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Ethics as practical tradition
Are there any instances outside of religion where we are justified in using something other than empirical data and logical deductions to acquire knowledge about the world? One of the most incisive critiques of my post … -
Final evaluation of The God Delusion
At heart, I disagree with Richard Dawkins less about God's existence than about what counts as evidence for or against it. Dawkins is a strict positivist: he insists that only hard physical evidence and its logical conse… -
Lollapalooza, part II (Gogol Bordello, Bloc Party)
Continued from yesterday... 1. Our group split into two halves before Gogol Bordello's set. One half wanted to sit on a blanket and catch Radiohead from a comfortable distance. The other half wanted to press up as close… -
Initial impressions of The God Delusion
The preface to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion ends with this paragraph: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down. What presumptuous optimism! Of course, dy… -
Five realizations that have changed my life in the past ten years
1. I have realized that the aesthetic is itself a source of truth, and not merely a vehicle for it.2. I have realized that my own, personal response to experiences and ideas has intrinsic value, and I should not try to o… -
I been thinkin some of suicide...
...but there's bars out here for miles... -Ryan Adams, "Dear Chicago" "There is but one serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." Thus Albert Camus begins his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus asks: given the…
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