Allan Bloom wrote in 1987: Freedom of thought and freedom of speech were proposed in theory, and in the practise of serious political reformers, in order to encourage the still voice of reason in a world that had always been dominated by fanaticisms and interests. How the freedom of thought and speech came to mean [...]
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It’s a common position of moderates that you can’t define what God is (e.g. Karen Armstrong near 17:10 in this interview). It seems plausible and consistent for a non-believer to say the gods are undefinable or ill-defined, or to define gods that they don’t believe in. But I can think of at least three problems [...]
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The attendants of ‘cafés philo’ in Paris – I can only assume – offer a representative sample of how people think, at least there. I can’t help noticing some disturbingly popular ‘memes’ (I don’t like the word but admit it is useful, especially the connotation that it refers to ideas whose value lies in their [...]
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