trapped in the weird universe created by Aoyama.
Three years...So much...and yet, not so much...but definitly worth of it. Maybe the best ones in my whole life(yeah, I know, I'm hopeless... :p XD )
Who know what would happens in the next three years?
Oh well, as long I don't became the last aicoholic of the fandom, I suppose they wouldn't be so different. After all, new writers could appear, bringing fresh blood to this sleeping fandom, it wouldn't be the first time. Maybe they're already here, writing the future masterpiece we would enjoy, as we've enjoyed the old one.

EDIT: DAMMIT! TOO LATE! This post was officially published...one day too late...(shakes fist) Y-Y XD

Humeur actuelle:
nostalgic nostalgic
Musique actuelle:
What you don't know...
* * *
She had done Tetris Porn...I was pawned.
She had done smut between furnitures. I was pawned, once again.
And now, I've just discovered...spork x spoon x forks as a new OT3.
http://velvet-mace.livejournal.com/98822.html
But well, no matters the amount of braincells I've lost, thanks to her, her crack!smut would always brighten my mood, when I need it the most. ^__^  :3
Humeur actuelle:
crazy crazy
* * *
...and a pretty shameless one!
No, seriously, do you know many people who would uses implicit reference to Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Rand and the nominalism when they're writing yuri?Xp
A lots of people who are still using them in writing a kiss?X3
A lots of fics writers using language to criticize the limits of words...in a damn fluffy romance?
(And yeah, I know it's self-denying, or more accurately, self-effacing, but I still don't care, that's the point!)
I don't care if it's problematic with the damn specificity of the japanese language. I don't care if a lots of potential readers could find it ridiculously pretentious, or just plain weird.
...I love my own writing. ^__^
And it's not vanity, just wank, the stupid but sweet pleasure to believe that you're an unique and special snowflake, and that you don't want to be a different snowflake, even if this other snowflake is more skilled in writing.
No Rae, you don't need to point to this picture "You're unique and special...just like everyone else" XD
Oh well, fanfiction is essentially wanking, so I don't see why I should restrain myself, anyway. X)
(cough)
Yeah, I'm currently writing a chapter for an epic smut. And you know what? It's in those kind of moments that I'm just happy with myself, and don't care if my writings are flawed and too weird to get many attention from the fandom. I just love to write what I want, how I want, and feeling that I love what I've written, no matters if I find readers to enjoy it as well or not. You write for yourself, you publish to shares, readers are accidental, not substantial. ^__^
/end of the wank/

EDIT: And when I think about it... There are also schopenhauerian undertones. In a fluffy romance!
Self, I love you.
What?You've been warned, it's supposed to be a wank! Xp >D

Humeur actuelle:
geeky geeky
Musique actuelle:
Frozen
* * *
You know, I shouldn't be so pissed with this damn strike. After all, there is always two sides to one coin. I'm still trapped in my house, cut from the teachers's help, but on the other hand, studying by yourself is the best way to find strenght and motivation within yourself, the best way to learn, because it reminds you that no one could improve at your place, the best way to remember that no one but you have chosen the path you're walking on.Click for ridiculously enthusiastic ramblings... )

Humeur actuelle:
cheerful cheerful
Musique actuelle:
Hack //liminality
* * *
...I'm 25 years old, and I'm very tired...
(If you've get the joke, I dunno what I did to get you in my friendlist, but it's not enough...XD)
Click for unpopular opinion regarding strike, culture and education... )





Humeur actuelle:
bitchy bitchy
Musique actuelle:
What you don't know...
* * *
* * *
For those who have missed it...

