June 2011
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The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling… At the breaking point, a culture can no longer maintain itself as an established span of moral demands. Its jurisdiction contracts; it demands less, permits more. Bread and circuses become confused with right and duty. Spectacle
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next (Abraham Lincon). Teză: Pentru că ideologiile care odinioară erau rebele au devenit astăzi oficiale, cu putere legislativă și pentru că marea cultură a ultimelor secole a germinat pe trupul secat și ipocrit al valorilor puritane/tradiționale, poate că
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Atheism is untenable unless it is the case that there is no plausible notion of God worthy of the name (J. Angelo Corlett, 88). I’ve found J. Angelo Corlett’s book The Errors of Atheism (Continuum, 2010) as an agnostic’s statement on the current state of the debate about God’s existence, being a pertinent critique of
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