Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Neutrality Loathsome by Roderick T. Long
Or as the Buddha says in the Qur’an: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” (Revelation …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Frederick G.H. Fayen II, RIP by Neutrality Loathsome | Policy of Truth
[…] best teachers I had were authentically themselves in class, not robots replaceable by other robots. Being authentically themselves, they candidly […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Robert Hollander, RIP by Neutrality Loathsome | Policy of Truth
[…] best teachers I had were authentically themselves in class, not robots replaceable by other robots. Being authentically […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John M. Cooper, RIP by Neutrality Loathsome | Policy of Truth
[…] best teachers I had were authentically themselves in class, not robots replaceable by other robots. Being […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Pedagogy Under Occupation” Revisited by Neutrality Loathsome | Policy of Truth
[…] I’ve just described is not the safeguard against indoctrination it pretends to be. (Indeed, “indoctrination” is not the transparent concept people so often take it to be.) Taken literally, it’s […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Postcards from Abu Dis (2): Pedagogy Under Occupation by Neutrality Loathsome | Policy of Truth
[…] constructive criticism) than the college students I briefly encountered in Pakistan or taught in Palestine. By comparison with students in these impoverished and highly repressive places, American students […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Neutrality Loathsome
Either be hot, or cold: God doth despise, Abhorre, and spew out all Neutralities. –Robert Herrick, “Neutrality Loathsome“ When I taught college-level philosophy, one of the biggest obstacles to teaching, and particularly to successful class discussion, was students’ fear of dealing with controversial issues in class. Despite the bragging that Americans like to do about…
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(QC RSS) Destroying Angel
don’t just eat mushrooms you find
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(QC RSS) Tortoiseportation
zzzzap
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its constituent parts in this part, before moving…
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