Tag: Middlemarch

• “Peacemakers” sidebar: Eliot’s egoic ontology

  To each soul belongeth another world; to each soul is every other soul a back-world. (Nietzsche) Eliot repeatedly returns to the observation that individuals’ sense of the world—from morality to category to truth—is by default egocentric. This, in my read, is a logical extension of pragmatism from the level of cultural relevance to individual relevance.…

  suspendedreason

  April 24, 2023

  Blog

  egoic ontology, George Eliot, meaning, Middlemarch, perception, pragmatism, provincialism, strategic conceptualization

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 2: Polytheism & an Ecology of Practice

  Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.Water came to rebuke the too clear water.One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a rippleShook whatever it was lay there at bottom,Blurred it, blotted it…

  suspendedreason

  April 14, 2023

  Essays

  Bruce Lee, cognitive science, David Chapman, ecology of practice, Erving Goffman, fitness, frame problem, George Eliot, Herman Melville, heuristics, Hubert Dreyfus, Jake Orthwein, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, maps, metarationality, metasystematicity, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, mood, mood affiliation, No Free Lunch Theorem, PIG optimality, postrationalism, postrationality, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rationality, Sarah Perry