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David Talcott

@TalcottNYC

Philosophy Prof @NewSaintAndrews. I teach Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, and Human Sexuality. Plato Book: https://t.co/jiVToBpKjS

Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Nick Kapur@nick_kapur·
Powerful words from University of Pennsylvania students against their university's headlong rush to embrace of AI:
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It seemed to many in history, and increasingly seems to many today, that a failure to promote Christianity is more likely to tend toward the loss of the natural preconditions of peaceful Christian living. That is, what do we risk in Liberalism? I'm not familiar with the term "Pilgrim Principle" -- is this referring to the freedom they promoted, or the lack of freedom they promoted?
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Paul Nedelisky
Paul Nedelisky@PaulNedelisky·
@TalcottNYC The practical point is that if you value Christianity, then you should want a system that permits its free exercise. But if the system narrowly promotes a specific view, then it risks promoting something else and forbidding Christianity. That's the "Pilgrim Principle," istm.
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David Talcott@TalcottNYC·
The Rawslian idea that we ought not establish community rules in virtue of any particular normative conception of The Good requires a very particular normative conception of The Good.
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"To discourse of nature is made harder and more perilous by the summaries and systems of the schoolmen, who having reduced theology into regular order as well as they were able, and fashioned it into the shape of an art, ended in incorporating the contentious and thorny philosophy of Aristotle, more than was fit, with the body of religion." -- Francis Bacon
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But there aren't just abstract "principles of toleration." Lockean toleration, for instance, extended religious freedom to various protestants but not to atheists or Roman Catholics. American toleration at the federal level was broader, but many states had rules that atheists could not hold office, etc. The toleration was never intended to cover all views and was always mean to privilege Protestant Christianity, even while other views were tolerated. That it is impossible, in practice, to establish fixed boundaries to liberal toleration seems problematic. What are the value-neutral background rules? Do not kill? (what about the unborn or infirm?) Are dignity harms real harms? etc. I don't mind pragmatic re-negotiation, but even saying "we don't permit killing of anyone in our nation" involves a substantive commitment to a shared good.
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Paul Nedelisky
Paul Nedelisky@PaulNedelisky·
@TalcottNYC Yes, largely because the nation was monolithically Christian at that point. But if the principles of toleration are meant to protect religious freedom, then they would need to admit greater range of views than just species of Christianity as the popular views change.
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John R Lott Jr.
John R Lott Jr.@JohnRLottJr·
@BasedMikeLee @grok Can the SAVE Act be passed using reconciliation if it is set up to cut funding to states that don’t change their voting regulations?
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It’s hard to imagine how the SAVE America Act could be passed through reconciliation And by “hard” I mean “essentially impossible”
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Time for some bioethics. Next 7 weeks of class time right here.
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@PaulNedelisky Lockean Liberalism and the Liberalism of the founding aren’t the same as Rawlsian Liberalism. There was a much more substantive view of the good in those earlier views, enforced through both informal and formal mechanisms. Or do you think otherwise?
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Paul Nedelisky
Paul Nedelisky@PaulNedelisky·
@TalcottNYC Well, yes--it's called 'liberalism'. But the point is to permit a wide range of what amounts to religious conviction and practice within these limits. Remember the Pilgrims.
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Brent Kilman@Brent_Kilman·
When he gets to 100 arrests a WA District Judge will grant him a franchise ownership of a Learing Center.
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I’m a big fan of my Presbytery’s clerk. I don’t know if he’s the best clerk, but he is quite efficient, and snarky too.
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eburke@JamesWHankins1·
Nowadays, Hackett is one of the few houses left that make it possible to teach the history of philosophy at all in universities. The series of texts of ancient and imperial Chinese philosophy is a great contribution to inter-civilizational understanding.
Chaim Katz 📟@ChaimKatz7

@JamesWHankins1 Man, to me Hackett is synonymous with those thin, flimsy paperbacks. The pages, which would yellow over the years, felt like reclaimed newspaper.

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David Talcott@TalcottNYC·
Life is good every day, but some days you feel it more than others.
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@man_of_renown But nobody had to listen to him…who decided to start teaching it in the schools over the next few decades…
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David Talcott@TalcottNYC·
Education started going downhill in the 60s…The 1660s, that is. This is my current opinion on 18th century philosophy….
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David Talcott@TalcottNYC·
@HorcherF I don’t know the period well enough to really have an informed opinion, but adopting the theory of ideas and a Cartesian view of matter both seem to cause major trouble
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Kyle David Bennett
Kyle David Bennett@kdavidbennett·
My 8yo is more hardcore than Diogenes of Sinope.
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Kyle David Bennett@kdavidbennett·
Boy fell asleep in a cardboard box on a Friyay night.
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