A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (18)
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (16)
I returned to the religion of my childhood and remained there for a long time. I imagined that my father heard me and I could tell him that the fault had been not mine but the doctor’s. The lie was of no importance because now he understood everything, and so did I. And for quite…
Aurality, Epistemology and Embodiment in the Gospel of John
What an imaginative invocation of recent embodiment literature! This is an eminently plausible move at least with regards to the doctrine of the λόγος. Deborah Forgerfourth gospellogosphilo of alexandriaphilosophical theology
Legal Philosophy as Philosophy
Yet another deliciously entertaining paper from Susan freely accessible here. Some of you may think that this shows that the civil-law custom of court-appointed experts has a distinct advantage over the common-law practice. And in some ways, no doubt, it does. But I’m not convinced it is better overall, and not just because the U.S.…
The Moviegoer: quotes (18)
Sometimes when she mentions God, it strikes me that my mother uses him as but one of the devices that come to hand in an outrageous man’s world, to be put to work like all the rest in the one enterprise she has any use for: the canny management of the shocks of life. It…
The Open Society and Its Complexities
I have been informed that Jerry Gaus has a new book to be posthumously published by OUP next year. Here he is discussing some of the book’s ideas. classical liberalismcomplexityGerald Gausopen systems
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (17)
“Clean, hard-working, dependable, quiet type.” Good God! What kind of monster is this that they want. I am afraid that I could never work for a concern with a worldview like that.” 30% discount code available here a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophy and literature
Jerry Gaus
Saddened to learn of Jerry’s passing. He was such an easy going and a thoroughly decent chap and a really good philosopher to boot. Jerry was well-known to Cosmos + Taxis via the symposium on his The Tyranny of the Ideal and his participation in the symposium on Pete Boettke’s F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political…
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (15)
With great, ominously calm severity, he replied: “I explained to you the state of our knowledge at that instant. But who can say what may happen by tomorrow, or in half an hour’s time? By keeping your father alive, I have left the door open to all possibilities.” Then he put on his glasses, and…
The Moviegoer: quotes (17)
Yet loves revives as we spin homewards along the coast through the early evening. Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad, Sharon’s beauty and my aunt’s bravery, and victory breaks your heart. But life goes on and on we go, spinning along the coast in a violet…
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