#Moralist

[realihub]

Reference images made by Realicide's artist

[katyhoodlum]

the cult threesome ship redraw

i drew two versions of it with different brushes for nostalgia,

the og art was drawn with the fluffy brush

singular moralist because hes so cute

[scotianostra]

On August 18th 1803 the Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher James Beattie died.

You may not be familiar with his name but he carried such weight in literary history that he was one of the sixteen Scottish writers included on the Scott Monument that was completed in 1844 on Princes Street, Edinburgh. It is, perhaps, remarkable that he chose to remain on the staff of Marischal College, near Aberdeen having been appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in 1760 at the tender age of 25.

He was born on the 25th October 1735 in Laurencekirk, a small north east town in Kincardineshire (now part of Aberdeenshire). His father ran a small farming concern as well as being a shopkeeper but the means were found to send his son to Marischal from where he graduated in 1753. He had ambitions in both philosophical and literary fields and his first volume of poetry was published in 1765 under the title The Judgment of Paris. The piece of work that really made his reputation though was published in 1771.

Beattie often spoke out vehemently against the slave trade and his feelings were outlined in a remarkable work from the Scottish “common sense school of philosophy” called An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth. This proved popular around the world, including America, and Beattie was inducted into the American Philosophical Society in 1784. Translations of the book were published in Dutch, French and German and he was soon summoned for an audience with King George III. The result of this was the award of a Crown pension of £200 per annum and Oxford University bestowed an LL.D. degree upon him. The famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait.

Beattie’s major work of poetry also came out the same year although The Minstrel actually constituted two separate books, the second being published in 1774. Many readers and literary critics considered it to be a beautiful piece of descriptive writing,it earned praise from all quarters, including the likes of Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson. It’s full title was The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius.

While his professional life flourished his family life disintegrated when, first, his wife was committed to an asylum having been declared mad and she later died there. Then he lost both of his sons. The elder son died in 1790 and the younger lost his life six years later.

Beattie struggled to cope with such tragedies and his health deteriorated rapidly. He had several strokes until his body finally gave up on him.

James Beattie died in Aberdeen on the 18th August 1803 at the age of 67.

Want to know more about James Beattie, check out the link here https://www.iep.utm.edu/beattiej/

[evilelitest2]

So, where do you fall on Leftism spectrum? I sure hope not believing in left armament or successful uprising disqualifies me from being futher left than a liberal.

oh this is a complicated question, but in short not wanting a violent revolution doesn't make you not a leftist, it just makes you not an idiot. My view of leftism is that it is about protecting human rights, which is my first priority. I think my leftism boils down to the following points

Liberalism: Negative Freedoms, aka Civil Liberties, protections against government tyranny

Examples: Right to free speech, Freedom of religion, equality before the law, right to a fair trial, habitus Corpus, innocence until proven guilty, warrant any sort of limit on state power

Socialism: Positive freedoms, aka things the government needs to provide to all citizens

Examples: Free education, Free housing, Free Healthcare, free food, land redistribution, free clothing, free lawyers, free support ect

Progressivism, aka Civil Rights, things to protect citizens from other Citizens, mostly in terms of opposing bigotry. So policies that fight back against racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, xenophobia, nativism, religious intolerance, anti Semitism and antiquated cultural norms.

Democratic Republican (not the political party like pro Democracy) Pro Democracy: Democracy is the best government system that we have and the more proportional a democracy the better, we need to remove most authoritarian power structures. democracy should be designed to resist corruption and graft form the ground up

Examples: Ranked Choice voting, abolish the Senate, lower the voting age, popular election of Presidents, term limits, abolish gerrymandering, limit the Supreme Court

Green: Oh dear god, please make the environment less horrible we are going to die

Examples: AHHHHHHHHHHH

I generally think that leftists must balance all 5 of those, if not, its not leftism i want, intersectionality is the name of the game

now within Leftism I am a huge statist, I think the State is the most effective tool for implementing these policies, and the most powerful tool for the left (i also have a low opinion on human nature) I am anti utopian, I am pro intellectual and anti conspiracy theory

So I think that makes me a Progressive Social Democrat, since "humanist" isn't a political party (except in disco Elysium)

[candycouturier]

hi kitty ^_^ do you have any headcanons for ur ship with moralism? - @capitalistbf (i love seeing other centricide/realicide shippers :3)

HIIII OMG I HAVE SO MANY TY FOR ASKING

Moralist is totally a goody two shoes, and I’m a terrible influence on him 😭 my horrible manners got him to cuss

He likes to go out and I’m super indoorsy so he has to drag me out of the house to go anywhere

He and I are both super affectionate but I initiate all the pda<333 he has a kissable face

He’s taller than me so he has to get things for me and I hate it! Grr I appreciate it tho

I attempt to be the “man” of the house but my arms are as strong as uncooked spaghetti so I can’t open jars for shit

I make him watch Star Trek with me because I’m a NERD and he and I talk about it forever <3 (William Riker is his favorite and mine’s data <3333) (I’m the riker to his Diana Troi <3) (if you don’t get it uhh look it up I thinkies)

He’s the only one who laughs at my terrible jokes

Neither of us can cook but we try via freezer dinners

He takes care of the bugs bc I’m too scared of them. I try to get him to kill them but he doesn’t because “everything deserves to live!” And I think that’s total bs DEATH TO FLIES

I’m a night owl and he’s a morning person so he lays in bed for at LEAST an hour with me before he gets up

On topic of the bed, I take up 90% of the bed and he just squeezes in and takes the remaining 10%

