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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 67.2: Good News for Anxious Christians
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- Episode 67: A Christmas Carol
- Episode 66: Desert Island Books
- Episode 65: Academic Conferences
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
I suppose I am a liberal
“True, these principles sound pretty elementary — “we’re pro-free speech and anti-gratuitous violence” — but in the days since the pope’s sermon, I don’t feel that I’ve heard them defended in anything like a unanimous chorus.” I read this call … Continue reading
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Nihil sub sole novum
There is nothing new under the sun. But you haven’t been around that long, cynic. There is nothing new under the sun. But you haven’t seen nearly as much, traditionalist. There is nothing new under the sun. But you stand … Continue reading
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An Extra in Bartholomew Fair
I’m about to head upstairs to play the Puritan for my office mate’s surprise classroom production of Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair. Typecasting? Probably. No matter; one has to love a play in which a Puritan loses a theological debate to a … Continue reading
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Plato’s Guardians and UGA’s… what?
We finished up our second Plato “unit” (actually just read enough pages to get to paper 2′s revision days) with a haphazard discussion of whether or not UGA students are somehow analogous to Plato’s guardians. Some folks seem pretty comfortable … Continue reading
Censorship
Discussion went well yesterday, though I should have planned better in both cases. We established that censorship can happen in all kinds of contexts and all kinds of reasons but did not have enough time in the end to explore … Continue reading
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The Ring of Gyges
Imagine that there’s a ring that turns one invisible, that one could do anything, moral or immoral, without being seen. (No, not even by the hellish bad guys in Lord of the Rings.) Now imagine that one had the resources … Continue reading
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Morality as Reason
10 o’clock class was tired today. That or I’m just not connecting with their corporate personality the way I connect with 9 o’clock. However one slices it, my first discussion session went better than my second. Teaching Republic once again … Continue reading
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Morality and Power
Friday (yesterday) we covered the rambling opening to Republic and the first salvos between Socrates and Thrasmychus. Once again, unlike the three-year-old comp anthologies, which always seem dated, my classes dug into the two-millennium-old debates about morality and power with … Continue reading
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