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Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Libraries And Schools Are Targets In GOP War Against Truth

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First Anchorage mayor Dave Bronson appointed a library director who didn't meet the minimum qualifications of the job description - a ma...
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Monday, September 06, 2021

A Little Hannah Arendt For Labor Day

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 "With the term vita active, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities:  labor, work, and action.  They are fundamental...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

To Impeach Now Or Not - Stepping Back To Understand The Debate A Little Differently

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I've written on the topic before, but this time I want to consider the motivation of people (Democrats) who differ because some want to ...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

A Serious Life And The Two Horses Of Genghis Kahn

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I met Michael Sidney Welch a number of years ago when I taught a class at Olé on blogging.  I insisted that we have it in a computer lab and...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Some Things I Want To Write About

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Our political situation is getting grim. Democracy works slowly.  I feel like I'm watching a car careening toward a cliff in very slow...
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Saturday, April 15, 2017

What Are Your Ethical Responsibilities To Your Pets?

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Next Tuesday evening, you can find out: The UAA Ethics Center and Philosophy Department is please to welcome philosopher,  Prof.  Gary  ...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Afternoon At Elliott Bay Book Company - Scary Old Sex, The Life You Can Save, And More

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While in Seattle this last time, I got the pleasure of browsing the shelves at the Elliot Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill.  Here are some b...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

“Without exception, totalitarian states invariably reject knowledge in the humanities, and states that reject such knowledge always become totalitarian.”

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That's from an editorial in the Japan Times as reported in ICEF Monitor , in reaction to the Japanese government's call for "...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Famous People Born 1915: It Was A Very Good Year 2

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I'm going to send you to the original post here   that has video and pictures and a list of 37 folks who were born in 1915 and made nam...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Easternization

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At the UAA Ethics Conference , Roger Ames pointed out that while we use the term globalization, that really isn't what's happening....
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Sunday, April 06, 2014

You Get What You Pay For

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I'm paralyzed - there are so many things to write about I don't know where to start. I'll  never catch up.   But the genius of b...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Just War and Christianity and Eastern Thought

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Matthew Strebe The basic premise of Matthew Strebe's paper, "Reformulating Warfare:  Just War Theory and Kantian Ethics,&q...

Changing Ed Philosophy in China and Comparison of Aristotle and Xunzu

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The first presentation raised lots of issues I've worked on - particularly the conflicts between the rule of law approach to ethics th...

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ethical"

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That's part of the title of the first paper.  Bauer and Kelly I'm at the UAA Undergraduate Ethics Conference in the Pub.  It ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Would Confucius Have Cut The Education Budget?

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As Alaska's legislature is busy cutting the state education budget and trying to use what public money is left to give to private school...
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