Curt Doolittle

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  • YES WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS, BUT HOW TO WE KNOW WHICH ONES? —“…there is simply

    YES WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS, BUT HOW TO WE KNOW WHICH ONES?

    —“…there is simply no avoiding the conclusion that the human race is mad. There are scarcely any human beings who do not have some lunatic beliefs or other to which they attach great importance. People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.”—David Stove

    If you cannot make your argument in operational language you do not understand it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 12:48:00 UTC

  • WARRANTY : THE CHURCH, ACADEMY AND GOVERNMENT The church, the academy, and the g

    WARRANTY : THE CHURCH, ACADEMY AND GOVERNMENT

    The church, the academy, and the government, like commerce, all share in a similar bias: that of obtaining customers for their services, regardless of the merit or consequence of consuming those services. The church sold immortality, indulgences, and the forgiveness of sin. The academy sells equality, diversity, socialism and the promise of prosperity. The government sells laws, redistribution, the myth of unity, and the promise of risk abatement. Yet the church, nor the academy nor the government warranty those wares. No other industries have such privileges: selling false promises that profit the seller at the expense of the buyer. An the church, academy and government criticize the entrepreneur, who alone among them, must warranty his wares.

    There is a good reason we cannot trust the church, the academy, and the government: we desire benefits for our family and tribe and they seek to profit from the largest possible numbers of customers.

    How is it then that would could ensure that church, academy and government had the same incentives as private industry?

    Universal standing and requirement of warranty.

    The common law works – if the church, academy, and government let it. But then, they have every incentive not to let the common law serve us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 12:16:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://ish.re/CV6F

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:33:00 UTC

  • 10 Economists

    http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all10.htmlTop 10 Economists

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:08:00 UTC

  • left yet again predicting capitalisms demise. The resurrection cult at work

    http://newleftreview.org/II/87/wolfgang-streeck-how-will-capitalism-endThe left yet again predicting capitalisms demise.

    The resurrection cult at work…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:01:00 UTC

  • (We not only tell the truth, we warranty our words.)

    (We not only tell the truth, we warranty our words.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 10:01:00 UTC

  • Damn. Looks like there will be collateral damage to Popper. Dialectic an unaccou

    Damn. Looks like there will be collateral damage to Popper.

    Dialectic an unaccountability for one’s words, as well as for one’s hypotheses.

    Reimagining platonism to do it.

    Our heroes fail us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 09:58:00 UTC

  • Another July Conqueror

    Another July Conqueror

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 07:42:00 UTC

  • It was sitting in front of us all the time. Just laying there. Obvious. We could

    It was sitting in front of us all the time. Just laying there. Obvious. We could have picked it up and run with it at any time.

    “The People Who Speak The Truth”

    The only people who do, for that matter.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 07:28:00 UTC

  • ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM —“The completeness of Nozick’s compos

    ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM

    —“The completeness of Nozick’s composition is remarkable: he touches somewhere in the book, however lightly, almost every note of American decadence. Gandhi is there. The necessary deference to feminism is there. The necessary reproof to “racism” is there. Carlos Castaneda is there, referred to as though he were a thinker, which he is not… . Drugs of course are there, and in no unfavorable light: drugs may have their place, Nozick thinks, in “the treatment for philosophical parochialism.” Has he left anything out? Is there anyone in post-Vietnam America who needs to be placated, whom he has not placated? This was obviously a worry, and there is a nervous catch-all reference to “children’s rights, the treatment of animals, domination and ecological awareness.””—-

    –“Nozick looked forward to a new version of philosophy that would replace arguments with a kinder, gentler alternative—explanations—because arguments, after all, attempt “to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not.”—

    From David Stove

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 06:24:00 UTC