Philosophy
In this talk I attempt to explain the distinctive features of human civilization. Animals have forms of social organization and communication but they do not have money, property, government, and marriage. Why not? Human institutional facts are created and maintained by a specific type of linguistic representation that I call a “status function declaration.” This [...]
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Sam Harris, in his book “The Moral Landscape”, defines good as that which moves away from “the worst possible misery”. Once we conceive of “the worst possible misery for everyone” then we can talk about taking incremental steps towards this abyss. -Sam Harris, Moral Landscape, pg 39 While listening to Sam’s opening speech in his [...]
The best way to write a bestseller is to have a compelling, action-packed narrative. In the Christian market it seems the best route to take is to buck accepted wisdom, to tell everyone that what they thought was a good idea really isn’t and that what we should do is overhaul our lives. This isn’t [...]
[HT Randy Alcorn] Abortion Debate at Westmont College from Randy Alcorn on Vimeo.
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Most testimonies I’ve heard or read (including mine to a large degree) are rather dry and uninviting. They contain little more than a historical account of someone’s life. Rarely do we come across a testimony whose author manages to invite us into their journey and share with us the experience of their internal turmoil which [...]
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[HT Crossway] SFLA 2011 Scott Klusendorf from Alliance Defense Fund on Vimeo.
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A friend of a friend posted the following picture on Facebook recently and it elicited a rather rich and lively discussion. The graphic and related articles attempt to convey the absurdity and hypocrisy of states which allow marriage between close cousins (like gypsies) which poses a host of health risks, but disallow same sex marriage which they assume is [...]
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“Mozart Was a Red” is, to my knowledge, Murray N. Rothbard’s one and only play. It is a form unusual for him, but one well suited to its subject: the cult that grew up around the novelist Ayn Rand and flourished in the 60s and early 70s. For the principal figures of Rand’s short-lived “Objectivist” [...]
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Brian McLaren, a rockstar pastor in California, describes “A New Kind of Christianity”. However when he’s done deconstructing every central tenet of Christinaity as defined by Scripture, its quite clear that what he’s really offering is something completely different he’s calling Christianity.
The federal budget is a hot and devicive debate recently. Battle lines have been clearly drawn between conservatives and liberals but I wonder if both sides really understand the battle each is fighting against the other. So in an effort to help both sides understand one another better, and hopefully have more productive conversations, here [...]
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