- Phil Maymin discusses my article “Austro-Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism.”
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“If you are about to fall on top of me from a great height, for example, and my shooting you as you fall will cause you to fall on me dead instead of falling on me alive but will not save me from being fallen on, I have no grounds for shooting you.”
Is it evil of me to get a big gut laugh out of this example? How do you come up with this???
Incidentally, we already use a base-12 (as well as the even more efficient base-60) system on our clocks.
Methinks thou makest small contributions to evil by publishing your paper in Microsoft (“Evil Empire”) Word format (which my Linux browser refuses to open automatically).
Obama as a virtuous stoic? What the fuck?
How did Maymin jump from your discussion of the libertarian aspects of early Confucians (while fully qualifying this with reference to their statism) to “I think both views are wrong. Neither the Taoists nor the Confucians were libertarians”? Did you ever claim they were?
were you born or raised in the U.K
No, but I grew up on British children’s books, which may be why British spellings have always seemed more natural to me. (I’m not consistent, though; I don’t write ‘tyre’ or ‘connexion’ — perhaps because I learned about those spellings only later.) But both ways count as correct English, so I can pick whichever I prefer with a clean conscience.
Until my teens, I also was exposed only to British spelling (and “zed” rather than “zee”) but I don’t recall seeing the “-ise” spellings (but I did use “colour”). And although I learned French, the “-ize” endings always seemed more natural since Spanish was my first language. Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, the OED prefers the latter particularly for words of Greek origin.
I thought both of the linked articles were pretty horrible. I barely finished either. Maybe I’m just spoiled from reading Roderick’s stuff.
How did Maymin come to believe that the TaNaKh is included in the Qur’an?
It seems like neither author got what you were going for, but bad publicity is (almost always) better than no publicity.
There’s a sequel:
http://www.examiner.com/x-8993-Houston-Humanist-Examiner~y2009m6d14-More-on-intentions-friendships–compassion-reader-feedback
Occupational hazard of being a philosopher; we’ve been trading in kooky exampples for the last 2500 years.
If thou searchest for the title on Google, thou wilt be able to read it in HTML.
Maybe when he said he wanted a judge with “empathy,” he really meant “apathy” (in the original sense of being free from all passions).
Did you ever claim they were?
Only in invisible ink in the margin. But damn! I didn’t expect him to have UV goggles.
I was able to save the linked document) and read it using AbiWord. What I found interesting is that the spell checker (set for en_US), aside from flagging your Briticized words (I still don’t understand why you insist in spelling “minimize” as “minimise”; were you born or raised in the U.K?), marked “statist” (as well as coherentist and deontic) as possibly misspelled or unknown.