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In memoriam: Alasdair MacIntyreIn memoriam: Alasdair MacIntyre My photo of an elderly MacIntyre speaking in 2019 at “To What End?” Alasdair MacIntyre is dead. He had a very good run, better than many could dream of: he was 95 years old, and produced an output significant enough to be in competition for the title of “greatest philosopher of his age”. Few indeed are the 20th- or 21st-century philosophers who have an...0 Comments 0 Shares 39 Views 0 Reviews
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Catholicism before EuropeCatholicism before Europe Much has been made, in the US at least, of the fact that the new pope – Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV –comes from the USA. The papacy is one of the few institutions in the world where Americans have been under-represented. In recent decades, the reason for that was the US’s disproportionate global influence – a pope from outside the US was seen as a...0 Comments 0 Shares 32 Views 0 Reviews
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Where race and gender overrode everythingWhere race and gender overrode everything A while ago I identified what I considered the Social Justice movement‘s first tenet: that the most urgent issue facing the world in the 21st century is inequalities of race and gender (including sexual orientation and gender identity). I stand by that description. I think that that view is implicit in Ibram X. Kendi’s most widely quoted idea: that...0 Comments 0 Shares 38 Views 0 Reviews
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What should we call the movement?What should we call the movement? In my view the most important thing to acknowledge about the 2010s movement around racial and gender issues is that it exists – something a surprising number of people try to deny. Support it or oppose it or be somewhere in the middle, we need to be able to acknowledge it and discuss it. What we call it is of secondary importance. That said, in order to...0 Comments 0 Shares 28 Views 0 Reviews
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Yes, there is a movementYes, there is a movement A few years ago I attempted to depict the new race/gender movement of the 2010s in a way as neutral, bland, and inoffensive as possible. I got strong pushback even on that much, with a denial that the movement even exists. I knew that the movement I’m describing is highly resistant to being named. What I hadn’t expected was that even the acknowledgement of its...0 Comments 0 Shares 26 Views 0 Reviews
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Why we sometimes need to deadnameWhy we sometimes need to deadname A little while ago I was at a party en femme and met an older man who didn’t know many transgender people but was interested in talking about it. He mentioned someone else he knew who’d transitioned, and asked about how to refer to that person when discussing things they’d done together before the transition. He said that in that context it felt more...0 Comments 0 Shares 46 Views 0 Reviews
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Checks and balances are only as good as their enforcersChecks and balances are only as good as their enforcers When the head of state or government goes rogue, what happens next? Consider the recent experiences of three countries where the top leader pursued an agenda far more radical than they had campaigned on, in a way that caused widespread panic. In South Korea, Yoon-Suk Yeol attempted to impose martial law, marking an attempted return to...0 Comments 0 Shares 51 Views 0 Reviews
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GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEITGILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEIT Edmund HusserlMartin HeideggerGilbert Ryle GILBERT RYLE'S REVIEW OF HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEITIn a 1929 article printed in the journal Mind, Gilbert Ryle wrote a review of Martin Heidegger’s book Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). Although Ryle writes that Heidegger’s book is “a very difficult and important work, which marks a big...0 Comments 0 Shares 47 Views 0 Reviews
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ROUSSEAU'S PARADOX: WE ARE BORN FREE IN CHAINSROUSSEAU'S PARADOX: WE ARE BORN FREE IN CHAINS Jean-Jacques Rousseau Last week I invited a guest to write a blog on Rousseau's The Social Contract. I asked the guest to discuss Rousseau's famous paradox that we are both born free and born in chains. The question for my guest: "How is this possible?" The name of my guest is A.I. Perplexity. Here is Perplexity's answer: The opening...0 Comments 0 Shares 51 Views 0 Reviews
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