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April 24, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Guest Post M. K. Sometimes Work Does Make Freedom.

In debates between energy and the environment, nuance is too often lost. See also, Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Retrain? Continue reading

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April 24, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. End of the Clapham Line. Guest artist M. K. (Repost Sept. 2020)

The Man on the Clapham Omnibus The ‘Man on the Clapham Omnibus’ is an hypothetical reasonable, ordinary person used in English law courts as a standard to judge the actions of real people in given situations — particularly to determine negligence or liability. For example, Would The Man on the Clapham Omnibus foresee that his Continue reading

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April 10, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Footnotes to Plato.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. –A.N. Whitehead– Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, Gifford Lectures 1927-28, New York: The Free Press, 1973. Internet Archive, accessed April 10, 2021. Part II, Section I, Chapter I. For budding Phil-nerds, here is the Continue reading

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April 9, 2021

Hume on Persuasion.

In On War Carl Von Clausewitz says war is a continuation of politics by other means. Or cf. Foucault, who suggests this definition might be the inverted: politics is a continuation of war by other means. My interest is in the ‘other means’, which include political rhetoric. Broadly defined, rhetoric is “the power of observing the means Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric

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April 7, 2021

Some Problems with Complaisance.

If something doesn’t bother me, e.g. the F-word, why should I be bothered that it bothers you? Let’s start with friendship. As Aristotle notes, “[Friends are] those with whom we are on such terms that, while we respect their opinions, we need not blush before them for doing what is conventionally wrong…” (Aristotle. Rhetoric. Trans. Continue reading

Philosophy, Social and Political Commentary

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April 3, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So … what did you do?

So … what did you do? I broke the Law of the Excluded Middle. Continue reading

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April 3, 2021

Thoughtlets. XLIII.

Never said in a fit of outrage: I could be wrong. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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March 20, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, pp 128-129 Continue reading

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March 19, 2021

Thoughtlets. XLII.

A couple of summers ago I found myself irritated by a teenage girl lying beside a stone bridge along the Llangollen Canal, face stuffed in her cellphone. But why? I’m sure I projected onto her the irritation I feel by noticing people everywhere chained to their electronic devices. And it seemed a certain indignity that Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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March 6, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Highlights from the 2020 High Dudgeon Olympics Chicken-Neck Pole Vaulting Event

High Dudgeon Olympics Chicken-Neck Pole Vaulting Event Athletes stand beside a two meter pole marked by one millimetre increments. The athletes’ neck measurements are recorded on the pole by an official marker. Each athlete is then exposed to an individualized highly offensive opinion. The marker measures the athlete’s neck measurement at the moment of exposure. Continue reading

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