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Fri 14 Mar 2008
Ethics: The Three Systems
1. The Ethics of Buddha and Jesus:
• All men are equally precious.
• Resists evil only by returning good.
• Identifies virtues with love.
• Inclines in politics toward unlimited Democracy.
2. The Ethics of Macchiavelli and Nietzsche:
• Accepts the inequality of men.
• Relishes the risk of combat and conquest and rule.
• Identifies virtue with power.
• Exalts a hereditary aristocracy.
3. The Ethics of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle:
• Only the informed and mature mind can judge, according to diverse circumstance, when love should rule, and when power.
• Identifies virtue with intelligence and knowledge.
• Advocates a varying mixture of aristocracy and democracy in government.
Reconciliation by Spinoza: Making Happiness the goal of conduct.
(Original source: Will Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy” extracted and compiled…
Mon 15 Dec 2003
For those who don’t remember Saturday Night Live of years ago, Al Franken was a writer on the show, and sometimes a performer. He had a quirky dead-pan, yet strutting, style. And this book follows in that tradition.
Using humor, Franken takes plenty of shots at the right-wing media; exposing the mistruths, half-truths, and outright lies that have been told for political gain. He also highlights how The Game is played - how an organization like Fox news can get away with nothing short of propaganda, while at the same time being able to accuse the “liberal” media of a bias. It’s fascinating stuff, and told with great wit.
And some of the ways that folks like Rush and Bill O’Rielly deliberately…
Sun 7 Dec 2003
Every great human being in history earned it. We can give it and we can receive it. Without it it’s hard to live. If you have enough of it you can change the world.
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Respect means:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
3. Willingness to show consideration or appreciation.
From Latin respectus, from past participle of respicere, to look back at, regard : re-, re- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European Roots.
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“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Respect a man, and he will do all the more.”
-John Wooden
“If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love…
Mon 1 Dec 2003
Dear Friends,
I’d like to tell you a little tale, a personal story of what it is like to fear losing your freedom of speech, how it feels to be drowned in a wave of patriotism which threatens with all its might to suffocate your ideas and stifle dissent.
For nearly four months, from September through December of last year, I did not know whether the book I had just written for HarperCollins — STUPID WHITE MEN — was ever going to be read by the American public. HarperCollins, one of the major publishing houses in the world, was trying to decide whether the words I had written were now “too offensive” to a nation which had suddenly fallen in love with…
Fri 14 Mar 2008
Ethics: The Three Systems
1. The Ethics of Buddha and Jesus:
• All men are equally precious.
• Resists evil only by returning good.
• Identifies virtues with love.
• Inclines in politics toward unlimited Democracy.
2. The Ethics of Macchiavelli and Nietzsche:
• Accepts the inequality of men.
• Relishes the risk of combat and conquest and rule.
• Identifies virtue with power.
• Exalts a hereditary aristocracy.
3. The Ethics of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle:
• Only the informed and mature mind can judge, according to diverse circumstance, when love should rule, and when power.
• Identifies virtue with intelligence and knowledge.
• Advocates a varying mixture of aristocracy and democracy in government.
Reconciliation by Spinoza: Making Happiness the goal of conduct.
(Original source: Will Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy” extracted and compiled…
Mon 15 Dec 2003
For those who don’t remember Saturday Night Live of years ago, Al Franken was a writer on the show, and sometimes a performer. He had a quirky dead-pan, yet strutting, style. And this book follows in that tradition.
Using humor, Franken takes plenty of shots at the right-wing media; exposing the mistruths, half-truths, and outright lies that have been told for political gain. He also highlights how The Game is played - how an organization like Fox news can get away with nothing short of propaganda, while at the same time being able to accuse the “liberal” media of a bias. It’s fascinating stuff, and told with great wit.
And some of the ways that folks like Rush and Bill O’Rielly deliberately…
Sun 7 Dec 2003
Every great human being in history earned it. We can give it and we can receive it. Without it it’s hard to live. If you have enough of it you can change the world.
_________________
Respect means:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
3. Willingness to show consideration or appreciation.
From Latin respectus, from past participle of respicere, to look back at, regard : re-, re- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European Roots.
__________________
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Respect a man, and he will do all the more.”
-John Wooden
“If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love…
Mon 1 Dec 2003
Dear Friends,
I’d like to tell you a little tale, a personal story of what it is like to fear losing your freedom of speech, how it feels to be drowned in a wave of patriotism which threatens with all its might to suffocate your ideas and stifle dissent.
For nearly four months, from September through December of last year, I did not know whether the book I had just written for HarperCollins — STUPID WHITE MEN — was ever going to be read by the American public. HarperCollins, one of the major publishing houses in the world, was trying to decide whether the words I had written were now “too offensive” to a nation which had suddenly fallen in love with…