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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Chance, Design, Necessity
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Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , Part IX : Though the reasonings which you have urged, Cleanthes, may well excuse me, sa...
Friday, November 25, 2016
Dashed Off XXVI
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philosophy as a humanitarian tradition constancy and sagacity as virtues required for intellectual inquiry (Hume, Treatise 179) No prop...
Unbroken on the Wheel
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Today is the feast of Queen St. Catherine of Alexandria, Great Martyr, the patron saint of philosophers. (Barbara Longhi, St. Catherine o...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Whewell on Purity
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If morality is to be the supreme rule of human action, appetites and desires must be constrained by rational regard for moral principle. Bec...
The Principle of Popular Government
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There is no great share of probity necessary to support a monarchical or despotic government. The force of laws in one, and the prince's...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Foreign Emoluments
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It's a year for new things, I suppose. In their flailing about, Trump opponents have been grasping at any straw that they think might tu...
Monday, November 21, 2016
Xenophon's Anabasis, Books V, VI, & VII
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Book V Having arrived at Trapezus, Xenophon discovers that an entirely new set of problems awaits. The men don't want to keep marching...
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