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Oct 12, 2008: Read The Classics: A Treatise of Human Nature at Multnomah County Library

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Aug 6, 2008 3 related
        

The Multnomah County Library invites you to take part in a new book series, where you can read some of the best all-time classics and discuss them under the leadership of Paul Hovda, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at...

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How Science Ceases to be Science

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Aug 4, 2008 5 related
        

This is a very good column in The Australian, that debunks global warming. In "Climate Hysterics v Heretics in An Age of Unreason," Arthur Herman shows how science devolves into ideology--as it did during the eugenics panics of...

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Olympic challenge

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Aug 4, 2008
        

David Burchell | August 05, 2008 ALMOST three centuries ago, before the triumph of the social, economic and political arrangements we've come to think of as liberal capitalism, the key European thinkers were caught up in an...

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The Prudent Person: Toward a Christian General Education

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Jul 28, 2008
        

A new school year is beginning and I am trying to capture my feelings about Christian education. The twentieth century loved to speak of “revolutions” . . . even in the area of thought. The outcome was not promising. In the...

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Two tales of murder: Ja and Sáo Paulo

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Jul 27, 2008
        

published: Sunday | July 27, 2008 Kevin O'Brien Chang 'A wise man proportions his beliefs to the evidence.' - In 2000, Jamaica and Sáo Paulo had similar murder rates of about 35 per 100,000. If we had the same homicide rate as...

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In defense of Enlightenment idealogy, and ideals

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Jul 25, 2008
        

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

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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

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Jul 22, 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

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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

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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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