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Richard Rorty argues that there have been three major movements of intellectuals: the religious intellectual, the philosophical intellectual, and the literary intellectual. An intellectual, says Rorty, is anyone who seeks personal authenticity and has the wherewithal to consume cultural artifacts to try and get there. (I would add that the intellectual feels the right to […]
So today I find out that it didn’t matter that I skipped most of my college Spanish classes: Dear Mr. Hunter: Excuse my precarious English. (I read it better than write). I read your book review of Slavoj ZizekĀ“s book “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?” appeared in Ethics News & Views. I would like to translate […]
Via the Epistemopolitan, Sinfest the comic strip. Theodicy. Post-Nietzsche apologetics. Original Sin. Good versus evil. Divine taunting. Theodicy, redux. Divine compassion. Jesus Christ Superhero. Atheism. Proselytism. Repentence. Eschatology. Enjoy.
Blogging has been light lately. The wife and I are trying to buy our first house, I’ve been getting things ready for the start of classes at work, and I’ve been helping with the youth group and the pledge drive at church. I’ll still be blogging, but I can’t promise much more than a trickle […]
Further proof that liberals might have to learn to use the words “un-American,” “unpatriotic,” and “traitor” for their own purposes.
O Wisdom beyond knowledge, who sends rain to fall on both the just and the unjust: Resolve in my mind compassion for my enemies, that I may give to those who rob me and feed those who make me hungry. Amen.