Gentile Christian in a nutshell
Another attempt to express the concept of the Gentile Christian with precision and brevity. One of these days I hope to make it even shorter.
Continue Reading Add comment April 5th, 2010
Draft to the President on the health mandate
Working up a letter to the President on how to get the backing of the conservatives with regard to the mandate to pre-paid health care, where you can take it or leave it, but where it pays healthwise to take it. The individual can be ok if he wants to, and the nation will be ok, or at least far better off.
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Kant and a duty to be healthy
Musing about the basis for mandating health insurance.
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Mandated Health Insurance
Offering a justification of the insurance mandate as duty regarding the common defense against foreign enemies. Not edited.
Continue Reading Add comment April 2nd, 2010
A direction for the Christians
The goal of the Christian Church is a communism based on vows like those of the vows of a marriage, and where the only rule is the expedient expression of universal love, where no one can be left out. A muse.
Continue Reading Add comment March 29th, 2010
More on the appearance and the thing on its own
Trying to clairify the distinction and relationship between the apperances/specters of the brainarium and the thing-on-its-own, and how the latter is a production of human understanding for the sake of subjugating the specters to laws of nature. Unedited.
Continue Reading Add comment March 28th, 2010
Kant’s use of “Thing on its own” (das Ding as sich)
Lecture idea and trial of what needs to be understood of our knowledge and its limits before we take the first steps into a metaphysics. unedited.
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Lecture on the Aesthetic and the Analytic
Wordy sketch of a lecture on the differentiation of Kant’s three “things”: the appearance, the object of experience, and the thing on its own.
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Health care and national defense
An attempt to justify mandatory insurance as an obligation of the citizen. It’s part of the American “deal” in our common endeavor for liberty.
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Draft of first part of Kant in a Nutshell
very brief look at Kant’s thinking in Pure Reason from space and time to the object of experience.
Continue Reading Add comment March 21st, 2010