I keep trying to convince him to get a pet, and the only issue is I want a cat and he wants a dog (we will eventually compromise and get both. The dog is gonna like me most much to my displeasure) (it’s like when dads say they don’t want a dog and then the two become inseparable)

He always gets perfect gifts somehow?????? But I’m total shit at gift giving so I give him a card and some money every year for his birthday

I got him to dye his hair once but it was cursed so never again

I got him to actually take care of his hair and it’s so pretty now <3

I tell him kinda creepy shit and he hasn’t called the police yet, I think he should

I do make up on him. He’s very pretty

Animals always seem to like him and it makes me jealous! He’s a Disney princess and it’s unfair

He has gorgeous nails and I love to paint them pretty colors!!! <333

I have to do the clothes shopping because he’s super simple and won’t get anything fashionable unless I’m there

(We’re not married yet but I have plans!!! This is under the cut bc it’s secretttt) (all my mooties are invited<3)

[florbo-0]

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[linusjf]

Francois De La Rochefoucauld: Neither last nor first

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74809293 “It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.” —Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680).

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In 1983, at a conference on gene therapy, Ola Huntley, the mother of three sickle-cell anemic children and a counselor of sickle-cell patients, declared, "I am angry that anyone presumes to deny my children the essential genetic treatment of a genetic disease. I see such persons as simplistic moralists."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[underleveledjosh]

Calling you a moralist is the insult, actually. A miralist is somebody who dictates what somebody should or shouldn't do based on arbitrary moral standards, which describes you. You are not morally obligated to give any money to humanitarian aid organizations. Not like any of that money can go to Palestine due to blockades, anyway. You are a morally pandantic jackass, and you are terminally online.

As I said before: whether somebody donates or not is not indicative of their morality. You just want to control people. My money, my business. You don't get a say in what I spend on. Or what anybody does with their money, for that matter.

can i be real? i think ao3 should die for doing a donation pool for themselves with everything going on

[sweatywerewolfmentality]

La felicidad en esta vida no consiste en la serenidad de una mente satisfecha; porque no existe el finis ultimus (propósitos finales) ni el summum bonum (bien supremo), de que hablan los libros de los viejos filósofos moralistas. Para una persona, cuando su deseo ha alcanzado el fin, resulta la vida tan imposible como para otra cuyas sensaciones y fantasías estén paralizadas. La felicidad es un continuo progreso de los deseos, de un objeto a otro, ya que la consecución del primero no es otra cosa sino un camino para realizar otro ulterior.

Thomas hobbes

Leviatan o la materia, forma y poder de un estado este eclesiástico y civil (1651)

[realihub]

All the introduction slides that Erin made, notably, the fringe compass ideologies never used their slides.

[katyhoodlum]

heathers moralist redraw

[bemorch]

¿Buscaban al caos? Pues hallaron al caos

Here’s my entry for the @de-fanzine-cpr-pale Pale_ fanzine! Chose the song El Outsider by Café Tacvba to illustrate Cindy's pov of Martinaise.

You can check out the complete zine here (for free)

Translation (or my best attempt at it):

(Page 1)

I am the outsider, I am the sidestepper

Misfit with a cause, I have found you

And there’s no one like you

(Page 2)

I’ve seen you around, kicking the rules

Walking desire paths better than roads, which are already walked

Life might be sad, for everyone else

(Page 3)

The joy that exists from opening the doors

Laughing at the mugs of those that have us locked up

This way the outsider, this way the sidestepper

Will never have anything, and neither will he need it

(Page 4)

He has himself

This is why, my friend

If you find others that are also other

(Page 5)

Tell them that fire burning away goes

[leehama]

I really appreciate you making a comic about older aroace characters. A lot of stories are about teenagers, and everyone always brings up how aroace people “can’t be happy later in life” (marriage, kids, being lonely, etc), so it’s nice to see characters that are ~30 and living happy lives!

Hey there, thank you so much! I did specifically write AALD not to be a coming-of-age story, in the sense that I'm less interested in writing about the aspec characters figuring out their identities than exploring how it affects their daily lives as adults in society (ex. Nora's concerns about how she'll always be single-income while her married sister has more options as part of a double-income household, how marriage/relationship status can affect your standing in the workplace, etc.)

The characters in AALD are still young adults, and there are characters who are still figuring themselves out--but it's been fun to write about characters who aren't just facing the future with their identities, but have already taken a few steps into it!

[fieldofheathers-stuff]

Possibly unpopular opinion but hear me out. (I have already said this in a reblog to another post by @angelinthefire but I wanted to write it separately becaus I want people's opinion on this.)

I have been thinking about this a lot, and I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the dislike of Arcane S2 can be traced down to the fact that, at its core, Arcane is a tragedy (and specifically an euripidean tragedy) in a technical sense. Tragedy is a neglected genre in today's popular media landscape; this, coupled with the modern tendency to apply media criticism very literally (an approach best exemplified by Cinema Sins and the like) and whithin a framework of contemporary morals has rendered many unable to engage with this genre properly.

Euripides' tragedies, much like Arcane, are set in a world that is fundamentally amoral and unjust; therefore, trying to view the characters' actions (or, by extension, the writer's choices) through a moral lens is an exercise in futility. The story is not a vehicle for the authors to impart a moral lesson about life, society or justice (although some biases and beliefs inevitably filter through - the authors are human, after all); it exists to explore character's choices and the consequences of their actions in a world that is funamentally chaotic, uncontrollable and unfair.

The people who wanted Arcane's S2 to end with a lesson on fairness or social justice (or to simply to reflect their own views on certain subjects or characters) will always be dissappointed. This is not that kind of story.

It's like going into a street brawl and judging it by MMA fight rules. You sure can, but what's the point?