Fake Charity Nerd Girl (#my philosophy class is often silly but sometimes interesting)

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Long post is long. Contains references to fashion, Leah Libresco, Effulgence, “the aesthetic”, Maslow’s Hierarchy, and my life.

Basic structure:

1. Background on what I think aesthetic means in context.
2. Discussion of what it implies we should do, half-hearted references at the literature.
3. Discussion of the contrasting theory.
4. Conclusion.

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Coincidentally I’m pretty sure we were talking about this exact same thing in my philosophy class today. (Only pretty sure because I didn’t actually do the reading so I couldn’t totally understand what was going on. I was preparing for an interview instead, for a job that pays a lot of money that I could donate, so not doing the reading was actually the virtuous thing to do.) But in any case we read Sartre and MacIntyre and talked about their conflicting views of self-fashioning, which pretty much map onto your divergent and convergent.

I find the Sartre/divergent view to be self-indulgent. Of course, I’m only saying that because self-indulgence runs counter to my current conception of the aesthetic soooooo

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