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A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT Part II Guest Post by Merrill RingA 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...0 Comments 0 Shares 136 Views 0 Reviews
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A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT, Part I. Guest Post by Merrill RingA 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...0 Comments 0 Shares 140 Views 0 Reviews
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, STATE INTERVENTION, MARRIAGE, CUSTODY AND DIVORCEHot off the press and hoping that the book will not be "stillborn." You can help. Buy an eBook or paperback copy now at Amazon.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2ZWRDSW By the end of the 20th century there had been a veritable deluge of philosophical essays and books about children’s rights, adultery, family violence, the ethics of divorce, the limits of state intervention in the family,...0 Comments 0 Shares 124 Views 0 Reviews
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EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 1Part 1 Examples are not Definitions Plato sets the scene of Euthyphro outside the courthouse in Athens. Socrates is there to hear an indictment brought against him by a young man named Meletus. Upon his arrival, Socrates is surprised to run into a prophet[1] he knows named Euthyphro. Euthyphro tells Socrates that he is there to bring a prosecution against his own father...0 Comments 0 Shares 115 Views 0 Reviews
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EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 2From Understanding Plato: The Smart Student's Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the Republic Part 2 Quarreling Deities Socrates repeats his request: “What are the pious and the impious?” Euthyphro responds by telling Socrates that "what's loved by the gods is pious, and what's not loved by the gods is impious" (7a). Let's call this new definition D2. Socrates...0 Comments 0 Shares 130 Views 0 Reviews
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EUTHYPHRO: AN EXAMPLE OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 3From Understanding Plato: The Smart Student's Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the RepublicEUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHODPart 3Concurrence of the Gods Euthyphro now makes a third attempt (D3) to provide a definition. “I’d say that the pious is what all the gods love, and its opposite, what all the gods hate, is the impious” (9e). Socrates responds by asking a...0 Comments 0 Shares 123 Views 0 Reviews
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EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHOD, Part 4From Understanding Plato: The Smart Student's Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the Republic EUTHYPHRO: EXAMPLES OF SOCRATIC METHODPart 4 Piety is not a Skill After a bit of floundering about, Euthyphro finally hits on another, final definition of piety (D4). It is “some sort of knowledge of sacrificing and praying” (14c). The pious person is one who knows how to...0 Comments 0 Shares 121 Views 0 Reviews
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EVIL -- The Killing of Tyre NicholsSubscribe to our monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy 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...0 Comments 0 Shares 139 Views 0 Reviews
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GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEITEdmund HusserlMartin HeideggerGilbert Ryle GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEITIn a 1929 article printed in the journal Mind, Gilbert Ryle wrote a review of Martin Heidegger’s book Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). Although Ryle writes that Heidegger’s book is “a very difficult and important work, which marks a big advance in the application of the ‘Phenomenological...0 Comments 0 Shares 109 Views 0 Reviews
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IS IT ALWAYS WRONG TO TELL A LIE?Immanuel Kant vs John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Constant on the Morality of Telling a Lie Immanuel KantIn Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) Immanuel Kant argues that not only is it morally wrong to tell a lie but there are no circumstances in which a lie is justifiable, including situations in which telling a lie would be to your own benefit or to the benefit of others. The duty...0 Comments 0 Shares 115 Views 0 Reviews
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JOHN RAWLS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF A JUST WARPart 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...0 Comments 0 Shares 117 Views 0 Reviews
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LEVIATHAN: THOMAS HOBBES ON THE ORIGIN OF CIVIL SOCIETYTHOMAS HOBBES 1588 - 1679LEVIATHAN: THOMAS HOBBES ON THE ORIGIN OF CIVIL SOCIETY from Understanding Thomas Hobbes: The Smart Student's Guide to LeviathanWhenever you see or hear the word 'origin' you must be careful not to confuse it with the word 'meaning'. A theory about the origin of civil society is not the same as a theory about the meaning of 'civil society'. Origin...0 Comments 0 Shares 136 Views 0 Reviews
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