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In reply to djr. Click to access character-dispo.pdf LikeLike

In reply to djr. I can in the sense that I have the capacity. But right now, I’m upside down and on my phone so it’s uncommonly difficult. Stand by. LikeLike

[…] enthusiasm for cancellation. “Mulan”? Yes. “Cuties”? No. Difference? “Mulan” involves clear complicity in wrongdoing; as far as I can tell, “Cuties” does […] LikeLike

One of the worst features of “anti-cancel culture” is the strange moral indiscriminateness that lies behind it. Cancellation is merely a tactic or technique. Unless a tactic is somehow intrinsically immoral, or so transparently unjust that it couldn’t serve any legitimate end, you’d think that the value of a tactic was determined by the value…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Can you (or someone) share a link to said paper? LikeLike

On a somewhat related topic, I’ve finally gotten around to reading your paper on why virtues are not reducible to dispositions. Having just re-read NE I-IV, I think I’m pre-disposed to agree with you. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Weren’t you very nearly an Interim Dean at your beloved former institution? LikeLike

So it sounds like this Chartier guy is some kind of administrator? I mean, yeah, we want diversity on the blog, but are there no limits? LikeLike

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