Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, politics, religion on Jun 21st, 2008
Dr. Gene Chase, my academic advisor and mentor from my undergraduate days, pointed out to me that my friend from the same era, Anthony DeRosa, has written up some thoughts that are rather consonant with my own re the legalization of same-sex marriage.
I tried to leave a comment over at Anthony’s blog, but the log-in [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, politics on Jun 18th, 2008
. . . so imagine what constitutional “liberalism” might condone.*
As indicated before, I have one more article on same-sex marriage and the California Supreme Court decision. You can read it here.
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*Hint: It might not be considered all that “liberal.”
Posted in politics on Feb 20th, 2008
The final of the three responses to de Jasay’s essay have been posted (my summaries here, here, and here), and the interlocutors have moved into the second and third rounds of response.
It is not necessary to have read de Jasay’s essay to read Barnett’s. It’s not really a response to the essay, but to the [...]
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It’s as good as any politician’s speech on religion that I’ve ever heard, and is far better than most attempts by politicians to deal with religion.
It is evidence of the following fact:
Politics is founded upon — and takes its ongoing motive force from — value judgments. Therefore, political theory and moral-/value-/ethical-theory are inseparable.
The question [...]
Fred Thompson (my favorite Republican presidential candidate, along with Rudy Giuliani) has just announced his tax plan. Woo! Nothing like tax-talk to get you going in the morning.
It’ll somehow be optional (that is, you can stick with the current system if you want), and will only have two brackets: 10% and 25%.
Seems closer to what [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Science, politics on Nov 20th, 2007
This is the modernist view of history:
Thinkers in the modern era saw history as a continual progress. Think of Darwinists (ever higher and more complex forms of life!) and Hegel (ever higher and more rational forms of mind!) and Politicians (ever more expansive, rational, and peaceful forms of society!).
Christians in the Modern Era had this [...]
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