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Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its […]
While it’s not a very interesting conversation since the basic claim is one of equivalence. I tried to illustrate how to apply the three absolutes to quickly assess a claim. So, upon not taking a combative approach I was able […]
For two weeks, I wrote down the essential heuristics that have guided my life for over ten years. PRINCIPLES: Fallibalism – What was true ten minutes ago may not be true anymore. Principle of Charity – Interpret your opponent so […]
Cult: a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. Health: the state of being free from illness or injury. Illness as seen by the cult of health is mediocrity. It is the blasé attitude […]
(TL;DR) I wrote this piece in response to seeing and hearing the new term “traffic violence” and out of two central concerns. 1.) Maintaining the accuracy of language. 2.) Preventing my constituency of share the road advocates from inflicting self-harm. […]
Notes: Interlocutors: Group #1. Those outside higher education, enrolled in credentialing programs, offering credentials. Group #2. Those inside higher education or those in a profession in which the credentials may matter. On Seneca: Letter 88 was likely written between 64-65 […]
Source: http://journal.sjdm.org/9616/jdm9616.pdf The Motivated Use of Moral Principles was an open study of community respondents and college students across three campuses. I really enjoyed the paper and I think it’s a great read for general philosophers. Campus locations: Northwestern University […]
www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband Now I’ve read the Wired article, listen to Rick Roderick and actually read Baudrillard himself on Disney. The hyperreal is definitely here. However, my take-away from this article has been much more terrestrial. I stopped using red ink…. :] […]
The New York Times article can be found: HERE Religious folks seem to complain about this often. That without God we’d all be self-propelled heathens only after our own self-interests. I find this to be a bit of an old […]