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Lessons in Magick: When Giants Fall
Death does not occur one, singular time in our lives.
Sure. There is a death that is a finale, there is no coming back from.
None of us can escape that physical, biological ending.
Well, I mean, you know what I mean.
Reincarnation beliefs and such aside.
There are multiple tiny deaths we experience throughout life.
And, sadly, no, I am not referring to la petite mort.
Though I am a loud supporter that the more of THOSE you experience, the better your overall...
TYRANNIES OF THE MAJORITY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Subscribe to our monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing PhilosophyTYRANNIES OF THE
MAJORITY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: Segregation, Voter Suppression, and Gerrymandering
1. Justifiable limits to majority
power
In his famous
book On Liberty, John Stuart Mill writes that ancient concerns about tyranny
were mostly confined to the behavior of monarchs and oligarchs who had the will
and the political...
EVIL -- The Killing of Tyre Nichols
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EVILI assume that everyone reading this blog post knows about
the January 5, 2023 brutal beating and subsequent death of 19-year-old Tyre Nichols by six members of
the Memphis Tennessee police department.[1]
In a recent television interview[2], Congressman Jim Jordan
called the police beating of Tyre Nichols “an act...
THOMAS HOBBES, CHATgpt AND PLAGIARISM
Subscribe to my monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy THOMAS HOBBES, CHATgpt, and PLAGIARISMI was hoping that the headline would attract your
attention. What does Thomas Hobbes have
to do with AI? His Leviathan was
published in 1651, long before anyone could imagine that something artificial
could be intelligent.[1]
1. CHATgpt
Before I answer this question,...
WOKE IDEAS, DRAG QUEENS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM
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WOKE IDEAS, DRAG QUEENS AND
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
A man is convicted in a
court of law for the crime of murder. He is sentenced to life in
prison. Another man in ancient times named Socrates is convicted of
corrupting the youth of Athens by teaching them to think critically, and for
not believing in the official gods of...
SHOULD DONALD TRUMP BE DISQUALIFIED FROM EVER RUNNING AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT?
Free copies of Laurence Houlgate's Understanding Philosophy available at www.houlgatebooks.comUnderstanding Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionDonald Trump Golfing at Bedminster in 2022Here is a question that should be asked by every philosophy professor in their classrooms this term: Should Donald J. Trump be permanently disqualified from holding any office, civil or military, including the office of President?I ask this question because of a growing debate...
A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT, Part I. Guest Post by Merrill Ring
A Philosopher Reads the Second AmendmentMerrill Ring Part I Reply to ScaliaThe Second Amendment consists
of two clauses. Interpretations of the
amendment hinge upon how the relationship between those clauses is regarded.
One type of interpretation,
of which Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in District of Columbia v Heller is the paradigm, treats the first
clause – “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free
State,” – as not much more important than the...
A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT Part II Guest Post by Merrill Ring
A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT Merrill Ring Part II The Second Amendment and the Human Appendix
So, what does the
Second Amendment, the first clause of it, have to say about militias? Worries about whether its talk of militias is
relevant to the understanding of the whole has led to a failure to consider
carefully what is actually said about militias there. The amendment says that a militia “being
necessary to the security of a free state”. ...
SOCRATES, LEONTIUS AND THE ANTI-VAXXERS
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SOCRATES, LEONTIUS AND THE ANTI-VAXXERSIn Plato’s Republic, Socrates tells his interlocutor Glaucon
a story about Leontius, the son of Aglaeon:
“[Leontius] was going up from the Piraeus along the
outside of the North wall when he saw some corpses with the public executioner
nearby. He had an appetitive desire to look at them,...
WHAT IS FREE WILL? JOHN SEARLE vs THOMAS HOBBES
What is Free Will? John Searle v Thomas HobbesSeveral years ago former University of California
philosophy professor John Searle posted a video on YouTube about the difficulty
of finding a solution to the problem of free will. In the video, staged as an
interview of Searle by an interlocutor, he begins with a description of the centuries
old stand-off between philosophers who say we have free will and those who deny
this. John Searle1. Philosophers who are pro-free will are...
JOHN RAWLS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF A JUST WAR
Part I
Preface
In 1995, one year before his
death, the renowned American philosopher John Rawls wrote an article titled “50
Years After Hiroshima." (Dissent Magazine). Rawls invited his readers to
reflect on the question, “Was the bombing of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and
Nagasaki really a great wrong, as many thought then, or is it perhaps justified
after all?” John Rawls (1921-2002)In August 1945, the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima immediately killed 80,000 Japanese...
NORMAN MALCOLM ON MIND AND THE HUMAN FORM
Fifty-six
years ago I wrote a brief article for MIND, a philosophy journal edited by
Gilbert Ryle at Oxford University. The
article is a critical response to Norman Malcolm’s theory that “no amount of
intelligible sounds coming from an oak tree or a kitchen table could create any
probability that it has sensations or thoughts.”
Norman Malcolm (1911-1990)Here is a
summary of what I wrote.
Malcolm’s
supporting example is a talking tree.
The tree “says” that “there is a vixen in...
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