So, if you're stalking me since days/weeks/months/years, were too shy to ask to be added in my friendlist, or if you have just missed an occasion to cross the line separating friends and unknown strangers, well, this post is for you.
Don't worry, I don't bit, the worse you're risking in this LJ is boring ramblings and aproximative english.^_-

Humeur actuelle:
apathetic apathetic
Musique actuelle:
wenn engel hassen
* * *


1. Faire une liste de 5 choses que vous pouvez voir sans vous lever :
Mon poster du Cantique des cantiques de Chagall
Ma bibliothèque littérature, juste en dessous
Ma bibliothèque philosophie/sciences humaines (en tournant la tête vers la droite)
Ma DVDthèque(en tournant la tête vers la gauche).
L'intégralité des albums de Sandman

2. Quel est le style de vos cheveux?
Chatain foncé, méchante tendance à onduler, fais d'énormes efforts pour avoir une raie, les préfère longs(mais pas trop)plutôt que courts.

3. Que portez vous en ce moment ?
...Hmmm, c'est un meme ou l'équivalent LJ d'un téléphone rose?
(Vous me direz, n'ayant qu'un seul chromosome X, ça enlève beaucoup d'intérêt à la chose... Oubliez les chemises de nuit en satin ou les sous-vétements affriolants...XD)
(toussote)
Bon, un pantalon noir, une chemise blanche mexicaine(et acheté sur place, s'il vous plait), une veste de coton commerce équitable...

4.Quelle est votre occupation?
Etudiant en philo, troisième année(enfin, deuxième troisième année... ^^; ). Ne me demandez surtout pas ce que sera ma vie au delà de la licence...Me poser la question à été à l'origine de mon précédent echéc.

5. Faites vous beaucoup la sièste ?

Assez souvent, surtout en vacances, mais je pense que mes mauvaises habitudes en matière de sommeil doivent être en cause...(J'ai choisi Claude le noctambule comme nom de plume pour une raison...)

6. Qui est la dernière personne que vous avez enlacé ?

Ma maman... (toussote)
Et en dehors de la famille...Dag, lors de notre dernière rencontre in real life. :3

7. Quelle est votre plus grosse obssession ? A quoi êtes vous complêtement accro ?
Ces temps-ci? Le libéralisme, qu'il soit politique, ethique ou économique...et par extension, les thèses économiques de l'école autrichienne(Mises et surtout Hayek). Non, ce n'est même pas pour les études ou pour jouer les intéressants, c'est réellement mon obsession du moment, et c'est hors-programme... ^^;
En position numéro 2(pour l'instant, ça remontera tôt ou tard...), l'écriture de fic. Je n'ai rien écrit dernièrement, mais les histoires continuent de dérouler leur fil dans ma tête à mes heures perdues.
En position numéro 3, la littérature, mais bon, l'obsession numéro 1 semble l'avoir éradiqué... Même si Ayn Rand(romancière et proche du libéralisme classique, faussement dénommé néo-libéralisme par les bienpensants...) pourrait bien être l'embranchement qui va m'ty ramener...

8. Quelle est la dernière chose que vous avez mangé aujourd'hui?
Un pain au raisin.

9. Quel est le dernier message que vous avez reçus ?
Euh...

10. Quels sont les site web que vous visiter tout le temps quand vous êtes connecté?
Youtube(rien de tel qu'une AMV pour commencer la journée...)
Ma friendlist
Fanfiction.net, section DC/MK
Fanficrants
Wikipedia(eh oui...)

11. Quel est la dernière chose que vous avez acheté?
Mes cigarettes...

12. Qu'écoutez vous en ce moment ?
Koi wa thrill schock, suspense...version anglaise.

13. A quoi pensez-vous avant de vous coucher?
Ces temps-ci? J'essaye d'assimiler les thèses des auteurs que j'ai lu, ou je m'imagine en train de les expliquer à quelqu'un(vous pouvez trouver ça bizarre, mais je part du principe qu'on n'a réellement compris une chose qu'à partir du moment où on parvient à l'expliquer à un néophyte sans l'embrouiller...et sans s'embrouiller).
Sinon, je tends à m'enfoncer dans les méandres de mon imagination et à (re)vivre les scènes que j'ai écrit/envisage d'écrire dans mes fanfictions. Considerez moi comme un obsédé...ou un adepte de la méthode Stanislavsky en écriture. Xp

14. Quel est votre cuisine/plat préferé ?
Cuisine chinoise et sandwich.

15. Quel est votre temps préferé et pourquoi?
Ciel grisâtre, mais sans pluie, avec une température fraiche mais pas trop. Non, je ne suis pas un EMO qui souhaite que le climat reflète son désequilibre et son désespoir intérieur...c'est juste que je préfère la fraicheur à la canicule, et qu'un ciel gris me donne une impression de calme et de serenité.

