December 2011
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Dec 25th
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“And, really, what can one say about Objectivism? It isn’t so much a philosophy...”
– David Bentley Hart (The Trouble With Ayn Rand) (via davidwpritchard)
Dec 18th
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If eating meat is somehow morally reprehensible
logicallypositive: then why do we not get just as angry at dogs and other animals as we do people? Is this a real question? Really? Pretending that it is, two things come to mind: 1. Assigning moral responsibility to non-human animals is something of the middle-ages. But maybe we should level the playing field and, say, ask the state not to arrest people for trespassing unless we also...
Dec 15th
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“If there was no legitimate initial acquisition, then there can be no legitimate...”
– Will Kymlicka (‘Libertarianism’, in Contemporary Political Philosophy), my emphasis
Dec 15th
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nomind-allthought: I think it’s incredibly amusing when people reblog philulz’s post about trees and talk about all the functions that they have.   He was literally saying that they’re only value is in their function to sentient organisms, and it just supports what he says to go on and on about the various ecological duties that they perform.  He said that they have no inherent worth, which...
Dec 15th
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Louis C.K. Went Out On A Limb, And It Actually...
rocketboom: Sure, stand-up comedian Louis C.K. couldn’t stop the pirates, but the pirates also couldn’t stop him from making $500,000 with his $5 direct download experiment. When Mr. C.K. announced earlier this week that he was going to sell $5 direct downloads of his of his  show “Live at the Beacon Theater” without the help of a 3rd party distributor and without copyright or digital rights...
Dec 14th
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“It is a sort of rape and perversion of logic. But the extravagant pride of man...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
Dec 13th
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Getting it done
Turned in essay discussing McDowell’s dispositional moral realism and the phenomenology of evaluative experience. Accomplished miscellaneous important things. Made whisky sours, smoked pipe (Peterson’s De Luxe Mixture) and played Skyrim.
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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This is some fucking hyperreal Baudrillardian shit... →
workandentropy: It’s straight out of a Don DeLillo novel: A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one. At 11:30 p.m. the call to occupy the set went out on Twitter with the hash tag #Mockupy. Located at nearby Foley Square,...
Dec 12th
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Former Congressional staffers who helped author... →
wilwheaton: inothernews: (via BoingBoing) What a gigantic fucking shock. …
Dec 12th
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so-meta: Not only is there a pinnacle of “free thought,” but it can also be harnessed and flawlessly executed by 16 year olds! YOU TOO can master the philosophical and sociological complexity of all religion from any time period and any part of the planet! All you have to do is watch some videos of people yelling on YouTube and maybe buy a book! Try new atheism today!
Dec 12th
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Essay word count exceeded by 43%
Surprisingly, converting it to German with Google Translate didn’t help. I need another language where more words are compounded.
Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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“I remember when our church history prof, the last day of four years of classes,...”
– Richard Rohr (‘Plato or Jesus?’)
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Ethical objectivity?
I’m working on an (undergraduate) essay about moral objectivity, and I’m primarily concerned with whether any metaethical accounts can successfully posit existential mind independence of moral judgements whilst side-stepping the controversial metaphysics of traditional moral realism. I was going to focus on evaluating quasi-realism, but that’s starting to look less...
Dec 3rd
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“The responses given by Third World communities to the spread of capitalism have...”
– Arturo Escobar (‘Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World’ [1988]) This challenge is a worthy one, although its presuppositions are slightly troubling: namely, conflating modernisation theory with development, thereby homogenising...
Dec 2nd
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Skyrim > sleeping
Though I will regret it in a few hours when I have to get up and work on some essay on metaphysical problems in moral realism or something. Or something.
Dec 1st
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“The result of the rise of finance over the past 30 years has been the...”
– Ben Fine (‘Examining the Ideas of Globalisation and Development Critically: What Role for Political Economy?’)
Dec 1st
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