The Joy of Curmudgeonry
Friday 31 August 2012
At an End
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But I may sometimes write here or there .
Saturday 25 August 2012
Thermippos — The Complete Dialogue
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The scene is the agora, outside the office of the magistrate. Socrates is on his way to answer charges of impiety. There he meets Thermip...
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Friday 29 April 2011
Against the Proud Paralytics
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“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being sho...
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Without Borders
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One sometimes hears the following enthymeme: most of nature does not have borders, therefore, mankind should not have borders . [1] The ent...
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Fewtril no.285
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Why shouldn’t novels have in them badly-drawn caricatures of real persons? The world is full of them.
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Fewtril no.284
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On the dusty and featureless plain of his soul, it is easy for the latter-day man to lose all sense of perspective and direction.
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Fewtril no.283
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In the fostering of culture and the forming of good taste and character, liberal democracy has been so great a failure that it is believed ...
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Sunday 20 March 2011
Operative Words
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Operation Odyssey Dawn: beginning in the middle of things; or the start of a ten-year quest, with the god of seas and earthquakes against i...
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Saturday 19 March 2011
Hie Thee to Hell
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It is a shame that the “international community” is too scattered and shadowy a thing to fall to quick and easy air-strikes.
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BGC
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“We cannot make the world sufficient, we can only kill the perception that the world is insufficient.” Bruce G. Charlton, “ Suffering in t...
Fewtril no.282
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Religion is the rule-governed search for that which one lacks. Reason, therefore, stands as the religion of the moderns.
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Fewtril no.281
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A feeling of moral superiority is much too great a pleasure for the morally wretched to forbear. What is this — a cynical word against moral...
Wednesday 16 February 2011
An Intolerable State of Affairs
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Her Majesty’s Government’s Chief Zombifier of Science, otherwise known as its Chief Scientific Adviser, speaks before a troop of “scientific...
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Fewtril no.280
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The more primitive, the more real — this is the principle of a reductionistic metaphysics which informs everything from art to science. Perh...
Fewtril no.279
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Logical positivism was more scorn than logical commitment. That might explain its lingering appeal despite its self-refutation.
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Fewtril no.278
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Whenever men of the West gather to ask why it has fallen, one is sure to get another glimpse of the answer.
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