It really doesn't help that I feel so fragmented. I sit down with half an hour to do something before I need to do something else. So I keep thinking thoughts like, well, what do I actually think about this? Like, for example, the benefits to not taking a monistic theoretical approach to ethics. And then I think of all that I would have to read and understand and explain to defend that position and I just can't face it.
That's why I can never be certain about anything. I see the track and think, well, if i followed it with deep concentration for a few hours, days, weeks, I might get somewhere. But I don't have a few hours, days, weeks. In forty minutes I need to take the dog out or go to work or voice something or write something or hang up the laundry or have a little rest.
Ultimately, everything is just a suggestion, a hint pointing that way and certainty is just too far out of reach. Besides which, I know that if I start pursuing this track, I will see something more appealing off to the left and then what? Which way? I dither back and forth. Get nowhere. Go back to the start. See something on the right. Repeat. Restart. Give up.
I think, once the football season is over, and the Euro. And then I will have a whole month. Can I then sit down to consider what I might do for a dissertation?
I had thought about considering our vices and virtues with animals. And this article encouraged me to think on that again. In relationship with animals. What animals tell us about ourselves... but it's just not practical ethics. I need to write something like how germline gene editing should be considered under public health ethics. FFS.
Tracking. Must invest the hours, days and weeks.
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