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(QC RSS) What’s Bugging Aurelia
house centipedes are our friends. our creepy, disturbing little friends.
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(xkcd.com) Monocaster
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (1/6) by Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (2/6) | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (2/6)
For part 1 of this series, go here. 2. Republicanism and/vs. liberalism Central to Pettit’s book is a contrast between republicanism and liberalism. The contrast is useful, but complicated by several terminological complexities. In colloquial American parlance, we often contrast the ideology of the Republican Party with that of liberalism, itself associated with the Democratic…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sad Sunday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom, 9/8/24 Phantom was growing increasingly vexed That the proles would identify him as John X. So…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Defiant Trespass” at Princeton by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. True, but if we could get him a copy signed by the author, it’d be a nice birthday gift. Better yet, TWO copies signed by the author, so he could keep one and sell one. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on McCormick-Taber Seminar in Philosophy Redux by Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (1/6) | Policy of Truth
[…] been discussing Philip Pettit’s Republicanism in our online discussion group since March of this year. Our July 21 meeting focused on Chapter 5, “Republican Aims and […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (1/6)
Introduction We’ve been discussing Philip Pettit’s Republicanism in our online discussion group since March of this year. Our July 21 meeting focused on Chapter 5, “Republican Aims and Policies”: “what a state ought to achieve, and what form it ought to assume, in the modern world” (Republicanism, p. 129). Chapter 5 is the first of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Defiant Trespass” at Princeton by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Right–but Gary doesn’t need a copy of Cicero’s De Officiis! LikeLike
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