Quiet minds

The John Lachs memorial service is this afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/live/DEAmsoFOe2w?si=nsaePPSHobRoWJ3b

Here's a typical, delightfully droll Lachsian takedown of philosophers who are out of touch with subjectivity and feeling, particularly their own:

"…immediacy continues to receive little attention in the world of thought. In philosophy, in semiotics, in law and the other professions, thirds occupy pride of place. Our interest is focused on rules and laws, on the intelligible structure of what we do. We seem to think that understanding is possible on the basis of description alone and that living, direct experience, what we might call direct acquaintance, is an impediment to thought. In our urgency to know the outcome of our acts, we overlook how they feel. We appear not to realize that some of the most important consequences we help cause are feelings and emotions. Instead, we relegate private experience to the realm of the "merely subjective" and thereby rob it of dignity and significance. Even worse, some philosophers go so far as to deny the existence of feelings and private minds altogether. In the quiet of their minds, they clearly feel good about holding such positions."

— The Cost of Comfort (American Philosophy) by John Lachs
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