Philosophy Magazine

Paperblog Editor's Pick

• China’s Religion Memo

  

  China’s ruling Central Committee does not often issue written “notices” or directives. When it does, people pay attention. Because such notices emanate from on... Read more

  The 20 December 2012 by   Cris
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• The Narcissism of Privilege: The Left Needs to Be More Not Less Aware of It

  

  “…let’s put aside our differences and start fighting back” says Tom Midlane in a recent New Statesman piece on privilege checking. Or as he so eruditely puts it... Read more

  The 17 December 2012 by   Weekwoman
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• New Metaphors for the Social

  

  The social world is not like the natural world. Nature is composed of things, forces, and geometries that have strong determining regularities whose interaction... Read more

  The 16 December 2012 by   Dlittle30
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• Historians of Sociology and Classical Social Theory

  

  Several readers of the recent post on Raymond Aron asked about other surveys of the history of sociology that are sometimes considered helpful. So I've pulled... Read more

  The 13 December 2012 by   Dlittle30
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• Animism as Weltanschauung

  

  While rummaging around the anthropology antique closet, I came across a 1915 article by Alexander Goldenweiser. As one of Franz Boas’ students, he shouldn’t hav... Read more

  The 11 December 2012 by   Cris
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• An Inspiring Teenager (and an Idea for the Christmas Holidays?)

  My sister sent me the link of the story of this amazing boy Kelvin from Sierra Leone. He lives in a remote village with hardly any electricity. Kelvins tries... Read more

  The 09 December 2012 by   Thewritefuture
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• The Garden of Earthly Delights

  "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven"I saw this picture in the "flesh" a few months ago in the... Read more

  The 09 December 2012 by   Tantrawave
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• A Black Sheep in a Town of Gold

  

  The opening credits to “Weeds” is my worst nightmare. All the tiny little boxes for homes…perfectly cut lawns synchronized sprinklers. That hell is my life. Read more

  The 06 December 2012 by   Thebusinessgypsy
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• Ethnofilm: Lakota Dancers

  

  This is a classic and rare 1894 film clip of Lakota dancers performing the Ghost Dance and Buffalo Dance. It was shot (a mere 4 years after the massacre at... Read more

  The 04 December 2012 by   Cris
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• Waldorf Spiritualism & Literate Minds

  

  Over at The Atlantic, Emily Chertoff asks whether the Waldorf schools are a “cult.” This kind of question immediately suggests an orthodoxy outside of which... Read more

  The 01 December 2012 by   Cris
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