Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I just saw the 2010 Norwegian documentary, “Tears of Gaza,” a film about the Israeli military operation “Cast Lead” (2008-9). I don’t think of myself as a particularly squeamish person, but though the movie is only about 84 minutes long, it took me seven or eight sittings to get through it. I tried at first…

In reply to sean samis. It usually means “making completely explicit, down to the last detail.” Unfortunately, it has little to do with actual cash of the kind that buys, say, lunch or gas. LikeLike

I’ll have more to say on the subject topic, but for now I’m curious as to what you consider “the original text” in the discusssion about capitalization? It seems that you may be referring to _Mémoires de l’État de la Franc…

An additional step in Reform: HIRE MORE WOMEN. sean s. LikeLike

In reply to mlyoung57. In this context, what do you mean by “cashing out“? sean s. LikeLike

I just want to collect comments for now. I have another post brewing on this where I offer my own Yang-like solution, maybe next week. To answer the question at the end of Sean’s post: I use “ethics” and “morality” pretty…

To call it a eulogy of the south’s slavery system an extremely abstract view of the book. It was also highly critical of the antebellum south. Mitchell was not shy about pointing out things she thought the south did wrong, whether the mistakes we…

I take it that ‘Michael morally ought to keep his promise to Ami’ (call this P) is the right sort of proposition. Suppose I’m epistemically justified in believing this (say, because I know it). One way to get a true common property be…