Category: Substack
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Polity and Comity
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Four Notes on the Gun Debate for the Reasonable
Substack latest. This post has a prerequisite: a modicum of rationality and a little bit of good will. The irrational and ill-willed should head for their 'safe spaces' now lest they be 'triggered.'
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Simone Weil in the Light of Plato
Substack notes on Phaedo 83. Thomas Merton, Journals, vol. 4, p. 57 (10 October 1960): The superb moral and positive beauty of the Phaedo. One does not have to agree with Plato, but one must hear him. Not to listen to such a voice is unpardonable, it is like not listening to conscience or nature. Absolutely right.…
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Elias Canetti on Greta Thunberg
Five second read!
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The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover
Top of the Stack. It concludes: You may recall the case of Timothy Treadwell, who camped among grizzlies, and whose luck ran out. In an Outside article, the author, Doug Peacock, reports that Treadwell "told people he would be honored to 'end up in bear scat.'" And in his last letter, Treadwell refers to the grizzly as…
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The Paltry Mentality of the Copy Editor
At the head of the Stack this fine morning.
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Questions about Global Warming
Crisis or hoax? How much of which? At the top of the Stack. …………….. Ed Buckner writes, I can help with your first three questions. 1. Is global warming (GW) occurring? 2. If yes to (1), is it naturally irreversible, or is it likely to reverse itself on its own? And if irreversible, how would…
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Simone Weil on False Gods
Over at Substack. If you haven't made the acquaintance of Simone Weil, may I introduce you?
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Of ‘Blind Review’ and Pandora’s Box
Tony Flood sent me here for the latest outrage at Stanford. But this crapola is old hat. On April Fool's Day, 2014, I worked myself into a fine lather over it. The latter manifested itself as a rant that is now available for your delectation at the top of my (Sub)stack. You will enjoy it.…
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A Sketch of Armstrong’s Naturalism
And some reasons to question it. Top of the (Sub)stack. ……………………… Expositing Armstrong, I wrote The exclusion of so-called abstract entities or abstract objects such as mathematical sets, unexemplified universals, and numbers from the roster of the real is because of their lack of causal power. What causal role could they play? And…
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Remembering Albert Camus . . .
. . . and one whose hero he was. Substack latest.
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Galen Strawson on God
Substack latest. Does the fact of evil render the nonexistence of God certain? ……………. Tony Flood comments: A good one, Bill. Bahnsen held that atheists, having no reason for affirming an absolute moral standard (which evil offends) can't even frame a problem of evil. He also held that the classic argument you summarized is missing a premise: God could…