This picture makes me =)
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Hannah's Scribbles
Quote my favorite line and I will love you forever.
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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I read Kurt Vonnegut and now I’m pondering, What does it mean “to live”?
Let’s not hold one another back from what we want to pursue in life.
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My final paper, with the lofty title of “Immanuel Kant, Moral Law & Human Purpose: an Examination of Socio-political & Moral Theory,” is getting old.
Look where my headings began to devolve:
- On Moral Law
- Duty and the good will
- Duty and happiness
- The Purpose of Mankind
- Peace and enlightenment
- Politics in Kant-ext
- Don’t dissent
- duty divorces happiness: what a shock
- No revolutions!
- Reason trumps everything so suck it
Dystopias should be insurgent. They should force readers to question who they are, what their society is like, and what they take for granted. A good dystopia will illuminate the horrors right before our eyes, and one can hope that if it does its job well, it will create empathy and humanity in world that is sorely lacking.
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Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
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No idea so elevates the human mind and animates it even to inspiration as that of a pure moral disposition, revering duty above all else, struggling with the countless ills of life and even with its most seductive allurements and yet overcoming them… if it became a principle of private and public instruction always to make use of this [disposition], human morality would soon be better off.
— Immanuel Kant, On the Common Saying (1793)
See? You don’t need the promise of heaven or happiness to be a moral person, but you still need to study the theory instead of arbitrarily determining practical cases of morality.
