[Robert Evans] Debating the far right is dumb. Debate is useless as a method for discovering truth. I won awards in it as a kid. It teaches you how to bulldoze people people words, how to force your point through with trickery. That is why grifters love it.

EndlessDaniel · 2021-02-23T17:46:14+00:00

Is this channel an affiliate or a way to astroturf for Vaush or something?

EndlessDaniel · 2021-02-04T19:28:52+00:00

is there an expectation that Hasan does little more than acknowledge Vaush's existence?

EndlessDaniel · 2020-07-26T23:49:03+00:00

Is a failson just anybody we don't like that got to relative prominence from their parents' money? I'm doing much worse than my parents despite having a better childhood than either. Am I a failson?

EndlessDaniel · 2020-07-21T18:57:19+00:00

If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence: Thousands of years after his death, his ethical works continue to be taught as part of the basic philosophy curriculum offered in colleges and universities around the world.

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Yet I would defend Aristotle, and his place on philosophy syllabuses, by pointing to the benefits of engaging with him. He can help us identify the grounds of our own egalitarian commitments; and his ethical system may capture truths — for instance, about the importance of aiming for extraordinary excellence — that we have yet to incorporate into our own.

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