Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Part 3 of "Nietzsche's Sociobiology of Animal Morality"

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THE "SOCIAL MORALITY" OF "POLITE SOCIETY" "The practices demanded in polite society: careful avoidance of the ridi...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Part 2 of "Nietzsche's Sociobiology of Animal Morality"

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I will organize my commentary around words selected from the passage I have quoted--section 26 of Nietzsche's Dawn . "ANIMALS AND...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Nietzsche's Sociobiology of Animal Morality

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In 1975, Edward O. Wilson declared on the first page of Sociobiology that it was time to take ethics away from the philosophers and turn it...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Nietzsche Under Lou Salomé’s Whip

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This famous--if not infamous--photograph was taken in a photographer's studio in Lucerne, Switzerland, on May 13, 1882.  Friedrich Nie...
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Monday, January 07, 2013

The Neurological and Philosophical Causes of Nietzsche's Madness

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In December of 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche's friends began receiving letters from him with disturbing signs of madness.  He signed the let...
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Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in Evolutionary History

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This past New Year's Day was the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was formally issued on Janu...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Girgis, Anderson, & George on "What Is Marriage?"--The Book

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Two years ago, Sherif Girgis, Ryan Anderson, and Robert George published an article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy on ...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Roger Williams Was Right: The Biblical Basis of Legal Toleration

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The secularization of politics through the liberal policy of legal toleration is largely a product of Christianity.  Liberal secularism has ...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Why Do We Tolerate Atheists? Locke, Bayle, and Darwin

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"For hundreds of years, Hell has been the most fearful place in the human imagination.  It is also the most absurd." That's ...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Glory of Suicidal Mass Killings

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Adam Lankford's op-ed article in The New York Times seems to me to be one of the best explanations for suicidal mass killers like Adam...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Evolution, the Human Sciences, and Liberty: A Mont Pelerin Society Meeting in the Galapagos

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In June, the Mont Pelerin Society will be meeting in the Galapagos Islands for a conference on "Evolution, the Human Sciences, and Libe...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

John Locke and the "Appeal to Heaven" Flag

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As I have suggested in some previous posts, John Locke's "appeal to Heaven" shows a natural inclination to violent resistan...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Might Makes Right

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If it's rightly understood, it's really true that might makes right . That's one of the recurrent themes in my writing for thi...
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