Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to EissaMo (@EissaMo8). I’m not a realist, so I don’t disagree. Mearsheimer’s argument has to be put on a non-realist footing in the way that leftists like Chomsky and Lieven have tried to do, and some libertarians have also …

More on “Western” double standards: https://mondoweiss.net/2022/03/wests-response-to-russian-invasion-demolishes-excuses-for-rejecting-bds-against-apartheid-israel/ LikeLike

In reply to Michael Brazier. I invoke Kant every now and then, but I’m not a Kantian. I do think that moral duties are binding, but not that one. The duty we have is to reduce our complicity in the myriad injustices we’re already involved i…

In reply to boydstun. Apropos of your comment, a nuclear simulation from Princeton University’s Science & Global Security Program: https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a LikeLike

A non-realist critique of intervention in Ukraine, care of Anatole Lieven in Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/doug-henwood-anatol-lieven-ukraine-russia-putin-sanctions-nuclear-war-history LikeLike

This is an amusing counter-example to Sher’s discussion of merit-based gardening: LikeLike

I don’t agree with this, but found it relevant and interesting, so thought I’d put it here (ht: Russell Arben Fox), by Abraham Riesman, in Slate: https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/03/job-torah-story-despair-alternative-war-democracy-cli…

A good article on Mearsheimer in The New Statesman (ht: Michael Young): https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/03/john-mearsheimer-and-the-dark-origins-of-realism LikeLike