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Animal rights or rights of animals? (Sept/Oct LD)
Having previously complained about the lack of moral content in past resolutions, I'm pleased to see the upcoming resolution for LD debate -- "Resolved: Justice requires the recognition of animal rights" is so straightforwardly about ethical concerns. For people writing cases, if you haven't yet taken a look at the Stanford Encyclopedia of ( Read more... ) -
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Philosophy of language paper. Don't usually post school work here, but I'm a little proud of this one I think.
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A. J. Ayer offers a simple, intuitively appealing account, of how sentences carry meaning: they are tautologies and express logical truths, or they are empirically verifiable and express a possible configuration of the ( Read more... ) -
Great Art
Often I'll start writing a post about newspaper articles I think poorly represent their topic, or blog posts I find irritating, or what have you. Few of these make it to completion. This is largely because I'm rarely motivated to respond to what I read until I feel that saying "Oh, fuck you" would be more time and regard than the piece deserves, ( Read more... ) -
Question on Civil Liberties: Harry Potter and the Hobbesean Sovereign
From the comments on the last Harry Potter post:
elanaranne:I was actually looking up the Wizengamot today and both the Lexicon and the wikia agree that it's rare for the accused to have the equivalent of our lawyers. It can happen, but it's only an option. Despite this making me go o______o at Hogwarts' legal system, it might shed some light on the lack of ( Read more... ) -
Proposal: An index of ...I'm not sure what this measures.
Possibly a cool idea, possibly very boring. Your mileage may vary.
It all started when I observed that i) the frequency of those "iPod shuffle fic anthologies" seems tightly correlated with the cheerfulness of the fandom as a whole (e.g. despite having roughly comparably-sized samples on ff.net, the Zelda fandom has far fewer than the pokemon ( Read more... ) -
Some incoherent mumbling about LoZ: Twilight Princess
This is all elanaranne's fault. I deny any responsibility for my getting sucked back into Legend of Zelda fandom when I have a ton of work to do. Nope. I'm not choosing to procrastinate, it is being forced upon me. Curse you, Naranne, destroyer of productivity.
(I'm pretty sure it's abundantly clear already, but just to be on the safe side: I'm only ( Read more... ) -
A rant about Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Resolved: The United States is justified in using private military firms abroad to pursue its military objectives.
Seriously, NFLfolk? Seriously, seriously ( Read more... ) -
Groundwork for the Long Boring Aesthetics Entry
Conveniently posted a whole week after the long boring aesthetics entry.Except, of course, when a person reads what I do share they don't have any knowledge of what went into its creation. S/he can't see where I stopped and revised and revised and revised until a phrase was -- at last! -- to my liking, s/he (probably) can't guess at my particular ( Read more... ) -
Aesthetics. Or flamebait. One of the two.
Specifically, some undeveloped and rambly thoughts about literature, aesthetics, and ideological messages.
A few years ago, as part of a sort of intro philosophy survey course I was required to write a short reading-response to an article by Marilyn French. 1 This article proposed a definition of what aesthetics would have to look like to be ( Read more... )