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(Summer Wind Apartment Homes) In the News: Opelika Location for Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux
The Capps Landing development off Interstate 85’s exit 58 is bustling with construction, which has left many to speculate. We know one thing for sure. There’s projected to be an Opelika location for Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux coming soon! Opelika’s Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux According to a recent report, the news is official. While no building permits…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on ISME 2022: “Cross-Cultural Encounters” by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, I already have one of those options covered. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MacIntyre, Individualism, and Modern Moral Philosophy by David Potts
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Hi Irfan, Thanks for your reply. I think your points about Plato and Aristotle are well-taken. I confess I didn’t try to make any such points myself because to do so, I would need to delve into exactly what MacIntyre sa…
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(The GiveWell Blog) June 2022 open thread
Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section). As always, you’re also welcome to email us at info@givewell.org or to request a call with GiveWell staff if you have feedback or questions you’d prefer…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MacIntyre, Individualism, and Modern Moral Philosophy by Michael Brazier
In reply to David Potts. Would it surprise you to learn that MacIntyre is familiar with Bernard Williams, and that he thinks, as you do, that Williams is correct – to a first approximation? Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity discusses him at so…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, June 10, 2022
Fireside this week! I expect to lean a bit more on Firesides than in the next few months as I am hoping to use the summer to make progress on my book project, which of course is going to impact the speed with which I can deliver you all the 5000-9000 word essays that tend…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MacIntyre, Individualism, and Modern Moral Philosophy by David Potts
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Oops! Well, that was a boo-boo. But, in fairness to myself, I will just add that the links to prosocial virtues here are ideological, not structural. Thus, being a Quaker may commit one to pacifism, which should count as a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MacIntyre, Individualism, and Modern Moral Philosophy by David Potts
In reply to Michael Brazier. Hi Michael, Yes, that is a nice passage, and I agree that it says pretty much what the one I quoted says. The difference is that whereas mine stressed “a certain role in a certain kind of social life” as the antecedent cond…
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(Policy of Truth) resenting you, rationally
Suppose I believe that you have insulted me unprovoked and I have some, but not sufficient, reason for this belief (we’ll be setting aside entirely whether you have actually insulted me unprovoked and hence whether my resenting you for what you have done would be correct). In a certain familiar sense, it is not rational…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MacIntyre, Individualism, and Modern Moral Philosophy by Michael Brazier
In reply to David Potts. Perhaps another quote from MacIntyre would help? This is from Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: A second, closely related example concerns the genesis of the distinctively moral ‘ought’. The variety of words tr…
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