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“You Just Don’t Like It When the Left Makes Inroads” (opens the original)
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About once every few months, someone from the right wing of the Democratic Socialists of America or a progressive will bring out the same old tired chestnut that construes any criticism of tactical justifications or pointing out by game-theoretic logic, etc., as an attempt to whine about winning or “to make the perfect the enemy of the good.” What I find fascinating is that this logic has been a dominant defense among liberal centrists of the Clinton and Obama administrations as well. Most of th
How I Learned to Love Virtue Ethics (opens the original)
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Lately, I have been thinking about the ancients: Plato, Nagarjuna, Aristotle, Dharmakirti. After reading many ancient dialectical texts, I've come to think that much of what we call philosophy is almost certainly outside its original context for the dharmic thinkers listed above; it makes you reflect on what virtue means. Not just virtue ethics—but virtue as mimesis about traits one wishes to cultivate as strengths. When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, like a lot of half-educated aspiring
Writing When All Is Fire (opens the original)
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“To be a philosopher you need only three things. First, infinite intellectual eros: endless curiosity about everything. Second, the ability to pay attention: to be rapt by what is in front of you without seizing it yourself, the care of concentration—in the way you might look closely, without touching, at the green lacewing fly, overwintering silently on the kitchen wall. Third, acceptance of pathlessness (aporia): that there may be no solutions to questions, only the clarification of their stat
Varn Vlog Fall-Winter Seminars (opens the original)
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I am planning another online seminar series, streamlined and more focused in scope than my previous offerings which was an intensive piloted to my patreon this summer. Based on prior feedback from that pilot that past classes were too broad with heavy reading loads, this course is designed around three core texts supplemented by key articles, videos, and contextual material:Joseph Tainter – The Collapse of Complex SocietiesEric Cline – 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization CollapsedEric Cline – <
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