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Category Archives: Philosophy
Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism
In my experience, Jewish philosophy and Jewish theology play no role in the lives of 99.9% of Jews (equivalent to the role of jurisprudence in the lives of Americans). It is rare that I recall real Jews (as opposed to … Continue reading
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What Is Post-Modernism?
Comments at Andrew Gelman: * “Postmodernism” in the humanities and humanistic social sciences arose out of the failure of the mid-century modernist idea that you could treat human beings and their behavior like classical-physics particles–categorizing them, modeling them, and predicting … Continue reading
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That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession
Here are some excerpts from this 1988 book: “Historical objectivity” is not a single idea, but rather a sprawling collection of assumptions, attitudes, aspirations, and antipathies. At best it is what the philosopher W. B. Gallie has called an “essentially … Continue reading
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Cancel Culture From Thomas More To Godward Podcast (2-17-21)
https://fredrikdeboer.com/2021/02/15/scott-alexander-is-not-in-the-gizmodo-media-slack/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss Persecution and the Art of Writing , https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JY89ECY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 Cancel Culture From Thomas More To Godward Podcast, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=137087 Luke’s journey to Judaism: https://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l1.html
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The Consolation of Philosophy (2-17-21)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Consolation_of_Philosophy https://twitter.com/Godward16/status/1362130986474102795 The philosopher Isaiah Berlin on the source of Stoicism's popularity: pic.twitter.com/eMTKAwgocp — Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 15, 2021
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Stoicism Predicts Depression (2-17-21)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Consolation_of_Philosophy https://twitter.com/Godward16/status/1362130986474102795 The philosopher Isaiah Berlin on the source of Stoicism's popularity: pic.twitter.com/eMTKAwgocp — Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 15, 2021 "in contrast to our hypothesis, stoic ideology significantly negatively predicted wellbeing, as well as engagement in life..endorsement of stoic ideology … Continue reading
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The Consolation of Philosophy (2-17-21)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Consolation_of_Philosophy https://twitter.com/Godward16/status/1362130986474102795 The philosopher Isaiah Berlin on the source of Stoicism's popularity: pic.twitter.com/eMTKAwgocp — Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 15, 2021
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Natural Rights
I emailed a philosopher: What do you make of the idea that people are born with natural rights? Some people believe that we are born with rights bestowed on us by God but “rights” receive virtually no attention in classical … Continue reading
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The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge and Presuppositions
Here are some highlights from this 2013 book: * The logical positivists had no objections to even the most extreme forms of sociological reductionism, if it was applied to morals. For them, the fact – value distinction was a fire-wall … Continue reading
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Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant By Ben Novak
Here are some excerpts from this 2014 book: * The question that initiated this study was a simple question that mystified Adolf Hitler’s contemporaries and has subsequently baffled historians and biographers: Why was Hitler successful in his rise to power? … Continue reading
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