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This is only a starting point, and I may not be able to employ it for my actual dissertation, but it is the line of thinking which consumes all of my free thoughts.
This work provides an alternative narrative mode (the Virginia School of Political Economy rather than Marx) for the discussion of Theology [...]
Which is why I’m posting it on a public website…
Today (The fact that this came in on the day before the 4th seems very strategic, especially considering the appeals to nationalism within.) I got a letter from Advancing Native Missions.
They say, amongst other things:
Please forgive the urgent, confidential nature of this letter. But I do [...]
In conversations about difficult topics it is important to share definitions. Capitalism is a word of many meanings.
In this conversation I lay out a defense of what I consider pure Capitalism and how Christians ought to behave among themselves, and what positions they ought to advocate – if any – in public policy debates. I [...]
Kids often fight over things which were gifts from their parents.
Suppose I slice a cake into several (unequal) pieces, and distribute them to my children. Now, this is cake mind you, not bread, not water. It is a pure bonus. Dessert. So I dole out the cake. It is quite likely that an argument will [...]
I highly encourage all of you to go take this short survey. My results demonstrate how rare a bird I am. I would have liked to have some of the questions worded differently, but I doubt very many other people would recognize the significance in the changes I would make – least of all the [...]
Tyler Cowen on bloggingheads with Peter Singer.
I took a course in Political Philosophy my senior year at NC State. It was the best course I never should have taken. The time requirements were large, and the material greatly distracted me from learning the tools of economics, which, quite frankly, are boring as hell. But I [...]
The Common Sense Atheist wants atheists to promote evidence-based thinking, but also to recognize many Christians have strong emotional and relational investments in their beliefs.
I’d like to see those emotional ties attached to self-interested motives removed from the reasons why many of us maintain our Christianity.
The quote, with my thoughts in italics:
For example, let me [...]
Who is worth more: a person alive 100 years ago, a person alive today, a person alive 100 years from now, or a person who is never born, or a person who has always existed?
Often times arguments about sustainability imply that there is some objective standard by which having fewer people today, and fewer people [...]
I wonder whether impoverished individuals ought to be permitted to share sex? That is, when the poor copulate, they become pregnant, birthing more children into poverty. It is a curious fact that the poor have more children than the wealthy. Of course, the wealthy can afford birth control – but the poor could abstain. But [...]
From a conversation at Common Root, my thoughts:
Men are constantly trying to justify a collective which imposes claims upon the lives of its members. My thinking on this line is informed by Ayn Rand (of all people!) but I think it meshes quite well with the Hauerwasian thesis.
Any time two people come together there is [...]