Category: Substack
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Nagel on Evolutionary Naturalism and the Fear of Religion
Substack latest.
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The End of Moderation
Top o' the Stack
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On the Gender-Neutral Use of ‘Man’
Top o' the Stack. Roger Donway writes, As I understand it, there are no "gender-neutral" nouns or pronouns in English. There is the masculine gender, the feminine gender, the neuter gender, and the common gender. The last applies to entities which have sex, but in contexts where both sexes are included or the sex is…
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Don’t Let the Best Become the Enemy of the Good!
Top o' the Stack.
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A Theory of Hell
The 'pleasures' of hell explained over at Substack.
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It Used to be Hard to be a Good Catholic
Substack latest. Another taste of John Fante with a bit of commentary. Tony Flood comments, "A priest is now authorized to bless the fornicating couple who recently befouled a Senate hearing room."
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The Day Bukowski Discovered John Fante
Stack leader.
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Some ‘Tweets’ on Free Speech
Top o' the Stack. You don't need Twitter to tweet. You don't need X to X-press yourself. Isn't that cute? Here is an important debate between Robert P. George and Yoram Hazony about free speech in regard to campus antisemitism.
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Is it Rational to be Politically Ignorant?
I consider the question in today's Substack entry.
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Spiritual Mountebanks
Substack latest. Hold onto your wallets, muchachos! The world is full of hustlers and charlatans who prey upon spiritual seekers. One ought to be suspicious of anyone who claims enlightenment or special powers. The acid test is whether they demand money or sex for their services. If they do, run away while holding onto your…
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On ‘Reaching Out’ and ‘Educate’
Stack leader. The image of Jeff Dunham’s “Walter” warns that a language rant is up ahead! All language lemmings to their safe spaces.
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Euthyphro Dilemma, Divine Simplicity, and Modal Collapse
Top o' the Stack. Another deep dive into one of the gnarliest conundra in natural theology. The problem may be cast in the mold of an aporetic tetrad: 1) Classical theism is untenable if the ED cannot be defeated. 2) The ED can be defeated only if DDS is true. 3) DDS entails the collapse…
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The Euthyphro Problem, Islam, and Thomism.
Top o' the Stack. The problem is genuine but insoluble. Or so I conclude. What say you?
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The Danger of Appeasing the Intolerant
Substack latest.