Mr. Morgenthau's positive proposals as to how social problems ought to be approached exhibit an irresponsible romanticism. He rejects "scientism" because its universalist conception of social laws is allegedly unhistorical--though alre...
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[Unlike most nearly all other Digressions, this essay was initially solicited and so lacks attention to my own participation and rewards in what I describe.--ES]
Professional philosophy in the Anglophone world, and those areas that take...
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To lock yourself up in an ivory tower is impossible and undesirable. To yield subjectively, not merely to a party machine, but even to a group ideology, is to destroy yourself as a writer. We feel this dilemma to be a painful one, beca...
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Comment by Leigh M. Johnson on “On Philosophical Integrity; Scruton, Pogge, and The Evaluation of the Quality of The Arguments”
Posted by: Leigh M. Johnson | 06/11/2016 at 09:42 PM