Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. What’s your interpretation of it? Her official position on music, after all, is that “no objectively valid criterion of esthetic judgment is possible in the field of music.” So “Mozart is pre-music&…
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(QC RSS) The Vindictive Type
Just in case
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Structural Racism and Individual Choice
A story this week in the New York Times about the Minneapolis school district raised some interesting questions about racism, liberalism, and individualism. The story explains how Minneapolis school officials “assigned families to new school zones, redrawing boundaries to take socioeconomic diversity — and as a consequence, racial diversity — into account.” This is in…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I never thought she meant it literally. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety by Irfan Khawaja
[Rand’s] claim that Mozart belongs to the age of “pre-music” also makes her a particularly extreme Newer Art partisan. I’m not sure she really said that, or if she did, that she meant what people take her to mean. As for whether she said i…
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(QC RSS) House Call
It’s: Yay
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety by Irfan Khawaja
That post was a piece of art–whether Older or Newer, I couldn’t say. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety
Every time (or nearly every) that a new artistic style or movement emerges (in literature, think e.g. of romanticism or naturalism or modernism; in painting, think of impressionism or cubism or abstraction), it’s accompanied by two narratives. One narrative comes from defenders of the Older Art. The burden of this narrative is that the Newer…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. On the positive side, at least I’ll have a place to live. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Haidt—The Righteous Mind, Chs. 7 & 8 by “Leftists are Motivated by Self-Interest and Envy, Not Compassion: The Evidence” a rough transcript of a video by Edward Dutton – The Orthosphere
[…] [2] https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.com/2016/08/18/haidt-the-righteous-mind-chs-7-8/ […] LikeLike
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