(Here’s another oldie from The Gadfly’s Buzz, originally posted 04/13/2005. This post was selected for the April 2005 Philosophy Carnival, a monthly roundup of interesting writing on philosophical topics from around the Web.)
Victor Reppert has a post about the Cartesian cogito which seemed relevant to the discussion of anatta and meditative experience that I’ve […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Descartes and the Buddha
Noted & Quoted
This succint statement of evident truth appeared in Sunday’s New York Times:
In his preface to ”The Future of Media” (a collection of articles edited by Robert W. McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott), Bill Moyers writes that ”democracy can’t exist without an informed public.” If this is true, the United States is not a democracy […]
Miscarriage of Justice
Ordinarily I’m not real big on Causes. But Bernard Baran has spent his entire adult life incarcerated for crimes that never took place, a victim of prejudice and greed on the part of his accusers and professional ambition on the part of venal prosecutors. A motion for a new trial is […]
What is mind? No matter.
Kevin Kim, in his comment to my previous post, asks for “my take on the mind/body problem.” Well, Kev, that’s a bit like asking for my take on the meaning of life, the history of civilization, the possibility of a unified field theory, and what women really want. In other words, it’d take […]
Still a goodie, from 02/09/2005
Briefly noted: This essay by Gertrude Himmelfarb on Lionel Trilling contains a useful implicit definition:
He was not a “public intellectual” in our present sense, commenting on whatever made the headlines.
Another oldie
Here’s another old post that someone’s come looking for recently: a poem by Harvey Hix. As I said when I originally posted it,
Googling his name will produce some biographical data and some prose writings, but this will be the first online poem, so far as I can tell. It’s from his first […]
From the vaults
Domain forwarding from my old blog, The Gadfly’s Buzz, is now in operation, which means that a good proportion of the people who arrive at this site are following a link that originally directed them there. Moreover, the several nifty stats applications on that Austin Web Development supplies allow me to find out what […]
The American Declaration of Independence
When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence Day, or the Fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defence against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the […]
