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hither and yon
Originally posted on betacity: Cars are inviolably and inextricably linked to freedom; and, with no less conviction, to solvency. Of course they are: you can hop in anytime and go anywhere you want when you have a car. You can… Continue reading
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Casino Capitalism: Killer Control
We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Idealism has been replaced by a repressive punishing… Continue reading
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Sustaining life is not the good life
Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: I write this post after spending time this morning contemplating the nature of things. This post is not a ‘product’ of that contemplation. * In Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor has some remarkable things… Continue reading
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Jasmine Mans
7 “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes,… Continue reading
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Blinding Trust and the Elected Aristocracy
What can it mean for doing business in Washington, DC, that the “blind trusts” of elected officials favor the corporations that receive the most benefits from doing business with and receiving aid from the largest public purse in the world?… Continue reading
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Greater Means Yet Less Meaning
Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics, examines eudaimonia (happiness or flourishing) as the end or purpose of human life. He does this at first through a series of negatives: Happiness is not… Pursuit of Pleasure because even animals can experience pleasure… Continue reading
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Pursuing Professorship, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: A doctoral student writes: The only reason why there’s a glut of PhD graduates without jobs is that the availability of full-time tenure-track professorships has declined. Why is that? It’s not because of demand. There’s… Continue reading
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