The diverse frailties of humankind
Via Martha Nussbaum’s Poetic Justice, an excerpt from Woodson v. North Carolina (1976):
#negative capability
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Positive Capability
Read more → More from Out of Many →I posted a few months ago about negative capability – that is, the ability to tolerate uncertainty, “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Coined by the Romantic poet Keats, the term is easily associated with art but applies in all disciplines and all areas of life. Uncertainty pervades everything. So it behooves us to come to terms with it.
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Quick decisions
Read more → More from Out of Many →Last week I went to a rally to protest a series of raids by ICE in my city. The rally turned into an unplanned march through the streets, and I had to make two quick decisions: first, whether to join the march, and second, whether to remain in the street when the police started to give warnings.