Feminist Philosophy
I’ve been mainlining Le Guin’s non-fiction writing. It strikes me reading this passage again that she’s bumping up against Harry Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit.” To paraphrase, that bullshit doesn’t concern itself with the truth—it’s objective is outside the realm of information. I don’t think fiction is bullshit, obviously. But now I’m curious about the qualities of fiction as they relate to the qualities of bullshit.
Willfulness can create all sorts of personal suffering because, at the end of the day, we don’t have control over all sorts of things, and certainly not over other people. Some walls are meant to be broken down or scaled, but others are clear signals to attempt a different tact.
What sorts of signals are we ignoring when we hit those concrete walls... See more
What sorts of signals are we ignoring when we hit those concrete walls... See more
Kate Tyson (Strathmann) • The Trouble with Willpower
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femphilarchives.org“True work is done for the sake of doing it. What is to be done with it afterwards is another matter, another job.”
— Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin
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