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  • 2019 — Summer Course

    Here you will find the readings for my 2019 Summer II course. Check back frequently for updates. Back to Call Me Maggie homepage Have the assigned readings completed by the time you get to class. The first part of class… Continue reading

    2019 — Summer Course

  • Greek Natural Philosophy

    The first edition of the text on Presocratic philosophy which I co-authored with J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren is now available for adoption from Cognella. Greek Natural Philosophy presents the primary sources on the Presocratics in a straightforward… Continue reading

  • Primacy of Ethics over Metaphysics

    From a consideration of the primacy of ethics in Dante’s The Banquet by Etienne Gilson in Dante the Philosopher (1948): …the Crystaline heaven, or Primum Mobile, ordains by its motion the daily revolution of all the other heavens, a revolution that enables them to receive and transmit… Continue reading

    Primacy of Ethics over Metaphysics

  • You’re Not the Boss of Me! Why Libertarianism Is a Childish Sham | Alternet

    Wiping away the horizon of significance one tantrum at a time… Libertarians believe they are real rebels, because they’ve politicized the protest of children who scream through tears, “You’re not the boss of me.” The rejection of all rules and… Continue reading

  • 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

    Greater Means Yet Less Meaning

  • The Tragedy Of Rush Limbaugh’s Low Information Voter Theory – Forbes

    This is an extremely well thought out article on a fateful turn among conservatives in the early Reagan days, a turn away from trusting in the citizenry toward a kind of aristocratic cynicism. It actually elucidates how and when I… Continue reading

    The Tragedy Of Rush Limbaugh’s Low Information Voter Theory – Forbes

  • There’s More to Life Than Being Happy

      See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions   Meaning comes from the pursuit of more complex things than happiness   Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Happiness as we understand it today is little more than a drive to achieve temporary pleasures.… Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc. #1: 20120321

    The first issue of my VLog, Whaterver Etc., is now available for watching. Rough but I am hoping I will get the hang of this quickly. After you watch the video, you might want to check out these other posts:… Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. #1: 20120321