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Friday, November 16, 2018

Unjust Justice, Irrational Rationalism, and Backward Evolution

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Before the fire chased us out of here, we were discussing Hayek and limits of reason. I want to finish that line of thought before moving o...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Outer Fire and Inner Light

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Well, I'm back in the saddle. Meaning the house. It's still here, although I'm not sure I am, at least not totally. Hard to be...
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Thursday, November 08, 2018

Closed Open Minds and Open Closed Minds

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I was flipping through a book by Josef Pieper , trying to decide if I need to replace my worn-out and marked-up copy, and -- of course -- ra...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Liberal Limits on the Limitless Reason of the Left

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"Liberalism and democracy, although compatible, are not the same. The first is concerned with the extent of governmental power, the sec...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Centralized Stupidity, AKA the State

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Four or five invulnerable philosophical propositions allow us to make fun of the rest. --Dávila Hayek begins an essay called Principles an...
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Monday, November 05, 2018

There's Nothing Like a Principle

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As you might have noticed from the sidebar, I've been delving into a lot of Hayek lately. I'd read his more popular broadsides such...
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Friday, November 02, 2018

Time Has Come Today

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How this post came to be: I was searching the blog for something having to do with time, and so many interesting things popped up that I dec...
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Thursday, November 01, 2018

Change and Progress, Circle and Line

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Yesterday it occurred to me that if there is no freedom, then time is reduced to a kind of space. It is completely solid, as it were, with n...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Nothing and its Consequences

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Still thinking about truth, freedom, and creation. These must be ultimate categories, and as we've said many times -- or suspected many ...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Freedom and Creation, Truth and Unfathomability

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I'd like to get back to the subject of freedom. Again, we're trying to approach it from different angles, from the economic, politic...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Patterns of Tyranny, Part 1: Trump and Hitler

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I have the title. And I have the book: The Infernal Library .  Will it result in a serviceable post?  It depends upon whether there is ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

President Trump is Doing the Truth

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Why undergo the aesthetic torture of immersing oneself in the literary works of the world's worst tyrants? Well, it reminds me of the o...
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