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    Hobbes on morality and the modern science of motion -- Freedom as the realization of desire -- Leviathan : the making of a mortal God -- John Locke : underlaborer of the new sciences -- Locke on the freedom of the human spirit -- From Berkeley to Hume : the radicalization of empiricism -- Hume's science of the dynamics of the passions -- Adam Smith deciphers the invisible hand of the market -- Contradictions of economic life -- I think : Descartes' foundation of modern science -- God and the go…Read more
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    In Lucas's universe, the Jedi have a special capacity to connect with the Force. There is nothing more powerful in human psychology than the power of attraction in the love of one person for another. The power of passionate love between persons – sexual‐love or love of the body – is experience of the Force. The Jedi also teach their trainees to have a detached, compassionate love for others that is sometimes called “Platonic love.” Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader seems to contradict a p…Read more
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    They're Not Just Goddamn Trees
    In George A. Dunn (ed.), Avatar and Philosophy, Wiley. 2014.
    The title of the film Avatar specifically refers to the extension of the consciousness or spirit of a human individual into the body of an artificially created human–Na'vi hybrid. In his Philosophy of Nature, Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel argues that Nature is the embodiment – or, as we might say, the “avatar” – of what he calls the Absolute Spirit or God. Scientists, with their mechanistic models of nature, are essentially in league with the practical exploitation of the Earth. Their arid abstraction…Read more
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    Beyond Good and Evil Places
    In Kimberly S. Engels (ed.), The Good Place and Philosophy, Wiley. 2020.
    In Nietzsche's philosophical novel, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the central character is the prophet Zarathustra. Zarathustra is the prophet of the yearning for going beyond our merely human selves to which our current pop culture, with its X‐Men and Marvel superheroes, appeals. The Good Place is an important component of this culture. Its main moral message is that human beings should aspire to go beyond themselves. Zarathustra proposes a theory of human history that includes a stage of animal‐like…Read more
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    Originalism, Moralism and the Public Opinion State of Mitchell Franklin
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (2). 1997.
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    Heidegger's theory of metaphysics and dialectics
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 35 (3): 363-375. 1975.
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    Nous publions ci-desssous deux extraits d'une étude sur la métaphysique de la mort, due à un jeune chercheur américain, M. James Lawler, et traduite de l'anglais par Mme Ch. Devivaise. Même si le nom de Maurice Blondel n'est pas cité, on reconnaîtra l'inspiration blondélienne de ces pages, et on rappellera que M. Blondel a consacré à la « métaphysique de la mort » les pages 176 à 187 du tome II de La Pensée. We publish here two fragments of a study about Metaphysics of Death, written by a young …Read more
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    The contemporary debate between religion and science has its roots in seventeenth century debates on the implications of the new sciences. While Hobbes’ materialism rests on the implications of the new physics, Descartes’ spiritualism focuses on the radically new character of scientific thinking itself. Two opposed conceptions of God, externalist and internalist, correspond to these trends. Kant reconciles Descartes focus on free subjectivity with materialist determinism by regarding the latter …Read more
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    Contemporary Significance of an Article by Mitchell Franklin on Two Earlier Wars on Terror
    with Gene Grabiner
    Nature, Society, and Thought 16 (4): 389-404. 2003.