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Hazony vs Kirk
In Conservatism: A Rediscovery (2022), Yoram Hazony treats Russell Kirk's (1953) The Conservative Mind as "the most important book by a postwar American…
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Long Covid Diaries: new Medical Treatment (and some blog house-keeping).
It's been about five weeks since I switched Digressions to Substack and last wrote an entry in my covid diary. (For my official "covid diaries" see…
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Quining Quine and Spinosizing Spinoza; reflections on Dennett and Tocqueville
I like to imagine that Dan Dennett started his celebrated (1988) "Quining qualia" as an attempt to publish a journal article in the manner of a comic…
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Stebbing on Clarity with nods to Kuhn, Sellars, and Quine
One of the eye-opening claims in Frederique Janssen-Lauret's recent (2022) Cambridge Elements on Susan Stebbing is that "much of Stebbing's published…
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On Clarity from the early Moderns to Early Analytic Philosophy, especially Stebbing.
From Descartes to Hume, the so-called ‘way of ideas,’ was devoted to the notion that clarity is a desirable and potential property or quality of ideas…
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On Hazony and Bourke on Burke and Frank S. Meyer, and the risks of Freedom
Lodged inside Yoram Hazony's Conservatism: A Rediscovery is also a polemic against what came to be known as 'fusionism.' (Recall my series of posts on…
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On the functional role of 'Woke;' Huntington, and Abstract, Imaginary Threats.
For various reasons, not the least because it's so rarely done, I am planning to teach a course on 'modern conservatism' this Fall. I've been canvassing…
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On the Origins of Liberalism: The Swedish Revolution of 1809 and Adam Smith
As regular readers know, (recall here; and here) I have argued that the political meaning of 'liberal' that became influential in the nineteenth century…
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Hume, Husserl's Digression, and Foucault's The Order of Things
As I have noted before (recall), Hume plays a triple role in Foucault's (1966) Les mots et les choses (hereafter: The Order of Things).* First…
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On toleration as the origin story of liberalism
Today’s post is only for my paid subscribers. It revisits an argument in my comments (recall here) delivered on 10 March, 2023 Celebrating the Lee Kong…
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On Stebbing, Spinoza, and the Cognitive Demands of Political Freedom, Part 2
For Stebbing (recall) clarity is a property of cognition and intelligence. Clarity is necessary condition for success at thinking and action guided by…
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On Clarity, Philosophical Preaching (and a hint of culture war issues)
When the story of Wiley's sacking of Goodin and subsequent resignations of board members first dribbled out, I suspect I was not the only one who went…
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