• Romanticism and Livestock Farming

  

  Those who speak positively about livestock farming are often accused of having fallen into an insidious ‘Romanticism’. They view these idyllic pastoral scenes with overly-sentimental eyes, and this clouds their judgement. Is this true? If it were, it might be a problem: it is important to see things clearly – undistorted – and sentimentalism is one of the many distortions of thought that can creep in, like prejudice and other forms of bias. […]

  drtobybetenson

  21st Dec 2023

  Philosophy

  Agriculture, Cynicism, Environment, Ethics, Farming, Kierkegaard, Livestock, Metaethics, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Raimond Gaita, Romanticism, Socrates, Wittgenstein

• Ivan Karamazov is a Hopeless Romantic

  

  Ivan Karamazov, from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, is often paraded across the philosophical literature on the problem of evil, made to stand as an example of a particular kind of argument from evil, one that is concerned not with the quantity or severity of evil in this world but with a certain qualitative type of evil. I think Ivan is often misunderstood. Or rather, Dostoevsky is often misunderstood, in the way that Ivan is put to use in the context of the philosophy of religion. […]

  drtobybetenson

  7th Nov 2023

  Philosophy

  Anti-Theodicy, Atheism, Camus, Christianity, Dostoevsky, Ethics, Ivan Karamazov, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Romanticism, The Brothers Karamazov, The Problem of Evil, Theism, Theodicy

A Student of Socrates

Tag: Romanticism