I mentioned in my previous post that if you want to train the mind you need to give it ideas to contemplate. I’ve been contemplating for about 15 years what might be the most powerful ideas to contemplate, and here’s a list of them. Happily, they come in triumvirates.
Truth, goodness, and beauty
Wisdom, virtue, and personhood
Freedom, justice, [...]
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I need to hear more details, but this seems like an important response to the health care plan. The thing we can’t forget is that once this program is put in place, it can’t be undone. The people who support this plan know that.
This has almost nothing to do with improving our health and almost everything [...]
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During the last session at the conference I tried to weave things together into a practical structure that people could take home and think about and implement. Maybe the most important idea in the whole conference for me was the contrast between propriety and pragmatism, justice and utility, nature and abstract object.
Modernist thought found its [...]
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