The trouble with humans is not that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough.
- #MaryMidgley
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🎉GIVEAWAY🎉It’s #WorldPhilosophyDay on Thursday & @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#PhilosophyInTheWild #TeamWales is having a #book #giveaway. Our project is inspired by the work of #MaryMidgley who thought #philosophy needs to wake us up & work collaboratively to tell new stories, myths & visions 👇
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It's interesting that what finally convinced #MaryMidgley that humans & animals are not distinct species but that humans are simply animals, too, was the time she left academia to birth & raise three boys...
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#philsky #philosophy #teamre #RVE @inparenthesis.bsky.social #Midgley #MaryMidgley #notesfromabiscuittin #mixedcommunity #findinghopeinmixedcommunity #multispeciespoetry #multispeciesliving @pesgb.bsky.social @saperep4c.bsky.social
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Happy Birthday #MaryMidgley! Having a coffee, thinking of you & appropriately talking to lots of lovely folk about why we all need to study philosophy - & study religion! #TimothySecret being his usual brilliant self selling our degree courses @uniwinchester.bsky.social #philsky #theosky #teamre
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"The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough."
✒️ #MaryMidgley, British philosopher, was #BOTD 13 September 1919. #Philosophy
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One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social
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"I suppose in a very admirable and harmless way, I take science to have a religious aspect. That is, it involves people responding to the vastness of the universe."
-Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction
#marymidgley #philsky
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#philosophyinthewild member & rockstar changemaker & storyteller #nicoladavies - what a keynote & stunning art from #FranEvans.
Well done to all the team at #llangwmlitfest it has been such a pleasure to work with you all. More tomorrow #pembrokeshire #MaryMidgley #mixedcommunity
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"We rejoice in the whole of nature and being part of it, as something to which we belong."
-Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction
#marymidgley #philsky
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the session what it was - thank you. 3/3
#philosophyinthewild #philosophymatters #MaryMidgley #mixedcommunity #findinghopeinmixedcommunity
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Back at the very special #dewisacre for more #philosophyinthewild ‘finding hope in mixed communities’ & this time - with the adults! It means the world to us that the adults relished this event, fell in love with the wisdom of #MaryMidgley & that Ned the cat was so happy & involved too 1/3
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Back in the garden, for #philosophyinthewild, which has been a truly #mixedcommunity garden this week! 🐑
@stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#PhilosophyMatters #MaryMidgley #Arts #Poetry #Hope #FindingHopeInMixedCommunities
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"Central to thinking about animals is the idea of community: a genuine unity of beings which are important to each other."
-Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction
#marymidgley #philsky
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"How to think involves how to live."
-Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction
#marymidgley #philsky
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So incredibly proud to be speaking at the @saperep4c.bsky.social
annual conference about our #PhilosophyInTheWild project inspired by the work of #MaryMidgley @inparenthesis.bsky.social
And a conference in my beloved #Wales!
#Midgley and #JudithHughes (Mary’s co-author for #WomensChoices) 1/3
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"The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world."
-Mary Midgley, Beast and Man
#marymidgley #philsky
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“Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.”
-Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By
#marymidgley #philsky
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"The trouble with human beings ([Butler] said) is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough."
-Mary Midgley, Utopias, Dolphins, and Computers
#marymidgley #philsky
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Here is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social public philosophy blog!
#marymidgley #philsky
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was promoting other authors and illustrators as much as drawing on parts of her own superb books for our workshop 3/3
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#Pembrokeshire #SummerHolidays #llangwmliteraryfestival #llangwmlitfest #GillLewis #MaryMidgley #booksly #philsky
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#philosophyinthewild #philsky #mixedcommunity #MaryMidgley #philosophy #multispeciespoetry #poetry #notesfromabiscuittin #humananimalrelations #Pembrokeshire
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After two fantastic workshops over the Easter break we now prepare for three more over the summer holidays and a talk and an exhibition! Stay tuned for imminent updates and ways to book and join us! @inparenthesis.bsky.social #philosophyinthewild #TeamPembs #MaryMidgley #MixedCommunity #philsky
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"We did not expect the earth to be vulnerable, capable of health or sickness, wholeness or injury. But it turns out that we were wrong: the earth is now unmistakably sick."
-Mary Midgley, Science and Poetry
#marymidgley #philsky #environment
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"It is not true, as has often been suggested, that we cannot be interested in anything unlike ourselves. Both poetry and science show us as being interested in all manner of unlike things."
-Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter
#marymidgley #philsky
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CapstoneProjects that truly have the spirit of #RachelCarson - whose work led to the establishment of #EarthDay! Blog features #SamanthaHarvey’s #Orbital #CharlotteMurchison #RachelCarson #SilentSpring #MaryMidgley #GaiaHypothesis #JamesLovelock 2/2 www.catalyst.winchestercollege.org/blog/thinkin...
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"Inequalities above one's own level tend to be visible: those below it to be hidden."
-Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter
#marymidgley #philsky
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