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    <title>Apropos Of Speech</title>
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    <description>How lines do point all straight ahead, and make so certain one is good. But exist all lines as such, or paint we beastly plans with blood?</description>
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      <title>Beautiful People</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:21:34 EDT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[ Got to go, got to get get some new stuff, new stuff to go beside the other things! Got to buy some things, some new, new things to talk about. Otherwise what will I say to you! Got to do something big, doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's really big, and bigger than what you talk about!  ]]></description>
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      <title>The Biology of Politics</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:30:08 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ What is the relationship between biology and politics? This question emerged even before biology and politics were well-defined fields, as political leaders and natural philosophers ruminated on the nature of knowledge, and the connection between human society and the universe. The question came into sharper relief during the nineteenth-century, and in particular after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859. Darwin's theory provoked reactions and developments in a number of fields far removed from biology, and in connection ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Rage of Caliban</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:10:22 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ What force the words of Virgee Queens with tribute gone, and King withdrawn? Still, petty lords aim trash at Gods and ply the beast with loathsome dues. Then filled with spite, all turn and bite. Theirs not to love, but feast and drudge.  ]]></description>
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      <title>The Rise and Fall of Certainty</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:32:20 EST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ What are the foundations of mathematics? Early answers to this question were closely related to geometry, and historically, the philosophy of mathematics and the mathematics of geometry maintained a unique connection for more than two thousand years. During this period absolute certainty reigned, and here we shall survey major developments in the evolution of geometry and metamathematics in relation to certitude. We will begin with the origins of the belief in mathematical certainty in Classical Greece, then survey its connection to science through ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Facebook and Dasein</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:22:38 EST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ What is Facebook, and what are its implications for the authenticity of Dasein? Here, Facebook itself replies, declaring; "Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life," in pursuit of its "mission ... to give people the power to ... make the world more open and connected." (Hereafter, Facebook is referenced as FB.) Thus FB describes its relation to Dasein using the characteristics: "helps"; "connect"; "share"; "open"; and "power." Structurally speaking therefore, FB believes it "helps" facilitate "open" relationships between ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Basic Implications of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems for Knowledge of the Mind</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:01:33 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ As violins wax maudlin, viewers of the BBC documentary Dangerous Knowledge are introduced to "a small group of ... brilliant minds," who in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries; "unraveled our old, cozy certainties about math and the universe." These brilliant minds we are told, unraveled certainties that were so unassailable and beguiling that; "once they had looked at these problems, they could not look away, and pursued the questions to the brink of insanity, and then over it to madness and suicide." Here, and through the rest of documentary, ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Lincoln-Types and The Rest of Us</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:05:11 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ In a recent article, Jim Sleeper rightly and righteously reminds his fellow Americans that while Obama is doing his thing; "it's up to the rest of us to find our civic-republican selves and start building a better politics with others who are doing that, too." This is the final sentence in Sleeper's article, and this is an interesting fact to note, because it's not the end of his argumentative direction. Sleeper is certainly on the right track to expounding a basic tenet of civic living, but he never reaches the necessary conclusion, which is: politics ... ]]></description>
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      <title>"Moral failures to the right, please."</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:15:40 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ "... but the Krell forgot one thing: monsters, John. Monsters from the id." -- Lt. "Doc" Ostrow "I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself." -- Herman Hesse qua Emil Sinclair One: I respect your human rights, but not your ideas. None may respect your ideas, none, and even less your actions; most especially your choices. Although, such an important distinction has but little chance of penetrating the psycho-material anxiety defended by the monsters of your id. Some jest to retrieve ... ]]></description>
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      <title>To Those Imperturbably Plagued</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 15:16:29 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Be it so, that the perpetually nettled effetist with historically unparalleled opportunities and corporeally uncommon prepossession beholds a deep, bona fide internal representation of those socially, personally, and psychologically compacted and bound by the imperturbably disentranced nettler's demands, or that said nettler's dander is distributed not across a Gaussian function whose normal distribution defines now the density of said effetist's impartial observations of externally occurrent unreliabilistic phenomena, but defines rather the sociologically ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Question Concerning Technocracy</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 01:13:48 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ For more than ten years, Albert Speer enjoyed unparalleled success working as a Nazi technocrat, ultimately enjoying a degree of political power second only to that of Adolf Hitler himself. Breaking with his bureaucratic success however, Speer claimed at the Nuremberg Trials that even before Germany had lost the war, his apolitical technocratic weltanschauung had been shattered, and that in 1944 he underwent a political awakening that led him to reject his technological achievements, so that he could focus on undermining Nazism. Because Speer's ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Markets and the Rise of Islam</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ "Allah has permitted trading" -- Qur'an, 2:275 "There is no sin on you if you seek the Bounty of your Lord" -- Qur'an, 2:198 Globally, modern economies are dominated by the concepts and realities of markets. Theoretically and practically, markets occupy a position of great respect, and therefore, in attempting to comprehend world politics, economics, or history, a student must ask: what is the history of markets? Modern scholarship reveals that any answer to this question must incorporate early Arabian and Islamic developments; however, despite ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Day Walker's Lament</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 17:11:37 EDT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[ The cold told a tale to the life-salubrious sleep; being overturned, subsided under the advance of the all-talking, all-wanting, all-taking, all-spiteful judges of hell. The self-imposed release of darkly spawned legions from wintry warm prime-time self-imposed unconsciousness. Now rushing forth into fields of highness and Rock. Aflame, creek and forest placed under their blazing glare. Did I walk in any wise toward you, or was I to look directly at you, intently, precisely away? Oh oh quite so how, my acts being perfect yours when not mine being ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Ah, how low I fall!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:33:34 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The relationship of querulousness to object systems being direct, the proportion of the former being therefore greater amidst fecund regalement. Having lived in decline if not quite fallen, I am relegated to suppositionally appreciate how such a hen read avid thoroughly "believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Absurd Dreams</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 12:42:35 EDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Well, you can throw that out. Why? Because it's useless. Why? Because you want to understand dreams. But that book is old, and we know a lot more than we used to. Is that how knowledge works? Etiology is important to doctoring, but history is useless to ideas? Well, you can burn that book. What did the Nazis do again? To this author's books? ... They had the right idea?  ]]></description>
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      <title>A Cloud of Witnesses</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:06:09 EDT</pubDate>
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      <category>violence</category>
      <description><![CDATA[ To help students of Christian history appreciate the subtlety and complexity of the subject, Joel F. Harrington subdivides the content of his 2001 anthology, A Cloud of Witnesses, chronologically and thematically. By organizing documents thematically, Harrington presents non-chronological document relationships that readers may not have considered; and, presented with these combinations, the reader may then ask: what connects these documents, and why have they been grouped under this theme? Here we shall discuss the documents collected under the ... ]]></description>
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