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Hermeticism and the Anthropic Principle of Evolution « Footnotes 2 Plato
In The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Karl Popper famously (or infamously, as far as Hegelians are concerned) attacked Hegel for his bewitching apriorism and supposed distain for empirical science, going so far as to blame his Platonically inspired “mystery… Continue reading
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Green House | vitfoto
Green House | vitfoto Continue reading
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Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier
Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier. Continue reading
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Romney, Ryan, and The Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?
Budgets are moral documents. National, state, and local budgets are commitments about where and how to carry out the work of America’s soul, or to abandon it. A national budget that abandons the Public and the freedoms it gives us… Continue reading
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The Ridiculous Rise of Ayn Rand – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Continuing the non-discussion about Ayn Rand and her unfortunate influence: Right-wing think tanks can have Rand (even if she had little use for them). In the academy, she is a nonperson. Her theories are works of fiction. Her works of… Continue reading
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Carl Elliott – How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners
How to be an academic failure? Let me count the ways. You can become a disgruntled graduate student. You can become a burned-out administrator, perhaps an associate dean. You can become an aging, solitary hermit, isolated in your own department,… Continue reading
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millipede love is mysterious and wild « sittinginthewoods
A new blog from a good brother & cherished cousin, Will Hudson. Will is one of my favorite poets and quick becoming one of my favorite environmentalists. There is an intrinsic value in the boundless wilderness and the complex and… Continue reading
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Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools – KansasCity.com
One wonders when it will ever end. “I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation,” Givens said. “We’re simply saying to the ACT… Continue reading
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Richard II « Keelan Foley
Personally I feel that Shakespeare’s plays are politically useful and an effective means of distributing “common thinking” as in class and society structures through popular mediums. Also Shakespeare was closely tied with the current monarchy of the time. He implanted… Continue reading
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Book Review: John Cage biography explores Zen Buddhist influence » TCPalm.com
In a new biography of this pioneering artist, art critic Kay Larson links Cage’s daring presentation of “the sound of no sound” to his growing interest in Eastern religion, particularly Zen Buddhism, at a time of personal crisis in the… Continue reading
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A Public Soul in Stasis: Ayn Rand vs. the Pope – Salon.com
The Greek word for “civil war” is stasis. While that might seem strange to them modern ear, it actually makes sense. Stasis is achieved when two or more great forces bring a thing/process to a halt. Much of our public… Continue reading
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Are the Boomers Screwing the Millennials? | Rightly Understood | Big Think
Nice piece very much in line with many things I have been saying over the last two years. It is bleak, certainly bleaker than the way generational expert Neil Howe sees things turning out. Thanks to my friend Heather Davis… Continue reading
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Opposing Views on What the American Public Provides
The notion of fair taxation is based on three ideals: First, taxes are a way to reimburse the community for what it has provided beforehand. This is about reciprocity. Second, taxes are a way to maintain freedom in America, by… Continue reading
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