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The Moviegoer: quotes (2)
What do you seek — God? you ask with a smile. I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for themselves and to give such an answer would amount to setting myself a goal which everyone else has reached — and therefore raising a question in which no one has the…
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (1)
Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul. 30% discount code available here a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophy and literature
Herzl’s Bicycle
Marking Theodor Herzl’s birth date. The top photo is of a mini sculpture near the Budapest synagogue and is based on the second photo on display in the Vienna Jewish Museum. The third photo is of the actual bicycle, also on display in the Vienna Jewish Museum. Read Herzl’s The Jewish State here; an audio book…
Democratic Peace Theory, Montesquieu, and Public Choice
Chapter 9, Sarah M. Burns and Chad Van Schoelandt: Chad Van Schoelandtclassical liberalismdemocracyImmanuel Kantmontesquieusarah burns
The Chappist Guide to May Day
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I, John Kennedy Toole
Well, this one came from left field. A novelized true story? One has to wonder what more can be said in addition to Cory MacLauchlin’s superb biography but I will withhold judgment until I’ve read it. Ironically, published by Simon and Shyster (Robert Gottlieb), the very publisher that made such heavy weather of Ken’s book. . .…
Collective intelligence and social ontology: Bridging the divide between human and animal collective cognition through stigmergy and Peircean semiotics
Wow! Quite a mouthful for a title. This paper covers a lot of ground that is of interest to me and cites several people with whom I’ve worked. Instead, what I am going to suggest in the next pages is that collective intelligence phenomena can be explained, in many cases, by means of structures of emergent…
The Moviegoer: quotes (1)
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. The movies are onto the search, but they screw it up. The…
Day Shift God, Night Shift God
A fascinating snappy intuition-testing piece from the genuinely versatile Marc Champagne, freely available here. I do not want to argue against theism directly. I do want to argue, though, that the ‘mono’ portion of monotheism rests on nothing more than an aesthetic preference. Marc Champagnemetaphysicsphilosophy of religionReligion
