Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. On Mengele: I suppose it’s possible to condemn Mengele with equal harshness on either view you describe, but I incline to the second view. What Mengele did was not really medicine at all. Likewise, the Tuskegee exper…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. @Roderick: I intentionally bypassed Aristotle’s view of victory. When I referred to the “classic view,” I didn’t so much mean “the view we inherit from classical antiquity” as “a c…

In reply to Michael Brazier. @Michael Brazier: Even on your reading, if “Is it rational to begin this war?” is a matter of policy, and grand strategy involves an overlap of policy and the narrower aspects of strategy, it still follows that …

In reply to boydstun. I don’t know why one could not be drawn to “First” as in relation to the earlier context of “No such thing has happened” rather than as in relation to one coming after the First. I’ll find out. …

In reply to boydstun. Thanks again, Roderick, for the papers by Mann. I see that Mann’s writings at the time of WWI on that war as well his writings relating to WWII after it finished are folded into Rudiger Safranski’s ROMANTICISM – …

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I saw “Melancholia” soon after it came out, and “enjoyed” it, to my great surprise. (I’m not sure anyone can really “enjoy” it, but I don’t know what other word to use.) I&#8…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Sci-fi isn’t really my taste, but of the two films I’ve “recently” seen that involve extra-terrestrials, “Contact” and “Arrival,” I found both pretty enthralling without quit…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I wasn’t clear on whether Holzer and Rand were both listed as authors of the review, or whether Holzer was listed and Rand was inferred on “stylometric” grounds as an unlisted ghost author/editor. Assumin…

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