My site’s year-end statistics are pretty much in. Here are the most popular posts for 2017: 1. Interviewed by Jordan B. Peterson. 2. The lecture that launched my Explaining Postmodernism book project: at the Atlas Society conference, University of Colorado. 3. Plato on censoring artists — a summary. 4. From Marxism to Postmodernism: an excerpt […]
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Frédéric Bastiat, “A Petition from the Candlemakers about Unfair Competition from the Sun” (1845). Marilyn Frye, “Oppression”, from The Politics of Reality. (1983). Mother Teresa, excerpt “On Prayer”, from No Greater Love (1987). Dualism and Naturalism quotations from Martin Luther, St. Paul, 1
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[My annual re-posting for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood
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This is a song to celebrate banks, Because they are full of money and you go into them and all you hear is clinks and clanks, Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills, Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills. Most bankers dwell in marble halls, Which
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A friend told me of young girl in trouble at school. She wouldn’t sit still to do her work, and whenever a teacher’s back was turned she would move about the classroom, sliding, hopping, and turning about. Even when forced to stay at her desk, she would stand rather than sit, tapping or shuffling her
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At Britain’s CHURCH and STATE site, my article “Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” has been republished. Thanks to Declan and Lola Heavey for selecting it. The article is followed by a series of video clips with me on postmodernism and real education. [Related: “How to Tame Religious Terrorists.” All of my articles at CHURCH and
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An interview with philosopher R. Kevin Hill, translator of the new edition of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power, published by Penguin in 2017.
R. Kevin Hill on philosophy and Nietzsche’s *The Will to Power* Read More »
I need to write this up, but here’s my working hypothesis: *Metaphysically*, philosophy was born with Thales and the Milesians. *Epistemologically*, it was born with Parmenides and the Eleatics. The Milesian school began around 600 BCE on the coast of Asia minor. The Eleatic school began around 500 BCE about 1100 kilometers west in the
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