Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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abnegation

a wholesale abnegation of our aspirations to something 'higher' than mere animality

—p.80 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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banausic

confused duty with self-interest, the intrinsic authority of the moral law with the banausic need to bargain with opponents whom one cannot overcome

probably related to "banal"?

—p.74 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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what is useful and what is right

Morality and law, on the other hand, begin when controversy arises. We invent both when we can no longer just do what comes naturally, when routine is no longer good enough, or when habit and custom no longer suffice. These will no longer suffice when the individual's needs begin to clash with thos…

—p.73 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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noumenal

we have a noumenal and trascendental side, a side which escapes relationality

—p.68 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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