Politics of the Soul. A combination of personal commentary and portal to sites related to political philosophy. No loyalty here to contemporary political brand names such as conservative or liberal. I might even prefer "government of the soul", which, in both its connotations, is what will ultimately save us.
Red Rooms, a 2023 Quebecois movie
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Highly disturbing, so I do not recommend it to most of you. It concerns a
murder trial, and while violence is never shown on screen it is harrowing
to w...
Healthcare Ethics, Gisela Reyes
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This course on healthcare ethics came to be as an amalgamation of my
experiences both as a graduate teaching assistant at Northwestern
University and as ...
Zohran Mamdani Is Not Muslim Enough
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Why the mayoral candidate should lean into his religion more
The post Zohran Mamdani Is Not Muslim Enough first appeared on ARC:
Religion, Politics, Et Ce...
A Hell of Mercy
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The October Material Mysticism is Salvation by Dread Alone, a descent into
the maw of despair, with a teaser at Substack entitled The Contemplative
Consu...
The first ASPIRE SoTL Circle
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Last Friday, we had the first in what (I hope!) will be a long-standing
series of events in the Politics SoTL space: the ASPIRE SoTL Circle. In
this post I...
Lloyd Gerson on Plato's Moral Realism
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Dr. Lloyd Gerson is a Canadian. He teaches at the University of Toronto. In this
YouTube video he defends Plato's moral realism and ground of truth a...
Ancient Philosophy Society Graduate Student Panel
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Join the Ancient Philosophy Society for a virtual panel discussion
featuring current and recently graduated doctoral students working in
ancient philosophy...
New blogging venture
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I have decided to start a new solo blog entitled That Blog You Like Is
Going to Come Back in Style. My first post is an attempt to set an
appropriate tone....
Mirror of Justice, R.I.P. (2004-25)
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As I mentioned a few days ago, the Typepad platform (which has long hosted
the Mirror of Justice blog) is shutting down. I am working on "exporting"
-- and...
Colossians in Cambridge (Torrey Cambridge 2024)
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This July, professors Paul Spears and Fred Sanders are taking a group of
Torrey students to Cambridge, England to read Colossians with all our might
for ...
African Extractive Industries: PRC Neocolonialism
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That the slow development of the African continent can be traced to Western
colonialism is an archetype of this field of study: Mainly interested in
extr...
Job-market reporting thread (2023-24 season)
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(UPDATE - Sept 6th, 2013, 1:37pm: permalink to this thread on the blog's
right sidebar has been corrected!) I know it's still very early in the job
market ...
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
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How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses
Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts.
Here’s your Situation Update for December 8, 2020.
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Welcome to your Situation Update, a once-regular feature from Insurgentsia
that covers irregular war and runs extremely sporadically. The weather
forecast ...
belief
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Scholars of religion generally agree that belief is a Western, Christian,
and even Protestant construction that obscures more than illuminates the
lives of...
Situs Taruhan Slot Online Terpercaya
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Bettor tak bisa bergantung sepenuhnya pada kemenangan di situs taruhan slot
online terpercaya. Nominal kemenangan tak selalu besar, apalagi untuk
bettor ...
Donor Outreach Manager
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The Franklin News Foundation supports and funds public-interest journalism
at the state and local levels. Franklin is dedicated to the principles of
tran...
A Message from Carnegie Council
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To all members of the Global Ethics Network:
It is with deep affection for this extraordinary community that Carnegie
Council is today announcing the clo...
The Untold Story of St. Mary of Egypt
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As I write this, it is the fifth Sunday of Great Lent in the Orthodox
Church, the Sunday when we commemorate the life of St. Mary of Egypt. The
story goes ...
What I've been up to, 2018
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The big thing this year was the "Political Theory In/ And/ As Political
Science conference. It was intellectually terrific and a lot of fun, and I
think it...
New Material on the Way
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What a year this has been. I’ve had a very heavy teaching load and more
administrative duties at the university. I’ve also increased my output of
scholarly...
