Monday, September 8, 2008

Free Cantons

Stupid?

A classical view (based on the unity of the human person): stupidity is an hysteria: it would be enough to see oneself as stupid in order to be less so. A dialectical view: I agree to pluralize myself, to permit free cantons of stupidity to live within me.

Often he has felt stupid: this was because he had only an ethical intelligence (i.e., neither scientific nor political nor practical nor philosophical, etc.). (RB 110)

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Yesterday was the Barthes of September, the day of the year that has, around here, become blogically devoted to excerpts a la Roland. Oh how nice it would be if this--missing Barthes Day--was the only thing off a little bit these days. Decrypted: I'm still on the rebound from that flu bug (it was a damn fine foe), and, as luck would have it, Tom Brady was my number one pick on my fantasy football team, which, pity that it is, still makes me wonder why, if it's fantasy, he can't be healthy and put up big numbers this season.

Posted by Derek Mueller at September 8, 2008 10:00 PM to Rhythms