04 Jan 2024
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. The subordination of morals to politics, the reign of terror and the technique of propaganda and psychological aggression can be used by...
10 Sep 2020
Sometimes I think all of history is a pissing match, but one cannot say that in polite society. No time and no space, just a pissing match. The kind that we can recognize from having observed a pack of stray dogs. Or, simply, dogs: city animals that are allowed to...
31 Mar 2020
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07 Aug 2019
First a quote from a more recent scholar1: “Philosophy has long suffered, as hard sciences have not, from a wavering consensus on questions of professional competence. Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the...
30 Mar 2019
Ethical search - how can it not arrive at god? Is it possible for science not to have an endgame? For Harris it need not to; the Church of old is over, confessions (e.g.) do not have the same function. Now people rather seek god by “searching.” And so many...