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Quitting Providence: Virtue of the Dragon
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Virtue of the Dragon. UPDATE 2014.10.31: I have added a bit of detail here and there and edited some typos. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (completed by Brandon Sanderson) presents an excellent study in contrast of the pagan versus the Christian virtues, as well as a lesson in the balance of the virtues. I will assume FULL SPOILER. Given the FULL SPOILER. And the access keys to the Choedan Kal. Items potentially giving him godlike power. But he resists the temptation to use...
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Quitting Providence: Burdened Virtues
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Monday, April 20, 2015. In Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles. One of the more fascinating discussions within the book is of the impact conditions of oppression have on privileged persons. The virtue of practical moral wisdom that unites the rest of the virtues into some kind of organic whole. But there's no mention of either phronesis or the unity of the virtues in the index. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mountain View, California, United States. View my complete profile.
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Quitting Providence: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Virtue of the Dragon. UPDATE 2014.10.31: I have added a bit of detail here and there and edited some typos. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (completed by Brandon Sanderson) presents an excellent study in contrast of the pagan versus the Christian virtues, as well as a lesson in the balance of the virtues. I will assume FULL SPOILER. Given the FULL SPOILER. And the access keys to the Choedan Kal. Items potentially giving him godlike power. But he resists the temptation to use...
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Quitting Providence: April 2013
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013. US Muslims by the numbers. I was interested to read Reihan Salam's recent post on the future of Islam in America. He offers his perspective growing up Muslim (his parents had immigrated from Muslim majority Bangladesh) and opines that American Muslims will grow more secular over time (just as the rest of the country seems to be doing). But it was the quantitative information he quotes that really jolted me. 275 million is less than 1% of the US population! Links to this post.
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Quitting Providence: November 2014
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Thursday, November 20, 2014. Hayekian feminism: a challenge to libertarians. Charles Johnson's " Women and the Invisible Fist. This is all accomplished on the basis of dispersed, consensual. Interactions. But spontaneous order can just as well arise from dispersed, coercive. Human relations, without conscious design. But Johnson can say this better than I can (emphasis in original):. Requires that emergent orders need be benign. Since libertarians are centrally concerned with individual freedom from viol...
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Quitting Providence: March 2014
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Saturday, March 8, 2014. Capabilities and the impossibility of justice. In my ongoing quest to grok justice, I read Martha Nussbaum's Frontiers of Justice. And was duly impressed. The aim of the book is to extend justice to areas left out by other approaches. These areas include individuals with disabilities, individuals living beyond the borders of the nation of interest, and sentient non-human species. The book elaborates on the so-called "capabilities approach" to justice. 1 Life. Being able to li...
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Quitting Providence: June 2013
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Sunday, June 9, 2013. Martin Luther King Jr and open borders. UPDATE: I've edited this post slightly to shorten it and make it a little more readable. Since I believe one of the best strategies for the opening of the world's borders is to cast it as a civil rights issue. King begins his letter defending himself against charges of being an "outside agitator" stirring up trouble in a place where he isn't welcome. The following doesn't really relate to open borders in an obvious way, but it's a beautifu...
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Quitting Providence: July 2013
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Friday, July 5, 2013. Commentary on discrimination and the semi-open border. I have a new post. Up at Open Borders: The Case. Broadly, it's about the relationship between discrimination and immigration restrictions. It comes in two more or less orthogonal parts (I'd considered splitting it up into two separate posts). I'm fairly confident in the first part, about how racism has been an integral part of immigration restrictions in the US from the get-go. Immigration isn't the same as citizenship. Explicit...
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Quitting Providence: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014. What's the impact of a universal basic income on attitudes to foreigners? Apropos of Matt Zwolinski's Cato Unbound forum. To fund a year of service with Doctors Without Borders and that small businessman who saved up a few years' worth of his dividends to launch his vintage auto repair shop. If the UBI isn't seen as welfare, but just as another privilege of citizenship, then might I have some hope that immigrants wouldn't be seen as so much of a threat? Links to this post. What i...
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