tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5739470476984361383..comments2024-03-28T12:56:13.118+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The day I met Elizabeth (G.E.M) AnscombeBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-18580907932479031562011-05-02T09:08:44.929+01:002011-05-02T09:08:44.929+01:00@Daniel - indeed. Good fortune works, or at least ...@Daniel - indeed. Good fortune works, or at least has worked for me, more by avoiding or extricating me from what seemed like - but was not - good luck, than from gifting me me good opportunities (although I have had them too - for example the bequested - and well paid - editorship of Medical Hypotheses for 7 years with a completely free rein to choose the journal content).Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-83651415917082504002011-05-02T06:25:57.849+01:002011-05-02T06:25:57.849+01:00My final year as an undergraduate in a public univ...My final year as an undergraduate in a public university English program in the US, I was singled out by our top (most famous) post-modern professor as something of a protege. He wanted to steer me to a top graduate program in post-whatever "studies".<br /><br />Thankfully, I had dreadful grades and a horrible work ethic. My quick wits and sheer loquacity — and my enthusiastic embrace of deconstructionism — made me seem like a much better student that I really was. <br /><br />At the time I became truly angry with myself for the lost opportunity and vowed to work much harder in life (with mixed results). Now, I look back on it as the luckiest thing. I was able to escape that cesspit of nothingness and lies before too much of my self-identity had become hopelessly entangled with it.<br /><br />Your story reminds me of this hidden blessing in my own life.Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-27239786132981385692011-05-01T23:16:26.072+01:002011-05-01T23:16:26.072+01:00So I gather - unfortunately I just can't get m...So I gather - unfortunately I just can't get myself to read her stuff.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-19202223457762414742011-05-01T22:32:13.389+01:002011-05-01T22:32:13.389+01:00They say she was very important in the (academic o...They say she was very important in the (academic of course, not cultural) revival of virtue ethics / eudaemonism. Quite a key concept in rightism.RSnoreply@blogger.com