A failed philosophical mission: Plato urged Dionysius I to abandon wine and orgies. In response, the tyrant sold Plato into slavery Slavs were the first slaves
Was I wrong to fall for a cheating cat? BBC
Postmodernism, social justice, conspiracy theories and Jungian archetypes
Why do conspiracy theories thrive? Why has postmodern theory subtly permeated our thought in such a way that we no longer recognise it because it has become part of the fabric of our culture? Part of the answer may lie in Carl Jung’s theory of archetypes. Continue reading
Michigan man spends 37 years in prison, freed after witness says she lied.
Designer Pierre Cardin, 98
He clothed the famous — artists, political luminaries, tastemakers and members of the haute bourgeoisie — but he was also a merchant to the masses with an international brand, his name affixed to an outpouring of products, none too exalted or too humble to escape his avid eye. – The New York Times
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders
Boris Johnson’s father seeks French citizenship as Brexit ends free movement France24
A Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017 — and more are coming NY Post. ‘Oumuamua, checking the quarantine.
How Fashion Appropriated The Styles Of Enslaved People
The experiences of enslaved people were not always deemed important enough to record for posterity, and the glimpses that have been preserved are often distorted by interventions of enslavers. We are left to wonder: Who are they? What were their names? What were their favorite colors? Why did they choose to be photographed on these particular occasions? Why did they style themselves in these ways? – Guernica
SALENA ZITO: Our hopes for 2021 won’t be fulfilled by a politician, but by us.
KURT SCHLICHTER: My Prediction for 2021 Is Pain.
A series of conversations aimed at thinking through the technology, philosophy, morality, and politics of the Black Mirror series — the new Black Mirror Reflections podcast, hosted by Leigh m. Johnson (CBU)
“I had an interview… for a bioethics position during which the interviewers spent 35 minutes telling me how much their department valued diversity. When I… shared with them that I was invisibly disabled, they looked at me like I had three heads.” — an interview with Laura Cupples (Gonzaga)
New symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy — at the Brains Blog
The first of a new occasional series of philosophy podcast documentaries for “Ideas” on CBC Radio — created by Aaron James Wendland (Massey), the first is on Leibniz, Voltaire, and the value of god in a time of crisis
“We can’t appeal to future generations’ rights against harm to explain why we must change course now. Yet appealing to duties of beneficence doesn’t do justice to the felt urgency of the issue” — Thomas Sinclair (Oxford) on the challenges of explaining why we should protect the environment
“The power of radical change in the lives of human beings” — Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) on change, epistemic limitations, and the death penalty
Should we be having more children — Ross Douthat makes the case, in an article touching on car seats, Parfit, overpopulation, climate, religion, and more
Science fiction and philosophy — a discussion with Clare Moriarty, Lewis Powell, James Burton, and Lisa Walters
Doom: the map and the chart — an assessment of major threats to humanity in an illustrated format, by Dominic Walliman
