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Scholastic Achievement Test

Feb 04

By Roderick

More juvenilia: Whether What Is Transcendent Is Dependent (unsuccessful parody of medieval philosophy, age 19). Adam Smith says somewhere that a sculpture of an animal is more impressive than a sculpture of a chair, because a sculpture of a chair isn’t sufficiently different from an actual chair; a similar criticism applies here.

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 19

Feb 04

By Roderick

I have a new post up at BHL: Eudaimonist Libertarianism. Not too hot, not too cold – like lukewarm porridge, it’s just right!

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Armed With Ajax!

Jan 29

By Roderick

More juvenilia: an essay on Sophocles’ Ajax, from senior year of college.

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The Final Encyclopedia

Oct 10

By Roderick

Today I learned (from an Egyptian Students’ Association poster – apparently verified here) that the Library of Alexandria (the current one, obviously) houses the sole backup copy of the Internet Archive. Why yes, said the first little pig, I’m going to rebuild my house, and I’m using all straw again.

Tagged Antiquity, Online Texts

Of Interest to the Stronger

Of Interest to the Stronger

Oct 10

By Roderick

I finally paid out the drakhmas to get the proceedings (both print and electronic, so over $100 total) of the Athens conference I went to in 2008. Here’s my contribution: “Thrasymachus and the Relational Conception of Authority” (in Patricia Hanna, ed., An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, vol. 3 (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, [...]

Tagged Antiquity, Ethics, Left-Libertarian | 2 Responses

Part of an Original Crowd

Aug 26

By Roderick

Sheldon has a nice post on why proper individualism is not atomistic – wherein he cites Aristotle, Spencer, and … me! In related news, I’ve argued elsewhere that it is the least atomistic forms of individualism that have the strongest claim to be called radical individualism.

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