Good politicians exist; they’re just extremely rare; so if you find one, treasure him (or her). Politics, after all, is one area, though of course not the only one, where ideas have consequences.
Freedom of the will means that we could do other than what we do do; determinism means that perhaps we wouldn’t. These two statements are not incompatible.
Can you imagine me saying something like “Abstract objects exist: trust the philosophy!” What kind of nonsense is this, “trust the science,” being used by ignoramuses to score political points? As I have pointed out, Read more…
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