The Return of Storytelling in a Digital Age
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Podcast stories, like reading, have the advantage of engaging the
audience’s imagination. And lest the technophobes among us decry the
dominance of
The...
Kieran Oberman – Border Rescue
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Kieran’s paper raised the pressing concern with the states’ moral
responsibility for the deaths of migrants trying to cross borders. In
particular, it aske...
We’re Moving!
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[image: photo of a packed-up office with lots of moving boxes]
Some personal news: All things have a life cycle, and in this instance it
is time for Prof...
The Humane Pursuits of Brian Brown
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A fond farewell: Former Pray Channel editor toasts HP and its founder in
this, our 1,000th (and final) post. ...
The post The Humane Pursuits of Brian B...
Improving Policy Debates
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I agree with much of Eliot Cohen’s criticism of the Munich Security
Conference. I like his creative phrases, but the SAIS professor is too
harsh, too mac...
Using this Blog as a Teaching Resource
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If you are wondering how Philosopher might be used as a teaching resource,
look no further! At the Deviant Philosopher, Kathryn Norlock has created an
assi...
How to Measure Imagination
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Scott Barry Kaufman
*Aspen, Colo.* — A couple of days ago I took a walk down a narrow, somewhat
perilous mountain trail with Scott Barry Kaufman, scienti...
So long, and thanks for all the fish
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by Massimo Pigliucci
Or, as the title of the last Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
wistfully announced: “All good things…”
This is the last Ration...
A New Home for On Hiring
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Attention, readers: On Hiring is moving!
We’ve had a great run here on chronicle.com for the past six and a half
years. But now we’ve found a new home on...
Silence and Returns
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Some of you may have noticed I have been silent for a rather long while.
Some of you may also have noticed I broke my silence over the last few
days, but w...
Denver-area pro-lifers, take note
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The 2013 Denver March for Life will take place Sunday, Jan. 20 outside the
capitol building. Mass begins at the cathedral at 10:30, while speeches
begin at...
The Austerity Trap: Is Past Prologue?
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Predictably, the unemployment rate rises above 25 percent, riots and
demonstrations ensue, and an extreme right-wing party rapidly gains
adherents. What th...
Introducing The Conversation
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Brainstorm readers: We’re excited to call your attention to The
Conversation, *The Chronicle’*s new home for opinion and ideas online.
Building on Brains...
John F. Nash Jr. was best known for advances in game theory, which is essentially the study of how to come up with a winning strategy in the game of life — especially when you do not know what your competitors are doing and the choices do not always look promising.
The film “A Beautiful Mind,” based on Dr. Nash’s life, tries to explain game theory in a scene in which Russell Crowe, playing Dr. Nash, is at a bar with three friends, and they are all enraptured by a beautiful blond woman who walks in with four brunette friends...
Dr. Nash did not invent game theory; the mathematician John von Neumann did the pioneering work to establish the field in the first half of the 20th century. But Dr. Nash extended the analysis beyond zero-sum, I-win-you-lose types of games to more complex situations in which all of the players could gain, or all could lose....
Dr. David Bradshaw, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kentucky specializes in the philosophical division between the Greek-speaking East and Latin-speaking West. Interviewed by Russian clergy, he talks about the relationship between theology and philosophy. Several of his articles can be found online at the link below...
Kerry wants to propose this to whoever owns the loan, but this brings
him to this peculiar problem mortgage owners face now. They have no idea
who that is. Richard's loan has been bought, and sold, and resold, and
put into one of those pools owned by investors
I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another. - Socrates, Memorabilia
Salus populi suprema lex esto. -Cicero, De Legibus
What we maintain is that in none of the problems of life can men afford to lose sight of the storehouse bequeathed to them by the ancients. In the complexus of everything which differentiates man from the brute creation, the voice of antiquity must be heard...
-H. Browne, quoted in "Classics and Citizenship" The Classical Quarterly, 1920