16. Si vous pouvez jouer d’un instrument de musique lequel choisiriez-vous?
Piano...

17. Comment allez-vous?
Bah...Plutôt bien, l'enthousiasme pour le domaine que je suis en train de découvrir n'a pas baissé, et bizarrement, ça semble avoir un impact positif sur mon estime personnel en tant qu'auteur de fic(demandez pas, dittes-vous juste que ma logique est décalé par rapport à celle de la plupart des gens...XD;).^__^

18. Si vous devriez dire quelque chose à quelqu’un en ce moment ce serait quoi ?
Je passe...

19.
Dites quelque chose a la personne qui vous a tagguer.
Euh...Bonne chance pour les rattrapages?XD
Sinon...Bah, ne te décourage pas pour la fac, après le temps d'adaptation et si tu as trouvé la bonne voie(celle qui te correspond) alors tout ira bien.

Je ne taguerais personne, flemme de retraduire le meme en anglais, et la majorité des francophones de ma friendlist on déjà été tagué... Enfin, si Dag, Nighty(ou Jeva?) veulent le prendre, elle sont libres...

Humeur actuelle:
calm calm
Musique actuelle:
Read the meme to know it...
* * *
Found in [info]serria 's lj...

Everyone has a character they feel connected to, whether it be in a book, movie, show or video game. But how do others perceive you? Have your f-list tell you a character they see you as, and maybe even explain why.

Humeur actuelle:
curious curious
* * *
I've nearly finished another chapter for one of my epics WIP about my favorite threesome, if everything is fine, it would be posted tonight. ^__^
Ah, it feels so good when you're writing again after a long hiatus, and it's definitly the best cure to self-esteem problems which tends to bothers whinning aspiring writers, such as myself!Xp
Boring ramblings about my own writing behind the cut... )
And to talks about something else...I've finally decided to try RP... Who would have thought? Not me, several months, or even several days ago...^^;
But well, we should change and learn to expand our horizon. :D

Humeur actuelle:
happy happy
Musique actuelle:
Knocking at the heaven's door...(A. Lavigne's version, so shoot me!Xp)
* * *
I've just finished to read Anarchy, state and utopia by Robert Nozick.
Ah, I think that I've found another thinker to fanboy.
My God, Nozick is trully the living nightmare of every left-wing extremists(well, not anymore since he's dead, but you get what I mean, right?).XD
I would have never imagined such a shameless attorney for capitalism and free market.
Distributive justice? No matters if it's based on morality, the contribution to society, equality, or the wellfare of the poors? He refute it without a bit of remorse.
The fact that it would necessary condone social unequality? He's asking why it's supposed to be a problem...XD
Justice? He's picturing it as a business which could works in the same way that insurance companies. The idea that human reproduction could be swallowed in the economic world? It didn't bothered him too much..if not at all.
(shakes head)
As I've said shameless...and twisted enough to defend his point of view with arguments which makes sense.
Arguments which are, sometimes, surprising. The logic of gift is one of the main argument used by Nozick to refute distributive justice... When you're used to picture capitalists as cynical jerks who couldn't conceive any human motives outside of self-interest...O_o
I wouldn't said that anyone reading Nozick would become a convinced libertarian(it didn't work with me), but it's clear, at least for me, that the man is making several points that you couldnt handwave so easyly...
(His critics of Rawls, for example, are far to be groundless...and we could said the same thing with his refutation of Marx's economical theories)
A disturbing author on many levels... After all, if he was just a cynical and inhuman attorney of human exploitation, it would be enough to bothers a lots of readers...but sorrowfully, instead of the moral monster that one could think, it's a lover of freedom and a defender of individual rights, with a complex view about human nature.
Surprisingly, he's even challenging Singer on his own field, in raising the complex question of human responsability towards animals.
In fact, the man would even gives headache to a lots of left-wing extremist in my native country... A shameless capitalist...who is more radical that any of them on the area of freedom, ethic and individual rights?Does not compute.XD;:
Now, I'm curious to see his others books... More specially the one about identity(since, according to the parts quoted by Parfit, in his own book, Nozick was acknolwedging the reductionnist challenge...). I would love to see how it could be coherent with his concept of the separateness of person, which is the main core of his whole ethical and political philosophy.
By the way, it's curious, but I get the feeling that british(and american) philosophers are more open-minded that ours... No matters if it's Williams, Dworkin, Parfit or Nozick, they're always recognizing their antagonist's strenght, and no matters the difference of opinions on essential subject, they're still helping and respecting each others. At least, it's the feelings that I've get until now, when I see how they're acknolwedging their intellectual debts to their opponents.
Outside of reading business... My damn flu is finally coming behind me, I think that tomorrow, I would be definitly cured. ^___^
And with my mind free of illness, I wouldn't have any kind of excuse to procrastinate in fics writing.X3
(Hey, I've once said that, this year, my inner writer would tops so...Xp)

