Debate with Dinesh D'Souza:
On The Colbert Report:
An interview:
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
All extremist doctrines invoke the principle (found, sadly, in the Gospels) that "he who is not with me is against me."
Tzvetan Todorov
Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good.
Robert G. Ingersoll
[ a fully caused & embodied blog ] [ Good Sense Without God ]
It is in the prosecution of some single object, and in striving to reach its accomplishment by the combined application of his moral and physical energies, that the true happiness of man, in his full vigour and development, consists. Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with repose; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm our eyes. If we consider the position of man in the universe,—if we remember the constant tendency of his energies towards some definite activity, and recognize the influence of surrounding nature, which is ever provoking him to exertion, we shall be ready to acknowledge that repose and possession do not indeed exist but in imagination. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Sphere and Duties of Government (The Limits of State Action) (1854 ed.)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Memorial Monday Reading
Start with Winter Patriot's post, but follow the links within:
Robert Perry at Consortiumnews:
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/05/yea-though-i-walk-through-valley-of.htmlChris Floyd on Bush in the Israeli Knesset:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1513/135/On Bush's historical connection to Hitler and the Nazis:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/228/135/Updated:
http://clamormagazine.org/issues/14/feature3.php
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUC20051102&articleId=1176
Robert Perry at Consortiumnews:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051808.html
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Peter Singer and Dinesh D'Souza Debate
Peter Singer was one of the major philosophers who's work initiated my interest into philosophy, ethics, politics, etc. His book Practical Ethics is one of my favorites. I highly recommend it.
philosophy bites: Peter Singer on Using Animals
Dinesh is among my least favorite people in the world. What a maroon! His arguments are both illogical and ill informed.
philosophy bites: Peter Singer on Using Animals
Dinesh is among my least favorite people in the world. What a maroon! His arguments are both illogical and ill informed.
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