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- Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:38 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35942
Re: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
Kind of - the problem is that ethical critiques mostly take the form of a reductio ad absurdum, in which you posit a worst case scenario where this or that precept, slavishly followed, leads to something absurd or harmful. Now this doesn't have to be a critique of a "dry" system that contradicts our...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:09 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35942
Re: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
Are there any ethicists who criticize moral / ethical ideas from any other angle than "program the robot to make peanut butter"? You know the exercise - you get one person to write instructions for making a peanut butter sandwich, and someone else has to follow them literally. Open the jar of peanut...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:24 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35942
Re: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
The author seems to share my want to have our Rawlsian cake with virtuous icing and eat it. That's the thing I like about Massimo, his evenhandedness and recognition that every school of thought and every thinker has both merits and warts. He does take sides but never in a doctrinaire or chauvinist...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35942
Re: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
Ooh, double post!
* runs for the bottle *
Thanks Miles, I needed that.
* runs for the bottle *
Thanks Miles, I needed that.
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35942
Rumble in the Ethical Jungle: Rawls vs. Aristotle
part the first http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.ca/2 ... ng-of.html
part the second http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.ca/2 ... of_18.html
I thought this would be right up Miles' alley.
part the second http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.ca/2 ... of_18.html
I thought this would be right up Miles' alley.
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:00 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Magritte
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17667
Re: Magritte
entartete kunst!
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:16 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Magritte
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17667
Re: Magritte
Could you please post that again?
[eyes bottle thirstily]
[eyes bottle thirstily]
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:23 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Magritte
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17667
Re: Magritte
It's a drinking game. Miles double or triple posts - take a drink.
(very slow drinking game unfortunately - comparable to sobriety)
(very slow drinking game unfortunately - comparable to sobriety)
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:07 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: gun control and first daughters
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8244
Re: gun control and first daughters
The hell of it is, any attempt to impose slight and mild restrictions inflames the people who think George Soros wants to send his Illuminati UN One World Gay Negro Stormtroopers to Confiscate All Guns Forever. I believe you're right about the gun-manhood connection. For some people it's the same th...
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: Climate Change
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26421
Re: Climate Change
A fairly alarming piece by Chris Hedges. I think the world could use some more alarm over this.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the ... _20130113/
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the ... _20130113/