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In defense of Enlightenment idealogy, and ideals

iht.com     10 hrs ago          

Moral Clarity A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists By Susan Neiman 467 pages. $27. But Susan Neiman's previous book on ethics, "Evil in Modern Thought," was widely and favorably reviewed, and the present work is a worthy successor....                

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Edmund Burke and Rhetorical Ideas

vox-nova.com     Jul 22, 2008   1 related          

Previous: Edmund Burke’s Anti-Ideology Edmund Burke’s Concept of Order Burke was strongly against ideology that flows from the contractual, the scientific, or the rational principles of reason. These cannot capture the varied...                

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Reason destroys itself

pheedo.com     Jul 23, 2008   5 related          

Read about all the problems with reason in our special issue DO WE know for certain that 2 plus 2 equals 4? Of course we don't. Maybe every time everybody in the whole world has ever done that calculation and reasoned it...                

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A civil, but still flawed look at Hayek from the left

samizdata.net     Jul 22, 2008   1 related          

It is a measure of how far we have travelled in the world of ideas that the case for state central planning, as was once championed by British Fabian socialists and similar people 100 years ago, struggles to get a respectable...                

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Plato

guardian.co.uk     Jul 22, 2008          

Education He followed the usual curriculum for members of the Athenian aristocracy - grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, gymnastics, games. Critical verdict Plato's position as the father of...                

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"All About Lulu": Bainbridge Island author flexes literary muscles in a winning debut

nwsource.com     Jul 18, 2008          

Bainbridge Island author Jonathan Evison takes on obsessive love, bewildering sibling relations and the world of professional bodybuilding in his debut novel, "All About Lulu." ), and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Eagle Harbor Book Co.,...                

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POTUS (via EC) helps us understand introductory social science

eco-cide.com     Jul 15, 2008   1 related          

From Environmental Capital: President Bush’s decision to lift his father’s White House moratorium on offshore oil drilling lends itself to two readings. It’s either a cynical exercise in passing the energy-policy buck, this...                

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Giambattista Vico

stanford.edu     Jul 15, 2008          

Revised entry by Timothy Costelloe on July 15, 2008. Changes to: Bibliography] Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744) spent most of his professional life as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was trained in...                

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City kills off bid to bring new life to graveyards

scotsman.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Published Date: 14 July 2008 A MAJOR project to regenerate Edinburgh's historic graveyards to make them more attractive to visitors and tourist tours has been shelved by the city council. Plans had been drawn up to revitalise...                

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500,000 turn out for the Twelfth: Belfast Telegraph - Ashleigh McDonald

nuzhound.com     Jul 12, 2008   8 related          

Celebrations of the Battle of the Boyne taking place at eighteen locations thoughout Northern Ireland Tens of thousands of Orangemen were making final preparations today for the annual Twelfth of July celebrations. The events...                

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