More comments from this… Interesting…I had no idea there was a LDS faithful, continental strain at BYU. Of course, I would have believed there were continental philosophers there but without any necessary allegiance to Mormonism as Catholic Universities like DePaul have fantastic programs in continental philosophy but from my personal experience there I knew none [...]
With regard to Clark’s latest comment… “I think when one is going through the texts doing phenomenology that the phenomena ends up being the same.” I suppose this makes me think that Derrida might think about the ‘same’ here as the im-possiblity of the ‘same’ as he does of the im-possiblity of justice. We must [...]
With regard to this: Clark, Thanks for your comments. I understand your comment about older writings and certainly experience the draught of Lethe, the ever forgetful retreat from Mnemosyne, at the ancient age of 55! I agree with much of your thought on Levinas. I also have written and thought about the middle voice in [...]
Santorum stated today that rights come from above (God) not man. He went on to say that health care is not a right given by God but by man (government – Obama). Let’s forget the fact that Jesus said he came for the sick and not the well and spent most of his time on [...]
A letter from Paul: My religion believes in real ‘pro life’. We do not know when sub-dividing cells become human life but we do believe that cellular division at conception is NOT yet a ‘human life’ that merits legal protections. As such, our religious freedom has been trampled on by the fake ‘pro-lifers’ that mandated [...]
Rather often I feel like listening to the Republicans is like living in Alice’s wonderland. Here are some examples: Who created more debt Bush or Obama? The opiate truth: Obama increased the national debt vastly more than any other president. The non-opiate truth: The Graph – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is non-partisan. Here [...]
Here is my rebuttal of this, http://critical-thinker.net/?p=1025 First, I would not maintain that idealizing the past is solely a conservative issue. I think you can always find cases where any group idealizes the past. However, in my opinion, the fallacy in your counter argument is of cherry picking. Admittedly, I have not done any statistical [...]
With regard to the comments on this post… http://critical-thinker.net/?p=989#comments First, I would NEVER advocate or imply violence. I will leave that to gun toting revolutionaries on the right – “the blood of patriots and tyrants” folks. I pay taxes to support police and military to make sure violence is NOT how we solve problems in [...]
Conservatives want to conserve. Certainly this is ostensively true. The question of conservatism comes when the object of conservatism is explicitly posed. For example, conservatives are fond of talking about the past. They believe that their notion of the past is ‘real’. However, an objection could be made that their interpretation is ideal and therefore, [...]
