Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Ethics (Philosophy), Politics on Aug 24th, 2008
And I just figured out why.
If you, like Ms. Lopez, think that we’re all killers, and you support the death penalty, then you might think we all deserve to be executed.
(After all, you never know whom you’re going to kill next. You only find out after the fact [since you weren't there at the time] [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy) on Aug 24th, 2008
The reason why discussions about war are impossible to hold with any civility is that statements like the following — even from supporters of whatever war is in question — so often get said:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: “We have killed people in Iraq, after all.”
Ms. Lopez is the editor of National Review Online. I usually agree [...]
Posted in Life, Philosophy on Aug 12th, 2008
People often ask me that when I tell them what I’m doing my dissertation on.
Here it is in a nutshell:
Phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience.
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That is its essence. But instead of description-by-essence, I could use contextual description:
It was developed by Edmund Husserl in his attempt to reach a full understanding of mathematics [...]
Posted in Life, Linguistics (Philosophy) on Jul 31st, 2008
Try the following:
1. Say the following syllables as, one word, to someone else:
“paw eep”
(where “paw” rhymes with “law,” and “eep” with “keep”)
Then ask your interlocutor what word it sounded like you said.
2. Say the following syllables as, one word, to someone else:
“beh eeb”
(where “beh” would be how Obama says “be,” and “eeb” rhymes with, um, [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Religion on Jul 26th, 2008
To balance out the cursing kitteh in my previous post, here’s a video (h/t Tim) of the pastor/author Timothy Keller, discussing his book, The Reason for God, at Google:
Tim Keller @ Google
I’ve only made it to 42:07, but after my most recent article, some of you might be in the mood for thinking more about [...]
Posted in Culture, Life, Philosophy, Politics, Religion on Jul 24th, 2008
My weekly article is up at The Free Liberal.
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UPDATE: It would seem today’s article makes 51 since I began writing online pieces last August. See the revamped Articles Page for a complete list. (It now organizes articles by title in one section, and by [broad] topic in another. Yay!)
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Posted in Aesthetics (Philosophy) on Jul 23rd, 2008
I just have to say one thing:
Obama’s graphic design people are geniuses. (Check out Patrick Ruffini’s collection.)
They never cease to amaze me.
UPDATE: Walmart’s new logo is terrible.
Posted in Life, Philosophy on Jul 22nd, 2008
Due to some adventures The Wife and I have had over the past couple days, I am once again reminded that I shouldn’t be so worried about “determinism” whenever I hear some person or other compare the human brain with a computer.
If you’ve ever dealt with computers (which you have, or else you wouldn’t be [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Politics on Jul 17th, 2008
People who use the 2nd Amendment to to argue for gun restrictions usually/always make the following two mistakes:
They confuse:
reasons for the government’s not “infringing” a right with
reasons the right is a right in the first place.
They confuse:
reasons for the government’s not “infringing” a right with
the negative conditions for the government’s “infringing” a right
The right in [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Politics on Jul 16th, 2008
Thanks to Mr. Stevens for the inspiration for this week’s article over at The Free Liberal.
In it I develop the discussion from this post, reformulating some points, adding others, and accusing all nonvoters of being noncitizens (among other things). *grin*
We’ll see what people think. And we’ll see what I think after we see what people [...]
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