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House Of Cards Becomes House Of Cardinals
This is a pretty amusing parody of Kevin Spacey’s Machiavellian character in House of Cards.
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What’s Coming (A Prediction)
A century from now, were you and I to see it, I think we would exclaim, like Miranda in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, “O brave new world that has such men in it!” And I worry that those men will not be religious … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Darwin, eugenics, evolution, humanism, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, science fiction
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Atheism’s Real Problem Going Forward: Universal Humanism vs. Johann Gottfried Herder, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that we evolved from social primates, and not, say, loner sharks, is sufficient to account for human moral impulses. Aristotle famously defined us as the political (or social) animal. But being a tribal species in which demonized out-groups are … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, history, humanism, Johann Gottfried Herder, Machiavelli, moloch, Nietzsche, Richard Dawkins, the enlighenment, the future, Thomas Jefferson
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Is the Drudge Report Jeffersonian Liberal or Machiavellian Illiberal?
Andrew Sullivan today concisely lays out the difference between a liberal discourse and an illiberal one: [Y]ou help me – through error and insight – to get closer to the truth sooner than if I were trying to understand the … Continue reading
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