a relentless necessity

Still proud of this article on the role of racial slavery in Kant's theory of money in the *Philosophy of Right.* philarchive.org/rec/CAPEMH

@materialcritic i can't say it's never happened to me but i think there's only been one or two cases where i don't know exactly why

never happens with me because only suckers block me

@materialcritic @pen_keeper i googled him after this and lol

@pen_keeper @CapenerSean niche internet micro celebrity

they should shoot this too

@Permanentkritik idk if i'd say marx is special in that, or that there's anything necessarily pejorative about it; same thing applies to kant scholarship, for instance, or really any figure-based scholarship where the figure at stake still inspires intellectual or political allegiance

@Permanentkritik well for one, the hermeneutic strategies available for validating competing readings of marx as viable felt like they often had pretty one-to-one relationships with the strategies one learns to apply to reading, say, paul's letters in a seminary context

When people compare reading and interpreting Marx to religious practices I always wonder about their experience with religion.

@DhammaDoom @glitchpoke yes in that there's a lot of obvious symptomatic overlap, no in that the idea that manichaeism is exterior enough to christianity that those overlaps would require 'importing' from outside christianity seems less tenable to me now

@DhammaDoom @glitchpoke oh! i mean i'll be able to say more in two weeks because augustine's next on my agenda but in some sense yes and in some sense no

all this week i've basically been trying to teach myself an overview of what we actually know about manichaeism and the historical mani and it's been a wild ride

@DhammaDoom @glitchpoke or in the sense that there's more affinity between his post-manichean thought and manichaeism than is generally understood?

@DhammaDoom @glitchpoke in the sense that he secretly never deconverted? not familiar with this idea

@SKirkland88 @glitchpoke it's easy to get in the habit of thinking of the elect as the core constituency of manichaeanism, but the hearer majority were allowed to marry and reproduce, they just couldn't have extramarital sex

@SKirkland88 @glitchpoke well on this front i think they kind of solved that with the moral carbon credits (after all, they didn't truly die out until like the 17th century despite active repression in many places)

@tenbillionswans @lakeeater I've only read a couple of the essays in there; found the one by Jason Beduhn helpful ("The Metabolism of Salvation" I think it was called)

@CapenerSean @lakeeater if so, how does it hold up against what u've read so far?

@glitchpoke i really wasn't expecting to learn that manichaeism was probably a paulinism

@glitchpoke also mani seems to have grown up in some sort of apocalyptic jewish/christian adjacent cult (in something like the modern sense of that word) and to have come up with what we know as manichaeism after deciding that they weren't ... pauline enough?

@lakeeater nobody seems to agree on much! haha. but i think the most helpful thing i've read is Gardner and Lieu (2004) *Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire*

@CapenerSean best sources you've come across? I feel like everything I read diverges wildly

@africanrhizome in*

@africanrhizome heard on this voice

would it be heretical if I argue for the supersession of philosophy in a philosophy thesis? or would it just be funny