𝓫𝓲𝓸𝓼 𝓹𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓴𝓸𝓼, 𝓿𝓲𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓷 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓾𝓼

𝒜 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒𝓇

I’m back in action after a very, very busy summer.

Dropping a graphic/teaser to hold myself accountable to actually following up on/finishing a review of Timothy Bewes’ Cynicism and Postmodernity + a comparative character study on four of my favorite fellas from the television.

Hoping to have the review up by this weekend and a guy-by-guy trickle leaking out over the course of next week.

Quick primer on terms to be further fleshed out in the review (yes, only one of them is actually good).

Metaphysical Innocence — Archie Andrews (Riverdale):

-Acts without self-reflection

-Pre-Conscious Ethical Outlook

-Doxa

-Pure Energy

-“Natural” Law-preserving Violence

-Absolutism

-Essentialism

-Pure vita activa

KYNISMOS — Lt. Frank Colombo (Colombo):

-Acts make manifest Self-Consciousness

-Dialogical Ethics

-Contradoxy

--Energy indistinguishable from Depth

-“Natural” Law-making violence

-Democratic Pragmatism

-“Enlightened False Consciousness”

-vita activa as end and means

“KELVINISM” — Dr. Gregory House (House):

Acts in spite of self-reflection

Instrumental disregard for Ethics

Heterodoxy

Energy qualifed by Depth

“Positive Law-making Violence

Absurdism

Pragmatic Relativism

vita activa reduced to bare life

INTEGRITY — Tony Soprano (The Sopranos):

-Acts according to self-reflection

-Duty bound Ethics

-Orthodoxy

-Energy motivated by Depth

-“Positive” Law-preserving Violence

-Deontological Absolutism

-Existentialism

-Contemplative vita activa