Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics, religion on Nov 12th, 2007
(The Taliban did it. The Iranian leadership does it. Chavez does it. The founders of Communist Russia and China did it. Americans do it.)
An idea developed in the modern period (between 1600 and 1900, say) that religion (i.e., morality) and politics can be kept separate. As I’ve discussed before (here and here, for instance), what [...]
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics on Nov 10th, 2007
I was reading a post yesterday about voting your principles rather than voting pragmatically (which reminds me of all that Clinton stuff). It was a fellow Christian who, unlike myself, is a Huckabee supporter in the mode of James Dobson. You’d be violating your principles if you, like Pat Robertson, went for Giuliani, said said [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Talk Shows, politics, radio on Oct 31st, 2007
Socrates and Limbaugh are both about equally difficult to get. (”Hey, there’s some guy who thinks Rush Limbaugh is Socrates.”) Give me a minute to explain what I mean:
1. Socratic Irony
Time and again, Socrates meets someone in Plato’s dialogs who claims to know something, acts pleased to discover that he’s in for a lesson, then [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2007
My wife, having just run across this article: Romney wins straw poll at Values Voters Summit, requested that I defend her. She wouldn’t fit in at such a summit, you see, even though she votes her values.
I’m her husband, so defending her is my job. And being a musician, I take requests.
Here goes:
Every now and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2007
A theme of late here has been my interactions with the idea of political identity, and pdxstudent’s informed responses (here, here, and here) that there’s something artificially limiting about labeling yourself through the idea of “identity.”
Thus, the following stories caught my eye:
GOP rivals argue who’s most conservative
Colbert says his U.S. presidential run is no joke
Dumbledore [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2007
I promised to say something about why I thought the political identity test was flawed.
To begin, I think the test is actually pretty good.
It’s better than the idea that everybody’s either Liberal or Conservative. I’m not sure how they decided where on the graph to draw the lines, but they seem to fall in reasonable [...]
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