The Daily Blog Open Mic – 21st November 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Some philosophy following on from musings re The Trolley Problem referred to in the caption comment.
And – Derek Antony Parfit FBA (/ˈpɑːrfɪt/; 11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017[3][4]) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics.
He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries…
…His first book, Reasons and Persons (1984), has been described as the most significant work of moral philosophy since the 1800s.[6][7] His second book, On What Matters (2011), was widely circulated and discussed for many years before its publication.
For his entire academic career, Parfit worked at Oxford University, where he was an Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College at the time of his death. He was also a visiting professor of philosophy at Harvard University, New York University, and Rutgers University. He was awarded the 2014 Rolf Schock Prize “for his groundbreaking contributions concerning personal identity, regard for future generations, and analysis of the structure of moral theories.”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit
So what notice did we take of his strivings of intellect??? Are universities set up and maintained by the ‘superior and monetised’ who have advanced in our society; to throw us others off track so we don’t realise that they are just a feint confusing us from their acquisitive and punitive instincts that expand to Mr Creosote circumference in some as their prestige and money grows; within the mercantile sector mainly, of course.
Scoop item re ACC:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED2411/S00035/announcing-the-inaugural-winners-of-the-acc-scholarship.htm
Two students—Hana Sikma and Merrick Rodrigues—have been awarded full scholarships worth $15,000 each. Four students—Merope Griffin, Luke Hollis, Reghan Laurie, and Adrian Pretorius—have been awarded partial scholarships of $7500 each.
Scholarships are awarded to eligible full-time or part-time candidates enrolled in a master’s degree at an approved Aotearoa New Zealand institution, who have started or will undertake research into a topic that relates to ACC’s research priorities.
and –
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2411/S00085/pike-river-14-years-on-and-far-too-many-of-us-are-being-injured-at-work.htm
Pike River: 14 Years On And Far Too Many Of Us Are Being Injured At Work
Scholarships study, ways of increasing the hoops that people who actually do something physical have to jump through, while ACC announces it is short of money and acts like a corpse (shut down a large commercial buildings entity in Nelson recently – because not making enough return from its invested money).