For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Cesare Bonesana, “Torture” (1764). Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928). Osama bin Laden, “Letter to the Americans” (2002). Michael Levin, “On Torture” (1982). Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Greek State” (1871). Charles Ogletree, “The Case for Affirmative Action” (2015). Thomas […]
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What are Fascism and Nazism, historically and philosophically? What are their connections to Benito Mussolini, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler? And do those words describe today’s Alt-Right and Antifa members? Vin Armani’s one-hour interview with me appears at 60:10:35 of this two-hour show: Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis. Mussolini and Gentile’s The Doctrine
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This is my grandfather’s axe. My father replaced the head. I replaced the handle. My daughter added some tape to the handle. Is it still my grandfather’s axe? Ship of Theseus problems: “The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even
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Okay, so Soros is spending millions of his billions on left-leaning causes. And the Kochs are spending millions of theirs on right-leaning causes. Can we please accept: 1. The principle that people can spend their money on whatever they want, 2. That people can think for themselves, even if rich guys try to influence them,
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One morning a mother called into her son’s bedroom: “Wake up, it’s time to go to school!” The son grumbled, “I don’t want to go.” “Tell me two reasons why you don’t want to,” the mother said. “The kids hate me,” the son said, “and the teachers hate me too!” “Oh come on,” the mother
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“Deconstruction,” Stanley Fish confesses happily, “relieves me of the obligation to be right … and demands only that I be interesting.” For the implications of Fish’s quotation for postmodernism, see p. 11 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated page.
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The advance tickets are sold out for Friday’s talk at the University of British Columbia, but here’s a link to the event site. I’ll be speaking on themes out of my Explaining Postmodernism with special application to today’s campus wars.
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In his “Letter to the Americans,” bin Laden issued a call for morality: “We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gamblings, and trading with interest.” Americans’ failure to cleanse themselves of these sins is one of the justifications bin Laden
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