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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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immanence

Deconstruction turns the ideal of being an autonomous, immanent self, free from external influences, against itself

—p.166 Sincerity (162) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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the authentic self

Now, most theorists of authenticity prefer to speak of authenticity as the product of continuous self-creation and development and not of an inherent, fixed self-essence. But if there is nothing 'inherent' about the authentic self, then the question arises as to whether we can even speak meaningful…

—p.166 Sincerity (162) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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DFW on morality

[...] Wallace is not calling for a return to old truths and values. In other interviews, he says: 'we're going to have to make up a lot of our own morality, and a lot of our own values'. And: 'there's probably no absolute right in all situatons handed down from God on the stone tablets. [...] it …

—p.161 Wittgenstein and Wallace: The Meaning of Fiction (132) by Allard Pieter den Dulk