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		<title>Book Review: Civilization from Alfred North Whitehead&#8217;s The Adventure of Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Whitehead&#8217;s discussion of civilization in the book The Adventure of Ideas he argues that “[t]he most un-Greek thing that we can do, is to copy the Greeks. (353)” This argument comes from the historical look at all civilizations looking towards perfection by trying to copy the past. For Whitehead, this is a great perversion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Monkey Business: Animal Rights and International Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the failed attempt at a League of Nations and the creation of the United Nations, philosopher John Stuart Mill recognized that international relations was not just an empirical study, but a normative one. He tells us that a fundamental goal of philosophers should be to formulate “some rule or criterion whereby the justifiableness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True or False?: An updated look at the fictive use of language</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth-value and function of fictive uses of language have plagued analytic philosophers. The greats have all given different answers when faced with a statement like “Tom Sawyer ran away from home”, true or false, even though a 12 year old tends to have no problem with the question. (Blocker 27) Meinong said it was true, after some conceptual additions to language; Russell said it was false because there was no Tom Sawyer; and Strawson said “none of the above” because it wasn't a statement at all. Since the works of all three of these philosophers, and many others on the subject, the issue has still not been totally resolved. Works by H. Gene Blocker and Richard M. Gale may be able to shed light on the issue, however, from its two most important aspects. Gale spends his time focusing on what it means to use language fictively, what is actually being done when an actor utters a statement like “Hamlet killed his father” or an author writes in his novel “four legs good, two legs bad.” Meanwhile, Blocker explores what can be said about those fictive words, whether we can truthfully say Claudius said Hamlet killed his own father or a talking pig said “four legs good, two legs bad.” The combined effect of these two is to give a greater insight into how we use language, generally, and what it means to use language fictively.]]></description>
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		<title>No Difference: Quine, Strawson and Grice on the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Brief comparison of Quine, Strawson and Grice on the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction. Not a polished product, but nonetheless an informative one.]]></description>
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		<title>Violent Interpretations: Nietzsche&#8217;s Take on Environmentalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to “European” existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche “our whole attitude toward nature today is hubris, our raping of nature by means of machines and the unthinking resourcefulness of technicians and engineers” (Geneaology sec. 3.9). Despite this seemingly explicit call for a radical environmental ethic, his philosophy has continually been criticized as “elitist” and, in the eyes of the ecologically embraced Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche's philosophizing represents the culmination of metaphysical thinking, one which is subjectivistic, anthropocentric and voluntaristic and that affirms technological domination of the natural world (Hallman 99). Against these contradictory claims about one of the world's most influential philosophers it seems important to explore Nietzsche's contributions to the human-nature debate and bring together both the use and abuse of Nietzsche for environmental ethics. This task will take place in three main sections – first, an exploration of Nietzsche's rejection of metaphysics and “grounding” of the human being; second, by exploring the concept of the “will to power;” and, finally, through reexamining Nietzsche's most controversial concept, the ubermensch.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethic of Life: Process Philosophy and Environmental Stewardship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “when we view reality in terms of dependent origination&#8230; [i]t challenges us to see things and events less in terms of black and white and more in terms of a complex interlinking of relationships” (41). Dependent origination, and process philosophy in general, forces us to look beyond the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locke &amp; The Legitimacy of Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a critique of United States involvement in Iraqi and Afghani elections, anti-war activist and member of the board of directors for Peace Action Rahul Mahajan exclaimed “[w]e Americans tend to use words like ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ in a purely talismanic manner, without attaching any actual meaning to them (2)”. With the US military first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egalitarianism in the Western World: Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Nature of Man</title>
		<link>http://disembodied.us/ds/?p=37</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson, in analyzing different forms of society, proclaimed, “whether no law… or too much law… submits man to the greatest evil, one who has seen both conditions of existence would pronounce it to be the last” (Matthews 63). It would seem, despite his grouping with people like Madison and Hamilton as a founding father, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hobbes&#8217;s Hidden Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a specific criticism of what he called the &#8220;liberal&#8217;s failure&#8221;, founder and chairman of the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism Nicholas Provenzo exclaimed &#8220;[t]he pattern endures, the repeated error of treating dictators as &#8216;rational actors&#8217; and predicting their actions based on that assumption that dictators will choose a course of action that benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Necessity of and Alternatives to the State</title>
		<link>http://disembodied.us/ds/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great anarchist thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon announced, “The government of man by man is servitude.”(Guérin 15) Since the times of the Ancient Greeks humans, as a whole, have consistently insisted on being ruled by a government. This insistence has led many theorists to prepare rationalizations for the state in hopes of justifying the oppression a [...]]]></description>
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