Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A thought on Gaza by Irfan Khawaja
“If I’m missing something, and being uncharitable to Hamas, someone can explain that to me, but as things stand, I don’t see any reasons for charity toward them.” Me, responding to myself nine and a half years later: You were definitely mis…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Plea for Ceasefire and Hostage Exchange by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mosckerr. This comment would ordinarily go straight into my “Junk” folder, but if I put it there, I couldn’t show it to my assimilated Jewish ex-wife. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Radical Theology: An Introduction to Karl Barth” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mosckerr. I’ve approved this comment, not because it deserves to be approved, but in the interests of transparency: I just want to make clear to you that when I get comments like this (including any response you give to what I’m…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bi’l Haq, B’Sabr by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mosckerr. I belatedly saw this comment and approved it. In general, I don’t approve your comments, because I feel no obligation to permit you to colonize my blog with your off-topic ravings. But when your propaganda is on topic, there…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Sunstein versus Hayek on the Rule of Law by Irfan Khawaja
This post is illuminating and thought-provoking. I don’t know Sunstein or Hayek’s work well enough to comment directly on their views, but the post provokes a thought on the rule of law that I think applies to both of them, and probably to Fuller as we…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bi’l Haq, B’Sabr by mosckerr
Time to make a forced population transfer of Arabs living in E. Jerusalem and Samaria to Gaza. Like the post War Allies removed 14 million Germans from the Czech Republic and Poland after Hitler denounced the “stolen occupied territories”. Time to perm…
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(Policy of Truth) Sunstein versus Hayek on the Rule of Law
We’ve been doing some philosophy of law in the PoT reading group lately, and a recent piece came up by Cass Sunstein on “The Rule of Law.” The abstract claims that “this [Sunstein’s] account of the rule of law conflicts with those offered by (among many others) Friedrich Hayek and Morton Horwitz, who conflate the…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a ‘shield wall’ and what isn’t comes down to…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on From Apartheid to Genocide: Israel in Gaza by butimbeautiful
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, if I wanted to move I’d have the same problem. LikeLike
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