Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Cat and Girl) Cat and Girl Get a Complex!
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Policy of Truth) The Beautiful People
Is it legitimate to criticize someone’s physical appearance? I don’t mean: is it legitimate to have or even express personal preferences about someone’s physical appearance. I mean: is it legitimate to issue an objective verdict on someone for looking the way they do, e.g., criticizing the very structure of a person’s face for giving them…
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(QC RSS) Strong-Arming
they’d punch holes in the floor
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Call me for anything
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Waco Revisited by Connie Rosati on “The Lincoln Virtues” | Policy of Truth
[…] ***Debates still rage about what happened at Waco, but I regard the findings of the so-called Danforth Report as conclusive. My most recent thoughts on Waco can be found in this 2018 post. […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Connie Rosati on “The Lincoln Virtues”
I spent the weekend at the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) Central Division meeting in Denver, my first APA, believe it or not, since 2011. It was a good time, certainly a welcome relief from my day job in health care revenue cycle management. The APA is always punctuated, if that’s the right word, by a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Sins of the Father by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Hazony should laud the non-adherent Catholic clergy, since they had two sorts of life-experiences that the adherent ones lacked, and that he so loudly seems to valorize. One is the experience of having children. The other …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Sins of the Father by Roderick T. Long
“the adherent popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and nuns of Roman Catholicism ‘never had children,’ either” Well, they weren’t supposed to, but some of them did. Pope Alexander VI, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/…
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(QC RSS) Practicalities And Eventualities
worries
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(Policy of Truth) The Sins of the Father
Below the fold is a short letter of mine in Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), responding to a critique by Yoram Hazony of “liberalism” in an earlier article in PAW. I kept the letter brief to maximize the chances of its getting printed, but there’s more to say; I’ll say it here when I get the…
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