Like a lot of people, I bookmark a lot of sites when I’m browsing the Net, intending to go back to them for some purpose or other which I soon forget. Also like a lot of people, I’m not very good about organizing my bookmarks into folders, so new ones tend to just get added at the end of the queue. The consequence is a dropdown list of bookmarks that eventually gets to be longer than the height of my screen, so the most recently added ones trail off out of sight. The solution: periodically prune back my bookmarks list. Which is what I’ve done this evening. So that they aren’t lost forever, I’m posting them here, in public, just so I know I can access them again, and on the off chance that they might prove of some interest to someone visiting this site. Think of this as a post-housecleaning garage sale, towards the end of the day, when they’re giving away everything for free.
First, a couple of philosophy papers that I originally linked to on the Web so I could throw out the hard copies. Both of these are standards in the philosophy-teaching biz. Here’s John Noonan’s “An Almost Absolute Value in History,” a classic statement of an antiabortion position. And here’s Tom Regan’s “The Case for Animal Rights,” a shorter version of the argument found in the book of the same name.
Next, here’s Vernon Parrington’s “Henry Thoreau: Transcendental Economist“, a chapter from his book Main Currents in American Thought.
Here are Luther’s 95 Theses.
Here’s an entire textbook for an online philosophy course called The Examined Life.
Here’s an early account of India written by Megasthenes, the Greek historian.
Here’s the Project Gutenberg page with links to several versions of Kant’s Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, one of the great works of moral philosophy. (Hint for seeming better edgikated than you is: always refer to this book as “the Grundlegung“; that’s the first word of the title in German.)
For some reason, I had a bookmark to the Gray’s Anatomy page on The Deep Muscles of the Back. (Actually, this can be useful stuff to know if you have back trouble, as I do.)
Here’s an online biography of Paramartha, one of the seminal figures in the transmission of Buddhism from India to China.
This article from Alternet claims that the “oil-for-food” scandal was overhyped by U.S. conservatives.
This online book called Waking the Poet, by Gene Fowler, is a storehouse of valuable insights into the creative process.
Some students at my secondary alma mater have started the Henderson Project. (It was a high school when I went there, it’s a middle school now.) Good work, guys.
And now I can see my entire bookmarks list again.
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