Freedom’s political justification —Amash example

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A partial truth, but not relevant to justifying a free society politically. Why not? A free society respects and protects freedom in many domains: religious liberty, artistic freedom, romantic liberty, economic freedom, and so on.Take the first—religious liberty—as working example, and apply JA’s criteria, saying: “You should have religious freedom because you are fallible, inconsistent, […]

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David Kelley’s *The Evidence of the Senses*

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2026 is the 40th anniversary of this important publication on the foundations of epistemology. “This book is a highly original defense of realism. David Kelley argues that perception is the discrimination of objects as entities, that the awareness of these objects is direct, and that perception is a reliable foundation for empirical knowledge. Kelley’s argument

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Newberry’s review of Feldman sculpture *The Future in Our Hands*

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Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands By Michael Newberry Stuart Mark Feldman’s sculpture group, The Future in Our Hands (1992, Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is four life-size bronze statues placed around a large outdoor fountain. There are two males and two females, life-sized, each playing with a child. (To my knowledge, this is the

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Martin Luther on dancing and the steps one takes toward Hell

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I’m crossing Martin off my next party-invitation list. “As many paces as the man takes in his dance, so many steps he takes toward Hell.” Quoted here. I like to contrast Luther with John Locke who, in his Some Thoughts concerning Education, mentions dancing first as an essential element of a child’s formal instruction. Related:

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