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A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s moral identity
[we] test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity — Rothschild & Keefer, Motivation and Emotion free speechMoral psychologyPsychologyregressive left
Lost Tribes of Israel, Blood and History
I’ve been fascinated by Tudor Parfitt’s work for some thirty years. If ever there were someone whose life as an academic had any genuine appeal to me, it would be his. In his pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake he has had a profound effect on the understanding of that paradigm puzzle case of social…
Walker Percy Wednesday 125
(6) Consider the following short descriptions of different kinds of consciousness of self. Which of the selves, if any, do you identify with? (a) The cosmological self. The self is either unconscious of itself or only conscious of itself insofar as it is identified with a cosmological myth or classificatory system, e.g., totemism. Ask a…
Christina Hoff Sommers on warped “fainting-couch” feminism
Fainting-couchers view women as psychically fragile and prone to trauma. They demand trigger warnings, safe spaces, and micro-aggression monitoring. The institutionalized pseudo-inquiry of “professionalized” whining, perpetual victimhood and self-aggrandizement railing against “the patriarchy”, is no more than yet another ill-founded conspiracy theory peddled by the intellectually lazy virtue-signaling prof with no skin in the game. Here is an Interview with based…
Art history & the brain
Christie Davies reviews John Onions’ European Art: A Neuroarthistory. (H/T Stephen Hicks). art historyjohn oniansNeurophilosophyneuroscience
Two Kinds of Mind: Dennett and Scruton
Nicely balanced review of Dennett and Scruton’s latest books. We need both approaches. See article in Standpoint. ADAM ZEMAN Roger ScrutonconsciousnessDaniel Dennettevolutionary biologyEvolutionary PsychologyHuman natureMaterialismneural correlatesNeurophilosophyneurosciencePhilosophy of mindreductionism
The Perils of Rationalism in American Urban Policy
Recently published paper by David Imbroscio. Freely available here and here. city planningDavid ImbrosciJane JacobsMichael Oakeshottrationalism
Happy Birthday Fats
What Fats Domino Means To New Orleans boogie boogieFats Dominonew orleanspianorock ‘n roll
Dead Sea Tapes
Chuffed to come across this recently broadcast (previously blocked) programme. Among the featured gems are The Dead Sea Tapes, Peter’s views on religion, his taste in reading and much more besides. I have a chum who used to live around the corner from Perrin’s Walk in Ellerdale Road, near the convent (or was it a girls school) mentioned in…
