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Cafe Third Edition: October 2005
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On great books and ideas. Sunday, October 02, 2005. Christians and the Death Penalty. Joseph Bottum in First Things. Voltaire came across the anti-death-penalty arguments of an Italian criminologist named Cesare Beccaria and promptly used them, with enormous success, as yet another weapon in his war against Christianity. The traditional Christian teachings, which had typically functioned to restrict the severity of criminal sentences, were suddenly declared to have been teachings. But even if one does mo...
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Cafe Third Edition: May 2006
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On great books and ideas. Tuesday, May 23, 2006. The Tyranny of Common Sense. David Papineau in TPM Online. Quantum mechanics as understood by practising physicists is effectively incoherent, and the only way that physics students can be made to accept it is by being repeatedly told that it is unscientific to ask awkward questions. Posted by Terrence Berres at 7:43 PM. Center for the Study of The Great Ideas. Perry v Schwarzenegger - A New Scopes Trial? The Ascent of Money - A Review. War Games - A Review.
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Knight's Castle: Reading List: January 2013
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Sunday, May 26, 2013. Reading List: January 2013. For 2013 I am once again following a reading program which will complete the Bible in the course of the year. The NIV Study Bible. Begun January 3 and completed January 17, 2013. New York: The...
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Knight's Castle: October 2012
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Sunday, October 21, 2012. Reading List: September 2012. In September, 2012, I continued to read some books that I had started some time earlier, as well as some newly begun works. Joseph Schmuller, Ph.D.,. Excel Dashboards and Reports. New Yo...
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Knight's Castle: The Principle Principle
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. One of my correspondents likes to refer to what he calls the "harm principle." I think it offends him that some of us find this so-called principle incoherent and unintelligible. What is a principle? The New Roget's T...
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Knight's Castle: Reading List: December 2012
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Saturday, January 26, 2013. Reading List: December 2012. H V Morton,. A Traveller in Italy. Complete Italian: The Basics. I started this book on November thirtieth, and I'm still working on it. The unification of Italy, was really a conquest ...
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Knight's Castle: April 2012
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Friday, April 27, 2012. How do we know that the War of 1812 was lost? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I note that a number of the Republican Presidentia. Anderson, Poul. Rise of the Terran Empire. Antonella Ansari. Complete Italian: The Basics.
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Knight's Castle: August 23, 2014
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Saturday, August 23, 2014. August 23, 2014. Years ago, my sister Nancy gave me. A Book of Days for the Literary Year. Here's an example of what the book contains. Virgo - the virgin - begins (through September 22). 1851 Honore de Balzac's.
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Knight's Castle: August 2014
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Saturday, August 23, 2014. Reading List: February 2013. So what was I reading early last year? I continued re-reading the. Finishing the books of. So here's the bare list:. Simon Winchester, editor,. The Best American Travel Writing 2009.
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Knight's Castle: November 2010
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Sunday, November 7, 2010. Polling on the Republican Future. Do you believe that the Republicans' gains in Congress mean that they will dominate our politics for the next five years? President Obama: Change Your Methods, Not Your Goals. David ...
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