CALL FOR PAPERS The fifth annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford Campus of Felician College 223 Montross Ave, Rutherford, NJ 07070 Saturday, April 30, 2011, 9 am – 6 pm Plenary Speaker: John E. Hare Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Yale Divinity School, Yale University, and author … Continue reading
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7635213/
Sean Tevis, a forty year old self-described ‘information architect,’ suffered a setback to his bid to become the United States Representative from Kansas’ 2nd district on Tuesday, finishing third in that (rather red) state’s Democratic primary. As a New Yorker not paid to know the political preferences of Kansans in August, perhaps my mention of … Continue reading
The art of the real.
This Saturday (April 24), Felician College will host the 4th annual Ethics Conference. All are welcome. Here is the schedule. http://faculty.felician.edu/khawajai/
What made the West modern was the progression of its philosophy into political form. With Locke’s liberalism, the privilege of pursuing the true and the good inaugurated by Plato was wrested back from the religious (and anyone else who claimed authority by divine right) and redistributed to the People to whom, apparently, it had always … Continue reading
Here is a conversation piece from the Economist year-end issue. Pros will no doubt find enough to nit-pick over, but I’m more interested in its ‘sociological’ take on Socrates and the Athens-America parallel. The attributed resemblance between Socrates and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is a bit rich, but if you want to think about … Continue reading
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