Humeur actuelle:
calm calm
Musique actuelle:
Get wild
* * *
I've finally finished Reasons and Persons, the masterpiece and the central book of the british philosopher, Derek Parfit.
Reading it was definitly worth of it. It's been a while since a philosophy book had moved me and fascinated me so much. An author worth to match with Spinoza and Nietzsche in my inner library, and one of those genius that constitute an obvious answer to my eternal and empty question "Why am I chosing philosophy as my field of study?". ^__^
The most moving part of the book was specially the third one. Finally, I've found a clear and convincing formulation of my own convictions about identity, and I could fully acknolwedge that, yes, I'm a reductionnist.
Identity doesn't matters, only the relation R, and the self is not a separatly existing entity but a fictionnal entity with a relative value. The self is not an all-or-nothing cartesian ego, but a scale with an infinity of degree.
(Nah, I'm not mad...Just too lazy to reformulate complex arguments and several thoughts-experiences!)Xp
...
(But if someone is interessed, you could always ask for more detailled explanations...But don't complain after...XD)
And yeah, a materialist (or at least, non-religious) conception of the soul which makes sense and is not deprived of poetic beauty.
By the way, it's kind of funny... Western writers such as Hume, Parfit or Williams are the ones helping me to understand the budhist view of the world. Now, I can finally understand the difference between rebirth and reincarnation, and how Buddha was not self-denying when he was explaining that the self is nothing but an illusion.
It's funny, 'cause those westerners authors were not influenced at all by budhism(Parfit acknowledge that we could find a strong commun ground between his view and Buddha's one, but it's obvious that he had reached in own conclusion in a western manner, and with the influence of western conceptions of the world).
Well, it's kind of comforting to know that the gap between different cultures is not so deep that one could think, if he's restraining himself to a superficial sight.
Parfit acknolwedge that his conclusion and the commun sense are kind of mutually exclusive at the first sight(not that his conclusion is not convincing, it's quasi-airtight, but it's going against our deepest desire and oldest habits of thinking), but he's still optimistic about the positive effect that it would have on the long run, for those who are accepting it.
I think that I'm partly agreing with him. Like him, moving the self from an absolute category to a relative one seemed like a liberation, more that anything else.
We're not trapped in a rigid and monolithic Ego until the rest of our lives, and without using an empty and unconvincing concept such as Sartre's conception of the self.
As if it was not enough, a conception which could be a convincing answer to the paradox of redemption!
(And the reductionnist view explain in a wonderful manner my love for character development in fanfiction and why I'm disliking some kind of fics... What? Geek, me? Yeah, always...XD)
On the other hand, the moral conclusion that Parfit is building on his reductionnist view is still eerie... In fact, I could even said that it sounds awfully like a repugnant conclusion for me(private joke, you should read the book to get it!Xp)
After all, it's more or less creating a new ground for duty toward ourselves, and Parfit is honest enough to recognize that he's giving ammos to paternalism...which is more than disturbing for me.^^;
Maybe that's my liberal self's rebellion but still... It's specially disturbing when you're combining this conclusion with Parfit's view about responsability. An infinite responsability... In fact, an act could be morally wrong, despite the fact that its negative effect are too small to be perceived by a conscious being.
(It sounds absurd? Sorrowfully... It's not when you're understanding Parfit's arguments, which are, once again, quasi-airtight).
I suppose that our good old Derek could admit limitations in the application of his own conceptions of Good. After all, he's acknolwedging that his moral theory could be partly self-effacing. But it' still looks like a flaw, for me... And it puts some limits to my enthusiasm.^^;
But well, I think that it's better when a philosopher is offering reasons to be suspicious toward him, instead of picturing him as a spiritual master, with an perfect and definitive answer for every questions. At least, it's opening a ground for future thoughts in the philosophy field, in general, and the field of non-religious Ethics in particular. One discipline which would never age, and another one who is still young, and as such, pregnant with infinite possibilities that we couldn't predict now. ^__^
And well, it's once again funny to see how the good old Kant could be so fascinating when you're looking at him throught a new pair of looking glasses. At least, the good old kantian test seems more convincing with Parfit's re-interpretation.
Now, let's study Bernad Williams, a lovable but sometimes irritating moralist. X3
/End of the boring ramblings/
By the way... My exams are finally behind me. No matters the result, it's liberating, and I could enjoy some well-deserved holydays. I think that I would uses them to update some WIP. ^__^
Me? I'm happy... So happy... I'm even thinking that I could have a goal for my further future. After all, despite my difficulties, my love for my major is still alive, and growning up with times. Who know? Maybe that becoming a teacher is not so far from my capacities? We would see, and in the worse case, litterature could be a good alternative.

