| 8.2.02 |
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY-- The six points of Western Philosophy, the philisophical foundations that the wars of culture are fought over:
1) Things are independent of us.
2) Things are knowable.
3) Truth = knowing the knowable.
4) The will is free.
5) Ethical truths can be know for certain.
6) Dualism.
This is the formulation we are using in class but I propose to clean it up a little bit.
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| 5.2.02 |
INTERESTING COMPLIMENT-- "When you read his footnotes, you may not know waht he's talking about, but it's fascinating to know that someone out there does," Jonah Goldberg said in reference to Bernard Lewis, a scholar of the middle east.
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DEADLINE PRESSURE-- There's an advantage to having some journalsim under your belt. Last night I sat down and wrote a 1,000 word paper in four hours. I felt good about that, though we'll see how my prof. treats it when he reviews my draft this afternoon.
If procrastination were a religious experience do you realize how holy college would be?
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BLOGGING-- I may not be at the very cutting edge but at least I beat Time magazine.
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| 3.2.02 |
POSTING-- Do I just post on Sunday afternoons?
With a four day weekend because of power outages and snow, rain and ice I haven't done much recently. I need to finish some homework for tomorrow's classes. I hope to post something on inductive, deductive and inference to the best possibility logic in the near future. Maybe tonight or tomorrow.
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HILLARY-- She's helping out governors and that makes some folks think she's running, according to a story posted on Drudge. Her staffers sound a little tierd/irritated at the persistence of this story.
I don't think she is. Hillary as President is just a Conservative boggie man to raise money. Of course, I've also got a bet that she won't enter the 2004 race. So I really don't want her to run even though if she did I don't think she could win anything outside NYC.
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FREE SPEACH II-- What I did find suprising, maybe I shouldn't have, was that the 501(c)3 restriction on church's political speach was passed under LBJ.
Still no word on why it applies to right wing churchs and not black churchs.
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FREE SPEACH-- The Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act looks like it could let church's and etc. comment on our political world withour getting nasty letters (or worse) from the IRS.
Now if only American congregations would let the Word of God speak about something other than their emotions and their personal salvation.
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