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Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Theory (Politics) on Feb 18th, 2010
So, to prove that I hadn’t just made up the Bizarre Ontology — but rather that it was something that people actually believe — I used the “frontispiece” from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan.
Now, I would like to use Hobbes’ main philosophical rival, John Locke.
Locke writes (Second Treatise, Section 145):
For though in a commonwealth the members of [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy), Events (Politics), Theory (Politics) on Feb 4th, 2010
(Don’t you think?)
You may recall my recent discussions of the “Bizarre Ontology” that makes individuals responsible for things other people in their “group” do — even when they disagree with what those other people are doing — because it treats groups as the primary reality of which individuals are mere appendages or manifestations.
You also may [...]
Posted in Ethics (Philosophy), Theory (Politics) on Jan 25th, 2010
This is something I keep thinking about as the health care debate continues to drag on. This is what I’ve got so far.
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Table of Contents
I. Quintads
II. Active and Passive, Fore and Aft
A. Active and Passive Rights
B. Fore and Aft Quintads
C. Active and Passive Duties
III. Transferable Duties
IV. The Coherence of Quintads
A. Two Kinds of Coherence
B. Digression [...]
Posted in Events (Politics) on Jan 21st, 2010
While we’re on the subject of ontologies in which groups are seen as things . . . .
The Supreme Court decided yesterday that corporations are allowed to talk about politics after all.
Well, actually, five members of the Supreme Court decided that yesterday.
Of course, the real question isn’t should corporations be allowed to talk about politics, [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Theory (Politics) on Jan 20th, 2010
You remember last post? The one where I said that many people hold to a “bizarre ontology” that claims, “The separate individuals you see are really just manifestations of the group, which is the reality that lies behind them and acts through them (and upon whom you act through the individuals you see)”?
Remember that one?
Okay, [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy), Events (Politics) on Jan 11th, 2010
While I’m on the topic of terrorism, The Wife sent me a link to this article, called “Moderate Muslims? We’re Everywhere.”
It’s by Dr. Eboo Patel, director of Interfaith Youth Core, blogger for the Washington Post, and “member of President Barack Obama Administration’s new Faith Advisory Council” (Wikipedia).
In it, Dr. Patel expresses his frustration with the [...]
Posted in Events (Politics) on Jan 7th, 2010
All I know about her is that she’s old and has been in the White House Press Corps forever.
That is, until today. Today she became my hero.
All I know about her now is that she’s old and has been in the White House Press Corps forever and she knows how to ask the most important [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Politics on Dec 19th, 2009
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As I was wandering about the office the other day, I noticed two copies of The Intercollegiate Review sitting on a table in the waiting area.
IR is a publication of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, [...]
Posted in Ethics (Philosophy), Scripture (Religion), Theory (Politics) on Dec 3rd, 2009
I’m listening now to Dr. John D. Currid’s lectures on “Judges through Poets” from RTS.
To set the background for Judges, he’s discussing Joshua, and the Israelite invasion of the Promised Land.
This, naturally, leads to the problem of what appears to be not only God-sanctioned, but God-instructed genocide.
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Moses, claiming to be speaking for God — [...]
I keep hearing people refer to conservatives as “the Right.”
I keep hearing conservatives refer to themselves as “the Right.”
Why frame the debate between yourself and the other side in the same terms as the European socialists — who gave the world the horrors not only of the USSR (and China, by proxy) but of Fascist [...]
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