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2024.10 The website ‘Reading Ethics in English’ is up at ethics15.com Philosophy (now ‘Critique of Pure Reason’... I don't understand it), music (mainly pre-Bach), art (Romanesque architecture), film (art-related), Go (board game. Amateur 7-dan.
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- Many ethicists agree with veganism, but the proportion of practising ethicists is smaller. Why is it that people know what is ethically right but fail to practise it?
- I don't know why. I like to listen to young people talk incessantly, vaguely wondering if I could have lived my life like hers.
- Of course, our generations are too different and our ideas do not coincide with theirs, but I still like to listen to them.
- I like to meet young people and ask them about their lives. To be clear, they don't ask me about me, I ask them.
- statue in Kamakura period
- Ukiyoe Art
- Tokyo University of Arts
- Today is the anniversary of the death of my chihuahua, Chico, who died four years ago at the age of 10. I bought flowers and displayed them with her picture. I will never forget it.
- It is not so much that the other person is changing, but that I am changing. In this light, there is no such thing as unchanging love or unchanging research themes. There is only love and research themes that are constantly renewed.
- When you think about it, you don't have to force yourself to keep your current relationships in good shape, and there is nothing that you absolutely have to buy, nothing that you have to buy. Everything changes.
- I'm sorting through my Gmail from 10 years ago. I am amazed at how much has changed: the people I email, the items I purchase, the subs I subscribe to.
- I used to think that the Beatles' early days were "music that makes girls squeal" and that their music started to deepen around the time of "Rubber Soul," but after listening to it again in high-resolution, I was very wrong.
- I think Japan has been ruined since Japanese people started to be happy with something like Starbucks' "something Frappuccino". (I am not saying that Starbucks is bad.)
- Just as reaching the drinking age does not make one an adult in spirit, turning 50 does not make one wiser by experience.
- Tokyu Denentoshi Line, with Shibuya at the head of the list, has no decent bookstores.
- No matter how ethically correct an activity may seem, if you feel something is not right, you should cherish that feeling. Because it is not right for you.
- Today I visited my mother's grave and visited my father-in-law in the hospital. In the past, I used to think visiting graves was foolish, but lately I'm starting to feel that meaningless things have meaning. On the way home, I went to Takano Fruit Parlor.
- I can sleep soundly on days when my dog sleeps with me.
- CDs that come with old language books often have storage problems and are often unreadable. Therefore, I decided to import all of them into our PC with a media player.
- I had my dog turned into a human image by ChatGPT.
- Tama-Plaza in Yokohama
- The cherry blossom season in Japan is almost over!
- At the age of 66 years and 8 months, I decided to take up German. According to Masaru Sato, there is no way I will be able to master the language if I start at an old age, but it would be frustrating to give up from the very beginning. I will report my progress or setbacks here in the future.
- America was a country that sold dreams, even fictional ones.
- Anger" really ruins everything, doesn't it?
- If I became a politician (which I won't, lol), I would abolish walking phones, I would not bow down to the US, and I would ration rice.
- In the new year, there are a lot of strangers, walking around in a hurry, everyone is strangely high-strung, and that makes me weary.
- Before it's April Fool's Day, let me say. Someday something good will happen to you."
- Cherry blossoms are one step short of full bloom.
- We spent a relaxing time at home. I am amazed that my wife goes along with someone as selfish and self-indulgent as I am. I would like to express my gratitude in secret here.
- It was our 40th wedding anniversary. We had originally planned to take the dog to Atami, but my father-in-law was hospitalized and the trip was cancelled.
- Why do certain ethical activities inevitably take on a cult-like coloration?
- Being a cheapskate by nature, I didn't feel like throwing these books away, so I decided to start at the undergraduate level. No, I have no intention of ending up at the undergraduate level.
- One day, I thought. PhilosophyI had somehow stayed away from it until now, and I thought, either I'm serious about it, or I'm going to get rid of the books.
- I am now a part-time retiree, and the reason why I suddenly decided to do philosophy is, of course, that I had been interested in it for a while and had been buying books even though I never read them, but with Covid19, I couldn't travel, and I started buying more and more books only.
- Should Japan possess nuclear weapons?
- I wish the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University would get serious and create correspondence universities and graduate schools. There are too few options in Japan today.
- More than the trip, I am worried about my father-in-law, who at 95 years old has broken his femur and I don't know if he will ever fully recover. What is the meaning of life?
- We had planned to take the dogs to Atami starting Thursday, but my elderly father-in-law was hospitalized in an emergency.
- One course has been completed.
- I often pick up books like "~Introduction to ~". However, since I am a beginner, I will not make fun of them, or rather, I will read them seriously because they are such books.
- Temperatures have soared in Tokyo over the past few days. So I think the cherry blossoms will be blooming soon.
- After 40 minutes of dog walking, I felt like I had done a great job.
- My wife is out of the house today, so I thought I would play a game of Go on the internet or just relax and play, but then I remembered that I had been ordered to check my stockpile of food, watch out.
- George Foreman passed away. One era has ended.
- An Insta-friend of mine started a business and posts a promotion on Stories every day. I'm okay with it once in a while, but if it's every day, I'm going to want to mute him.
- I am attracted to a cool beauty first because she is not flirtatious. Secondly, despite her coolness, there are moments when she can be seen to be expressing a subtle emotion.
- At farewell parties, people always have "nice things to say". People around them expect them to do so. I hate to tell these deceptive stories, and I hate to be told them, but surprisingly, there are people who love them.
- People often say, "Don't compare yourself with others," and I think that is absolutely true, but to be completely unaware of others is not as easy as it sounds. (Even at this very moment, I am wondering, "Is this post being read?"）
- Is there an English saying, ‘Holidays go by so fast’?
