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Gewissensbisse: Dawkins the Atomistic Monist: Selfish Gene, Chap 3
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Wednesday, August 05, 2009. Dawkins the Atomistic Monist: Selfish Gene, Chap 3. In the third chapter, called "Immortal Coils," we are inserted into a debate about the "unit of selection" in natural selection, which Dawkins is kind enough to spare us the details. Mainly, it seems, we don't need to think about other. So you must forgive me if I seem to labour it! 26) Actually, he doesn't really labor. But let's think about his assump...
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Gewissensbisse: October 2007
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Monday, October 29, 2007. The Craft of Thought, Reviewed. I just finished Mary Carruthers' book The Craft of Thought. The notion of a "machine" in ancient and medieval culture is what Isidore of Seville identified as a hoist that architects or masons ( masiones. Would use to lift up the "fabric" of a building, setting this superstructure on a foundation. Extending this metaphor (using 1 Corinthians 8), monastic culture thought ...
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Gewissensbisse: February 2009
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Tuesday, February 10, 2009. Head in the air or nose to the ground: Mysterious Skin Reconsidered. For it refuses to affirm life here. For Brian, it was a matter of spiritualizing the experience (not so different from many Christians who emphasizes dying and going to heaven, although this is not the orthodox Christian position), and in this spiritualization becomes something of an a-sexual person who is visibly uncomfortable with him...
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Gewissensbisse: October 2008
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Saturday, October 04, 2008. Plato exiled poets in the Republic. The problem, Socrates says in Book III and again in Book X, is that they are imitators, and what they imitate is often the worst in humans. Moreover, since poetry does not truck in knowledge, the poets do not know. What they are doing (so the argument goes in the Ion. The truth is not the point of poetry. . Of our philosophizing is. A teen murder in Benny's,. What's ha...
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Gewissensbisse: Arguments - In and Out of Science
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Thursday, March 12, 2009. Arguments - In and Out of Science. I've just started what I hope will be a really good refresher for me on current science by the New York Times. Science correspondent, Natalie Angier ( The Canon. So far it's pretty interesting, and I'm really excited to learn a bit about new experiments going on, and her writing style, while a bit verbose, is in general really good. . Opinion invalid." . Of course, after ...
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Gewissensbisse: January 2009
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Saturday, January 24, 2009. Mythos and Logos: A productive tension. It's a platitude in the history of philosophy that Thales of Miletus was the first "philosopher," and that is defined as someone explains the world in terms of logos. 160;(or "reason") instead of mythos. Or "myth"). Now, Jean-Pierre Vernant is right that this translation of "reason" as opposed. Reign over the mythos. How do we know people? First, we 'get to know' s...
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Gewissensbisse: April 2006
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Friday, April 14, 2006. Epictetus said, "it is you who know yourself, how much you are worth to yourself, and at what price you sell yourself; for men sell themselves at various prices" (Discourses, 1.2). Economy, an economy at a lower frequency. There are other economies. There is the Epicurean economy, where one takes pleasure in everything, because one recognizes the role of fate, and thus one is. Is there a democratic economy?
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Gewissensbisse: December 2007
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Wednesday, December 05, 2007. Are belief and faith the same? I've had the dubious pleasure of reading, for a paper I'm working on, Sam Harris' The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. And all we need to do is match up our statements with the world. What we can verify through our senses (this includes scientific observation) is what is true. Hence, Harris argues, "religious faith is simply unjustified. Of her in...
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Gewissensbisse: September 2008
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Tuesday, September 30, 2008. The Truth of an Illusion. Be useful. Maher thought no, for ethical reasons (because of all the bad things that have been justified using religion), but Larry Charles said no, for theoretical. Reasons: the stories are not true, so one should not. Believe them. . Of course this brings up a question for me: what is Larry Charles' view of truth? There is only one small problem with the correspondence theory...
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Gewissensbisse: August 2008
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us." (Nietzsche). Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Look and See the resemblances - Reading Wittgenstein. 167;§31-80. These sections of the Philosophical Investigations. 160;introduce two important conceptions of Wittgenstein's view of the entire philosophical enterprise. The first is his notion that if you want to understand something you must look and see. 167;66). The second is that of "family resemblances" (§67). . Name" But of course how could it be?