It’s so strange how a rich nation like America can also be a nation that the Same nation that the info pic below describes… Here are some good reads about money, power, respect, and America. Is America more exceptional today than in 1776? by Bernstein and Isenberg SALON The 1 percent’s first fight -by Bernstein […]
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The Examined Life is by far my favorite philosophy film. Filmmaker, Astra Taylor, takes philosophers’ walks with some of the most renowned figures in philosophy. During the walks they speak on topics such as meaning, our obligation to the poor, disabilities, meaning of philosophy, and the state’s role in the life of the individual. Some
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Hypatia has just released a free online collection of essays that focuses on gender and race issues in the field of philosophy. The Purpose of the collection is to … bring together essays published by Hypatia over a twenty year timespan that address the question of women’s place in the profession of philosophy. It includes
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KungfuHobbit prefers to call critical thinking; ‘How to think, not what to think’. That’s just fine with me. And if critical thinking is that, than I guess I am #TeamCritical. It would be great if our culture were not closed minded and instead less obsessed with collecting facts and open to learning how to think
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It seems that all religions have something to say about sex. The Torah tells with whom and when not to have sex. Other religions have integrated their beliefs into law and therefore one can be killed for their sexual encounters. Some suggest that religions attempt to prohibit sexual practices has to do with a focus
Happy Friday. This week there has been some interesting ideas floating around the net from religion, same sex marriage, women and history. Im happy to share some things I believe you will find interesting. 1. Does Anayltical Thinking Erode Religious Belief (Religious DisPatches) 2. The Meaning of Same Sex Marriage (NY Times) 3. Guilty but
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If we honestly take a look at the “History of White People” as Historian Neil Painter calls it, we will witness that with their discovery of the world has also come domination and colonialism of the world. With their power have come white privilege. With their civilized perceptions have come superiority propaganda. With their large
My Brother: Tell your brethren who are part of your ministerial coalition to “live their faith and not legislate their faith” for the Constitution is designed to protect the rights of all. We must learn to be more than a one-issue community and seek the beloved community where we may not all agree, but
I know there is something about our human species that makes us believe that we are special and superior. In his GroundWork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant believed that the thing that points to our personhood is our ability to reason. With that rationality, he suggest that ethics has more to do with
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This Article by David Wong at cracked.com is simply Brilliant. It’s a humorous yet solid argument of how men are trained to hate women. He provides five reasons how that happens: 1) men are taught they are owed a beautiful woman, 2) men are trained at birth to see women as decorations, 3) men are
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