Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Law & Liberty) The World That Christianity Made
Holland is not a believer, but he does want the West, and the woke, to acknowledge their reliance on St. Paul’s belief that a crucified criminal was God.
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(Law & Liberty) The Inescapable Particularity of Strong Gods
The irony is that the problem with Reno’s argument is the problem that Reno identifies as liberalism’s fatal flaw, the absence of particularity.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) The Lash and the Loophole
The poet ibn Harma performed for the Prince of the Muslims and so delighted was the Caliph with his performance that he said “name your reward.” The poet replied, “the reward I wish from the Prince of the Muslims is that he should send instructions to his officials in the city of Medina, commanding that…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Doing It with Style: Jason Brennan on the History of Philosophy by Nightcap | Notes On Liberty
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on War with Iran (16): The Headaches of War by Irfan Khawaja
Now up to 100 injuries from that one attack weeks ago: LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Doing It with Style: Jason Brennan on the History of Philosophy by Irfan Khawaja
I don’t see how that addresses what I wrote. There’s a big difference between someone’s “apparently” having lots of contradictory ideas and actually having them, and between being “at least seemingly contradictory…
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(QC RSS) Renee Tries
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Doing It with Style: Jason Brennan on the History of Philosophy by Jason Brennan
Sorry, the point was that people are always pointing out tensions in thought in the big thinkers, as they apparently have lots of contradictory ideas–or at least seemingly contradictory. This is evidence against Kevin’s claim that what̵…
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(Policy of Truth) Doing It with Style: Jason Brennan on the History of Philosophy
From a recent contribution by Jason Brennan to the ongoing polemic between Michael Huemer and Kevin Vallier on the history of philosophy (as posted at BHL at 2:45 pm, February 11, 2020): Context: Michael Huemer claims that the “great” philosophers are usually bad thinkers. They defend implausible ideas with bad arguments. Vallier responds that the great philosophers…
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(Cat and Girl) Old Story
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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