Archive for December 25th, 2008
Do Duties Remove Freedom?
Cohen denies this but in vain. He makes two mistakes. First, he illegitimately cleaves legal duties from moral duties, saying that violence with which only the former are enforced does diminish individual freedom, while milder forms of enforcement of non-legal moral duties do not. But the division in this case is arbitrary. Whether you are [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2008 under Philosophy, Political.
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Four Reasons for Inequality
Connected, as you might expect, to the four temperaments, etc. 1. Due to different outcomes of human actions, viz. some actions will be successful, and others will fail, and those who succeed will have more enjoyment than the losers. Note the irony here: Cohen is concerned with relational properties of human beings, namely that no [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2008 under Philosophy, Political.
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Merry Christmas
God is normally uninterested in you. But it is within your power to make Him interested in you, such that He considers you a god in His own likeness, an equal to Himself, His child with whom He is well pleased; and speaks to you face to face as with a friend. But for this [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2008 under Religion.
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