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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 4d

when we recognize others as having the right to make certain kinds of moves within their speech-community; or when we give a reason to another person to explain or to justify what we are doing; or when we give an account of what we are doing to others that we think affirms our reasons for doing it.

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 4d

We locate ourselves in #SocialSpace" when we reason in various ways; or when we assume various roles; or when we demand a certain type of treatment because of who we think we are; or when we see some forms of behavior as appropriate to the type of person we think ourselves to be;

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 4d

Self-consciousness on the Hegelian model is not the awareness of a set of internal objects (sensations, mental occurrences, representations), but rather the assumption of a position in "social space".

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 5d

In carrying the kingdom of virtue in his heart alone, Christ relinquished actual life in favour of another possible life. This severance from happiness took the shape of a war on impulse, which passed through innumerable brutal conflicts unleashing atrocities and devastations.
#Hegel
#RichardBourke

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 6d

On a common understanding of #persistence, something persists if, somehow or other, it exists at various times. The three rival modes of persistence are #endurance, #perdurance, and #exdurance.

#PhilosophyOfTime
#YuriBalashov

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 7d

After fifty years of the #AgeOfEnlightenment, old superstitions had lost their force – a fact of importance in producing the #FrenchRevolution.

This same day, September 5, was the first day of the #ReignOfTerror.

#R.R.Palmer
#TwelveWhoRuled

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 7d

Toward noon on September 5, 1793, as the crowds were gathering before the city hall, a great darkness settled down upon Paris due to an #eclipse of the sun. The Parisians, whose grandfathers would probably have been struck with fear, laughed at it and proceeded with their business.

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 11d

The revenue of the early modern state from levies on land implied attaching every parcel of taxable property to an individual responsible for paying the tax on it. As straightforward as this procedure seems in the context of the modern state, its achievement was enormously difficult.

#JamesCScott

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 12d

There are always alternatives in politics, and the better ones, such as Ukrainian resistance, will have to be affirmed. If we give up on the ethics at a time of such clear moral choices, we will be giving in to those who say that nothing is true, and therefore everything is permitted.
#TimothySnyder

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 13d

I offer in the #Prolegomena such a plan of a general critique of pure reason which is sketched out after an #analytical method, while the #Critique itself had to be executed in the #synthetical style, so the science may present all its articulations in their natural combination.

#ImmanuelKant

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 14d

This change in nature of bodies happens sometimes to some objects: Why may it not happen always, and with regard to all objects? What logic, what process of argument secures you against this supposition? I want to learn the foundation of this inference. No enquiry has removed this difficulty yet.

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 14d

A successful #LinearGrouping. The eye might easily be led across and out; however, the line of transition pauses first at the standing figure and then at the less-defined man in the rear. Thus, we are led across and back in an elliptical line of movement.

#Rembrandt
#TheSyndics
#HenryRankinPoore

In one of the greatest of Rembrandt’s portrait groups, “The Syndics,” he was faced with the problem of placing six figures. Four are seated at the far side of a table looking towards us ; the fifth, on the near side, rises and looks at us. His head, higher than those of the row of four, breaks this line of formality; but the depth and perspective of the picture is not achieved until a figure standing in the background is added. This produces—from the foreground figure, through one of the seated figures—the transitional line which pulls the composition forwards and backwards and makes a circular composition of what was originally a line sweeping across the entire canvas.
H.R. Poore

Pictorial Composition
An Introduction
Henry Rankin Poore

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 18d

A theory of knowledge that takes something as self-evident based on a variety of assumptions that are certainly not so self-evident is, as #Hegel puts it, itself only an appearance ( #Erscheinung) and, as such, can make no claim to being true or better than the others.
#TerryPinkard
#Phenomenology

Hegel's Phenomenology
The Sociality of Reason
Terry Pinkard

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 18d

This is basically Eternalism notwithstanding the first two words.

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 18d

Christ fled relationships in the actual world on the grounds that all available ties were fatally compromised. This resolution became an integral if ominous part of his embassy: ‘Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.’
#RichardBourke

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 18d

#Eternalism holds that all moments of time and their contents enjoy the same ontological status. Past and future moments, events, and objects are just as real as the present ones. Eternalism contrasts with #presentism, the view that only the present entities are real.

#YuriBalashov

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 18d

Much of contemporary #PhilosophyOfTime is an ongoing battle between two rival ontologies of time, #eternalism and #presentism.

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 19d

Calling for order, authority, confidence, unity and efficiency, #Robespierre was ceasing to be revolutionary in the old sense of the word. In 1793, “Revolutionary” referred to the stabilizing of an accomplished fact, #TheRevolution.

#R.R.Palmer
#TwelveWhoRuled

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 19d

Three factors made the “ #MetricalRevolution” possible: the growth of market exchange; popular sentiment and Enlightenment philosophy favored a single standard throughout France; the Revolution and especially Napoleonic state building enforced the metric system in France and the empire
#JamesCScott

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 20d

As European history shows, Russia must be defeated for the sake of Russia itself. If Russia is to reform, it must lose its imperial war. Russia can only win by losing. Anyone who cares about Russians should be working for Russia’s defeat in this war.

#TimothySnyder
#TheRoadToUnfreedom

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 20d

To end war in Europe, Europe will have to understand itself. As European history shows, empire ends only in exhaustion. The relevant category is therefore not peace but defeat. The war only ends when Russia is exhausted.

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 20d

Most readers will set out by expecting nothing else from the #Critique, but these #Prolegomena is a perfectly new science, of which no one has ever even thought, and for which nothing hitherto accomplished can be of the smallest use, except it be the suggestion of Hume’s doubts.

#ImmanuelKant

Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 20d

We have been long accustomed to seeing antiquated knowledge produced as new by taking it out of its former context, and fitting it into a systematic dress of any fancy pattern under new titles.

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 20d

In vain do you pretend to have learned the nature of bodies from your past #experience. Their secret nature, and consequently, all their effects and influence, may change, without any change in their sensible qualities.

#DavidHume
#AnEnquiry

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Viacheslav Landakov @landviach.bsky.social · 21d

Although the eye travels across the line of figures and then to the opening background where it could easily get lost, the line is saved by the figure in the door whose gaze turns us back to the subject.

#HenryRankinPoore
#DiegoVelázquez
#LasMeninas

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