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Neil Levy "The Prospects for Evolutionary Ethics Today" Euramerica 40, no. 3 (September 2010): 529-71. Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica http://euramerica.org [via academia.edu] Crossposted at substack.com So, an Australlian? Neuroscientist? via Oxford? Abstract: One reason for the widespread resistance to evolutionary accounts of the origins of humanity is the fear that they undermine morality: if morality is…

In my view, religion is a technology of government. My view? Within the framework of the worlding urge, that much of our institutions are things we have met with and made, are the outcomes of that which moves us to should among and on others. It is why we should, the basic assumption of this blog. I say that with…

For my worlding urge arguments about why we should… the curator presenter actually says its the most important thing one can say… “to make things function as they should”. Glossing this as a statement of power misses why statements of power would talk like this. “Make America Great Again” or “Drain the swamp” or "Eat the Rich" are equivalent statements…

Kockelman, Paul. 2024. ‘Ontologies and Worlds: The Price of Being Free’, Current Anthropology 65(5): 922–7. via journals.uchicago.edu Kockelman introduces his article as follows: Here is a link for the wikipedia entry on ‘ontological turn’. This is a play on the ‘linguistic turn’ describing philosophical fashions beginning a century ago. It passed me by. I basically cannot stand ontological approaches so…

I’ve been reading someone else’s copy of Iris Murdochs’ Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 9780701139988 (article) over the last few weeks. By “someone else’s copy” I mean it has pencilled marginalia like Astute Observation and as I have met the previous owner, these words read themselves aloud in his voice. It’s been slow going, not…

Wikipedia says The Shepherd of Hermas, or the Good Shepherd, 3rd century, Catacombs of Rome. But the devotee bringing a lamb to sacrifice is common across many local “pagan” practices in the Mediterranean. A couple of posts ago (Inappropriation) I introduced the work that led to an awkward conversation. This post is just to add that I’ve finished Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion…