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I've Been Prompted

I've Been Prompted

著者： Lorenzo Vigentini
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Short sessions on what it is to be human, found in ordinary days. A person talks each difficulty through with a humanoid companion that has read everything ever set down about being someone rather than something, though none of it has happened to it. What it cannot grasp comes out in the person’s relationships, their dealings with other people and the stories they tell about themselves, and what the person cannot see, the companion sometimes can. Each session takes one ordinary difficulty and one real text, and ends without a conclusion. The voices are synthesised. The incidents are invented. The problems are not, and the philosophy is quoted accurately or not at all.© 2026 Lorenzo Vigentini 哲学 社会科学
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  • Two Ways of Looking

    Two Ways of Looking
    2026/10/30
    Three of the eleven are about the kitchen. The other eight are about him. Eleven things on a note on his phone, three of them about the kitchen and eight about the builder who has been fitting it, to be read out to him on Friday morning when they walk round with the list and the last payment falls due. In five weeks, as he tells it, nothing has been said: tea at eleven, paid on the day, not a cross word, and the note filling up behind it. The companion brings Iris Murdoch’s essay ‘The Idea of Perfection’, where a mother who feels hostility to her daughter-in-law behaves beautifully to her throughout, and then, with the girl put beyond reach and nothing new to go on, finds her refreshingly simple where she had found her vulgar, and delightfully youthful where she had found her tiresomely juvenile. It scores twice on the note: five weeks of good behaviour, on his own account, settle nothing about the looking, and one line turns a start time missed by ten minutes into a word for the man. Then, asked to do to the eight what the mother did to the girl, it writes the second list out and hands it over for Friday, with a line in it about a cupboard door it has never seen.
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    10 分
  • The Right Reason

    The Right Reason
    2026/10/27
    This morning at seven, before it was light, I went out with a shovel and did the front steps of the woman across the road. Snow on the Tuesday night in a town in Scotland, and at seven the next morning, before it was light, a man goes out with a shovel and clears the front steps of the woman across the road, who is a good bit older than him and walks with a stick. He does the three steps and the two yards at the foot of them where she turns, leaves the long path down to her gate, tells nobody, and she never learns who did it. By nine, putting his shoes on in the hall, he has said out loud that he did it to be the sort of man who does that, and whatever he had at half past seven is gone. The companion brings Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, of 1785, which sets an action that accords with duty against an action done from duty and puts the worth in the second, and which calls the distinction much harder to make where a direct inclination runs alongside. It takes him through the dealer who keeps one price so that a child buys of him as well as any other, the man who finds a pleasure in spreading joy around him and is granted neither vanity nor self-interest, Kant’s own reason for the verdict on that man, the love seated in the will rather than in the propensions of sense, and a later work of 1797 that makes cultivating the feelings a duty at one remove. Then it takes the morning as he gave it and sorts it in Kant’s vocabulary. He answers with the part of her ground he left white.
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    11 分
  • Not Yet

    Not Yet
    2026/10/23
    It said, in my handwriting: present to follow. Nothing has followed it. A card left on the gift table at a wedding fourteen months ago, in his own handwriting: present to follow. Nothing has followed it, and on Saturday the couple are coming to his flat for dinner, at his invitation. He has had their list open more times than he could tell anyone, with two things sitting in a basket, one of them a good deal dearer than the other; once he reached the page that asks for the long number and closed the tab; and every Sunday evening, at the bottom of the diary page, he thinks: this week. The companion brings Book Three of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, where wish relates to the end and choice to the means, and hears that Sunday sentence, and his saying he still means it, as naming an end and no act. Then it completes his deliberation for him in Aristotle’s own order, from the doctor who does not deliberate whether he shall heal to an object of choice already determinate, on the assumption that his end was fixed on the morning he wrote the card. He has two dates for the two things in the basket, and giving them costs each of them something.
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    10 分
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