Let’s face it. Canadian politics are excruciatingly boring. No Canadian party is going to eliminate medicare or criminalise abortion. And really, what else matters? So it’s no surprise that what counts as civil discourse on the other side of the… Read More ›
Month: July 2024
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
It’s a little known fact that others of our species are not very tasty, at least not to us. I say it’s a little known fact, though I grant that it’s widely believed. This is because the only people who… Read More ›
THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT
The Principle of Double Effect (PDE) exculpates you for the albeit anticipated consequences of your actions – the so-called collateral damage – provided 1) they were not the intention of your action, 2) they were not the means by which… Read More ›
KIMBERLY CHEATLE
So apparently this is how it works: 1) At a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, the United States Secret Service failed to protect presidential candidate Donald Trump. 2) More could have been done towards avoiding this failure…. Read More ›
THREE UNSEEMLY COMMENTS ABOUT THE BUTLER SHOOTING
For what little they’re worth, I have three unseemly comments about tonight’s shooting in Butler. The first is: I wonder how long it will be before the nothing-is-as-it-seems junkies decide it’s too much of a coincidence that the shooter went… Read More ›
ONTOLOGY – third instalment
III. ARE THERE KINDS OF BEING? As we’ve just seen, ontology full stop can’t be about being full stop. But it could be about what kinds of being there are. That horse over there is one kind of being. Pegasus… Read More ›
ONTOLOGY (continued)
II. BEING By ontology-full-stop is meant the study of being. Well that’s not very helpful, now is it? So try this. Of the things that are, as distinct from those that aren’t, what exactly are the former busy doing that… Read More ›
ONTOLOGY
This is the first in a series of entries on ontology, by which is meant the study of being. What about being? Well, for one thing what it is to be. For another, what kinds of being are there? And,… Read More ›
Guest Post: Dissoi Logoi (cf Aristotle), the Devil’s Advocate (Mill), and comments.
Guest Post by Pamela Lindsay. Way, way back in the day — a couple millennia ago — students receiving a classical education would have learned the necessity of Dissoi Logoi to constructing their arguments. That is, they’d throw themselves full… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 