RECOMMENDED READING I. -POSTING PHILOSOPHICALLYTwo - count'em two - themed recommended reading posts tonight !
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Networks of Ortega y Gasset" by
Dan of tdaxpDan is responding here to my earlier post on
the nature of the change from the worldview of the previous century."
A Hegelian View on Globalization" by
Federalist X at
Amendment NineHegel always enjoys a bit of a renaissance when the world seems in flux. Federalist X is responding to Dan on globalization and amidst charts of his own, invokes
John Robb and
Thomas P.M. Barnett.
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Against Equillibrium-Based Ethics" by
Matt at
Conjectures and Refutations.
Reminds me of the jeremiad that Ayn Rand once hurled against hypothetical dilemmas that life is not based on the ethics of emergencies. Matt has a completely different focus but one that is no less relevant to the puzzlers beloved by freshmen philosopy survey course professors.
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Confucian Cosmopolitanism" by
Dr. Sam Crane at
The Useless Tree.
Dr. Crane analyzes the " big splash"
NYT magazine article by Kwame Anthony Appiah and discusses the market, individualism and -like Matt - context, but from a Confucian perspective.
That's it - for philosophy.