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Miles Hentrup

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Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University | Research on Hegel, Pyrrhonian Skepticism, and Critical Theory https://mileshentrup.wixsite.com/miles-hentrup https://philpeople.org/profiles/miles-hentrup

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · Jan 6

How adorable are my students for giving me this gift in appreciation of my last #Hegel seminar??

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 19h

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

William Blake's 1826 illustration of Dante and Virgil at the gates of hell from Canto III

#WyrdWednesday

William Blake's illustration of Dante and Virgil at the gates of hell

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 1d

My university is including a tutorial on HOW TO FUCKING WALK as part of our mandatory annual training.

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 1d

I want you all to know how little my university values my time.

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 1d

I want you all to know how little my university values my time.

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 1d

Musonius Rufus wrote this in the 1st century. #philsky #philosophy

"Moreover, not men alone, but women too, have a natural inclination toward virtue and the capacity for acquiring it, and it is the nature of women no less than men to be pleased by good and just acts and to reject the opposite of these. If this is true, by what reasoning would it ever be appropriate for men to search out and consider how they may lead good lives, which is exactly the study of philosophy, but inappropriate for women? Could it be that it is fitting for men to be good, but not for women?"

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 2d

Hegel (and Novalis?) would certainly agree!

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 2d

As a level 51 Kantian, you gain the ability to swim without ever getting wet.

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 3d

I've heard that once you reach level 42 as a Nietzschean, you can enter any business you like without shoes or a shirt.

Reply with your favorite philosophical class ability.

#philosophy #philsky

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 9d

L3Harris Technologies, based in Melbourne, Florida, provides ICE with cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays, which function as artificial cell towers to trick mobile phones into connecting to them.

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How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

www.forbes.com

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 3d

I've heard that once you reach level 42 as a Nietzschean, you can enter any business you like without shoes or a shirt.

Reply with your favorite philosophical class ability.

#philosophy #philsky

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 3d

#SchlegelSunday #C19th

"All despair is deterministic - but even determinism is an element of the philosophical universe or system. The isolation of the elements and false belief in their reality is the source of most, perhaps all, errors hitherto." -Novalis

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 4d

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 4d

Mewtwo does look like King Kong! Luckily, he's very gentle with Hilda.

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 4d

#caturday #catsky #catsofbluesky #void #floof

A large black fluffy kitty playing with a small tabby kitten on the top level of their cat condo

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 4d

The world it spins on a crooked axis

Left it twitching by the road

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Earth-tallahassee

YouTube video by tripofdoom

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 5d

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #moviesky

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Bill's Big Pumpkins (2007), Deadbeat at Dawn (1988), The Navigator (1924)

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 6d

tfw you teach descartes' dream argument on 2 hours of sleep

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 6d

'tis the season
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Sublime Horror in the Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 7d

It does have some interesting cultural history, but you really have to dig pretty deep.

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 7d

I see. I thought I might be missing some context. They don't look too familiar to me, but I'll keep my eye out! There's some fantastic natural beauty down here, but culturally, it is, unfortunately, the waste channel into which all contradictions flow.

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 7d

You've been down here in Fort Myers, @thisispsychedelico.com??

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 7d

I encountered this pink weirdness a few days ago kayaking on the Estero River. Turns out that it's a clutch of eggs from a Pomacea apple snail. 🐌 #WyrdWednesday #nature

Pomacea apple snail eggs on a palm tree on the Estero River

Close up of pomacea apple snail eggs on a palm tree on the Estero River

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 8d

Cicero provides the first recorded use of the word "culture" in a nonagricultural context. He uses it here to refer to the philosophical cultivation of the soul. #philosophy #philsky

"Whereas philosophy is the culture of the mind: this it is which plucks up vices by the roots; prepares the mind for the receiving of seed, commits them to it, or, as I may say, sows them, that, when come to maturity, they may produce a plentiful harvest."

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 9d

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Harry Nilsson "Good Old Desk" Playboy After Dark - 1968

YouTube video by Bobby Cole

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Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 10d

#catsky #catsofbluesky

A beautiful little kitten relaxing at the top of a cat tree

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 10d

#SchlegelSunday

"The second valid motive for a legitimate insurrection is the existence of an absolute despotism... Absolute despotism is not even a quasistate, but rather an antistate, and an incomparably greater evil than anarchy. The latter is only a negation of the politically positive; the former an affirmation of the politically negative."

Miles Hentrup @miles-hentrup.bsky.social · 11d

I think she absolutely dunked on him!