Evolution may be considered as a fairly straightforward metaphysical theory with a long history which was not so much confirmed by the theory of natural selection as embarrassed by it. The difference between the two…
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Better Angels on Black Ships: Is There Evidence of Moral Progress?
Update Below: Pinker in 2000 Steven Pinker, language guru, descendant and somewhat apostate of Chomsky, has written a book about the “progress” of human morality measured via a reduction of wars and war casualties called…
Melancholia: A Lugubrious Apocalyptic
It is a most difficult thing (I confess) to be able to discern these causes whence they are, and in such variety to say what the beginning was. *** Primary causes are the heavens, planets,…