Showing posts with label sunday worship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunday worship. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Moral Leadership
If you want a damning indictment of the philosophy profession today, look no further than the fact that in the mind of the mainstream American, "moral leader" tends to signify "religious leader." Of course, given the meaning of "religion" in such a person's mind, this is a devastating package-deal, all rendered and accepted quite efficiently at the unexamined subconscious level; so why wouldn't "moral leader" tend to signify "philosopher"? Because (a) the mainstream of the philosophy profession has defaulted on moral theory, making it essentially useless to the community for workable moral guidance; (What moral leader is the Machiavellian-pragmatist Obama consulting these days, especially since he threw the Rev. Wright under the bus a while back?) and (b) When the mainstream American seeks moral advice on something, one can throw a stone and hit a priest, pastor, rabbi, etc. On the off-chance that consulting a philosopher for moral advice ever even occurs to such a person, how would the person know where to go?
In a perfectivism-enriched world, there would be no such problem.
In a perfectivism-enriched world, there would be no such problem.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunday Worship, 3/6/2011
Per Christian Malloch
I would like to think that my forthcoming opus is what Per might have written were he still around. He was effing brilliant.
And thank Rand for emphasizing the role of integration in cognitive perfection!
I would like to think that my forthcoming opus is what Per might have written were he still around. He was effing brilliant.
And thank Rand for emphasizing the role of integration in cognitive perfection!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Ayn Rand: The Unknown Ideal
With appropriate modifications:
"No [thinker] in history has ever proved [her] value so eloquently . . . as [Ayn Rand] - and none has ever been attacked so savagely, viciously and blindly. The flood of misinformation, misrepresentation, distortion and outright falsehood about [Ayn Rand and Objectivism] is such that the young people of today have no idea (and virtually no way of discovering any idea) of [their] actual nature. . . . [They are being attacked] in a manner of a nightmare lynching - as if a blind, despair-crazed mob were burning a straw man, not knowing that the grotesquely deformed bundle of straw is hiding the living body of the ideal."
-- Introduction to Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
"No [thinker] in history has ever proved [her] value so eloquently . . . as [Ayn Rand] - and none has ever been attacked so savagely, viciously and blindly. The flood of misinformation, misrepresentation, distortion and outright falsehood about [Ayn Rand and Objectivism] is such that the young people of today have no idea (and virtually no way of discovering any idea) of [their] actual nature. . . . [They are being attacked] in a manner of a nightmare lynching - as if a blind, despair-crazed mob were burning a straw man, not knowing that the grotesquely deformed bundle of straw is hiding the living body of the ideal."
-- Introduction to Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Sunday worship, 12/5/2010
"It is a philistinic culture that does not appreciate the genius of Kayo Dot."
- The Ultimate Philosopher
- The Ultimate Philosopher
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sunday worship, 7/25/2010
ADDENDUM 7/28/2010: I have some other thoughts I'd like to blog, but I'll just keep this posting at the top for a little while longer. I mean, how does one outdo this? :-)
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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