Después de leer #FilosofiaDelDerecho de #Hegel, entiendo que la #voluntad es anterior a la #sabiduría en cuanto a relacionado con el yo, siguiendo la tradición de la #phronesis.
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@mboix84.bsky.socialDespués de leer #FilosofiaDelDerecho de #Hegel, entiendo que la #voluntad es anterior a la #sabiduría en cuanto a relacionado con el yo, siguiendo la tradición de la #phronesis.
@gerrit82.bsky.socialEvery gun that is made,
every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies,
in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Address,
"The Chance for Peace,"
April 16, 1953
#phronesis
📸 cc in ALT
@gerrit82.bsky.socialQuestions for a Sage:
Thales of Miletus, c. 500 BCE
What is difficult?
To know oneself
What is easy?
To give advice to another
What is pleasant?
Success
What is divine?
That which has neither beginning nor end.
The weirdest thing?
An aged tyrant
(As relevant as ever.)
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialMost people do not take heed of the things they find
nor do they grasp them even when
they have learned about them,
although they think they do.
Heraclitus 500 BCE Fr 57
Intellectual humility is needed to grasp things:
being
open-minded
curious
realistic
teachable.
#phronesis #mind-in-nature
cc ALT
@gerrit82.bsky.socialWe're on the precipice of the Seven Monkeys phase
in the climate crisis. Grace Grothaus is a York U researcher working on wearable AQ sensors.
Our house is learning to check the AQM on summer days.
We'd be early adopters like we were with masks.
#phronesis #mind-in-nature
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
@gerrit82.bsky.social"Ai Ai Ai"
🖌️ Madam & Eve, by Stephen Francis & Rico
Daily Maverick, South Africa, 25 Sep 2026
#AI #phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialmachine learning, that elites use to steal people's work, art, ideas, along with their clean air, water, land, electricity, etc. through their data centres.
Awakening to "AI" exploitation is paradigmatic of learning that corporate capitalism steals everything they have from individuals.
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialMarketing takes a real thing then sells it with abstractions:
machine learning becomes "AI," now "super" intelligence. 🙃
Conscientization (consciousness raising, awakening)
reverse engineers marketing BS.
People become aware (woke, eh 😆)
that "AI" is an abstraction of a real thing, ...
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialIt is hard to fight against impulsive desire.
Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus 500 BCE Fragment 51
One of the hardest tasks in parenting
is teaching kids delayed gratification.
(Poverty sure helped us. 😆)
Worth it b/c it's a big part of self-control.
#phronesis
📸 cc ALT
@gerrit82.bsky.social😎 "Animal-friendly designers are creating bespoke structures for specific creatures. From a bat home in the UK countryside to a multi-species refuge in the Catskills, here are eight cleverly designed wildlife havens." Clare Dowdy
#phronesis #mind-in-nature
@gerrit82.bsky.socialA greater self-reliance must work a revolution
in all the offices & relations of [humans]:
in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits;
their modes of living; their association; in their property;
in their speculative views.
🖋️ Emerson, Self-Reliance
📸 Rosie the Riveter
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialTwo AI creatures, one an AI actor & the other an AI interviewer, appear on a TV show. One glitches & starts speaking Chinese.
The other keeps on spouting right wing memes & nonsense. Which one is worse?
Tough call, both are a planetary danger. 👽⚡👽 🤦♂️😆
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialYe ancient gods! 😳 17+ tsp p.d!
"The US recommends consuming fewer than 12 teaspoons of added sugar. The UK, less than 7 teaspoons of sugars per day. In reality US adults eat more than 16-17 teaspoons a day." Melissa Hogenboom, abbr.
Not our house. Yours?
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialEvery beast is driven to pasture by a blow.
Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE, Fragment 41
I think of the worthwhile lessons I have learned in life.
Of how much external pressure was needed to get going.
How much nudging, course-correction was needed
to keep going in the right direction.
#phronesis #antiquity
@gerrit82.bsky.socialA good overview of the super EL Nino's likely effects across the globe until May 2027. Canada and the US are expected to get less snow. Less to shovel, but it doesn't bode well for snow packs, spring run-offs, or our rivers & dams.
#mind-in-nature #phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialThe problem with the climate crisis is that it's so big,
people struggle to imagine it. In comes this reverse time capsule in Bainbridge, WA, to help folks who sit on the bench picture the future.
#climate #phronesis #mind-in-nature
@gerrit82.bsky.social 🤠 Here's some practical wisdom from a doctor with wilderness experience on staying healthy in the great outdoors.
If you've spent time under canvas, bundu bashing, or grunting through the bush on foot, this advice will be familiar. 🧭 😁
#phronesis #mind-in-nature
@gerrit82.bsky.socialDoes #democracy depend on reading?
Democracy depends on an informed citizenry
that has enough practical wisdom.
Does that require reading?
In #antiquity, only Athenian elites & merchants could read, yet Athens was a democracy. How good? Well, ours? 🤔
#phronesis
@gerrit82.bsky.socialZeus ordered the goddesses to appear
before Paris to judge.
Hera bribed him with the kingship of Eurasia;
Athena, wisdom & war skills;
Aphrodite, the world’s most beautiful woman -
Helen of Sparta, wife of king Menelaus.
Paris chose poorly. And destroyed his world.
@gerrit82.bsky.socialOrigin of Sleeping Beauty’s poisoned apple:
In Stephen Fry’s Troy, the prologue tells the (misogynist) myth of the wedding of Thetis & Peleus, where Eris (Strive)
showed uninvited & offered a golden apple
to the fairest of Hera, Athena, Aphrodite.
Discord ensued.
