Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport: “Boycott Anti-Choice States” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to John Davenport. (Responding to John Davenport) For reasons I offered to Michael Young above, I don’t think it’s advisable to have any legal restrictions on later abortions. Late abortions are generally done for medical reasons (…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport: “Boycott Anti-Choice States” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. I think women are obligated not to abort developed-enough fetuses (and that enforcing this obligation forcibly, via law, is a prima facie reasonable option). They’re obligated not to abort fetuses even when it’s med…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Teaching Machiavelli in Palestine by Irfan Khawaja
Questions from the NASSP conference (July 2022), answers forthcoming. (1) Why aren’t students simply right that Israel is following the strategy of fragmentation as opposed to the strategy of assimilation in the West Bank? (Michael Buckley) (2) H…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Virtue, Happiness, and the Greeks: Burdened Interpretations by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I just happened to take a week-long intensive course on Lacan-influenced psychoanalysis (which is why I’ve been so absent for the last week). The course was officially on the thought of the Israeli psychoanalyst Brac…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Virtue, Happiness, and the Greeks: Burdened Interpretations by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Even as I wrote that comment, it occurred to me that I was leaning too heavily on “relatively” in the sentence, “Assessing how one’s life stacks up in terms of external goods is a relatively trivial or ob…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Virtue, Happiness, and the Greeks: Burdened Interpretations by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Responding to your 7/25, 11:21 am comment: yes, I think we now agree. And I agree that my use of “mirroring was ambiguous. But I think the very interpretation you give of Tessman (which I agree with) answers the conc…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Spice Opera by Erik
In reply to Neil. Agreed
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Aristotle’s Table of Elements by Samantha
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part II: Foraging
This is the second part of a three part (I, II, III) look at some of the practical concerns of managing pre-industrial logistics. In our last post we outlined the members of our ‘campaign community,’ including soldiers but also non-combatants and animals (both war- and draft-); they required massive amounts of supplies, particularly food but…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Gulp
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