Humeur actuelle:
excited excited
Musique actuelle:
Afraid
* * *
Stolen from [info]serria 
1) Pick up to 15 pairings you like
2) Describe them in up to 15 words
3) Get your friends to guess

1)One sinner, one fallen angel, both atoners.
2)Both have opposite attitude in front of danger and the consequences of their acts, both are wrong, together they could find the good way.
3)Both are beyond Good and Evil, both are radical consequencialists. On the physical area, both are opposite, on the values area, each one could be pictured as the reflection of the other...and it's well know, a reflection is inversed compared to the original.
4)They're both thinking that their relationship was an error mades by two childs trying to makes an adult choice...Sorrowfully for everyone, there is still a witness of this choice, a child.
5)They don't need each others, and they're fine with that. Their temper are opposite, for the better and the worse.
6)The hunter and his most cherished prey.
7)Both childs, and both girls, but one is still in the world of childhood, when the others was trapped too soon in the one of adulthood.
8)Both are enduring the burden that their respective parents have put on their shoulders, one could be seen as a clear sky, the other one as the clouds putting shades of grey in this sky.
9)The master and her slave...and it's sometimes hard to know who is having which role.
10)He's searching something, his identity...and he had never understood that his goal was right in front of him, embodied by the one giving a continuity and a meaning to his life.
11)God and her last temptation(yes, I've used her on purpose).
12)If we were slashing their respective favorite fictionnal character, the result wouldn't be so different.
13)He's doomed to the most painful choice, evolves or die, she was his last tentative to avoid this choice...but chosing her, wasn't it a way to makes this choice?
14)The most feminine is not necessary the woman in the relationship.
15)They're both in my friendlist and one of them would kill me to have put her in the list...or she would just roll her eyes.

Ok, I haven't respected the exact amount of words, but I'm too lazy to rewrite it now it's finished...and I've always hate this kind of challenge(being limited to an EXACT amount of words to express yourself). At least, it was short, ne? Xp

Humeur actuelle:
calm calm
Musique actuelle:
Hot from Avril Lavigne(yeah, I'm shameless sometimes)
* * *

Previous

Publicité