I was watching David Harvey's excellent lecture series on reading Marx's Das Kapital, and in the introduction, he talks about how he's done this class for many many years now, and in all sorts of departments, even those you wouldn't expect to see reading economic and social philosophy. And, he notes, each year he learns something [...]
Jordan Bernt Peterson was born in 1962, holds a B.A. in political science, and a PhD in psychology. He teaches at the University of Toronto. Like a lot of smart people, he was a very successful and interesting figure in his own field, who then decided to branch out and start bloviating about other fields [...]
Here is a paragraph from near the beginning of De la Grammatologie, translated by Google: Whatever one thinks under this heading, the problem of language has probably never been a problem among others. But never as much as today has he invaded as such the world horizon of the most diverse researches and discourses the most [...]
Let's check with some ethical systems to see how this plays out... Aristotle: It is a realization of a person's true nature to punch Nazis, and punching them brings happiness and contentment. This is the right thing to do, at the right time, to the right person, to the proper extent, in the correct fashion, [...]
Literal Machines 