This is not about a 'secular' vs. a 'religious' viewpoint, this is about doing religious sociology in a way that isn't half-baked and pays no attentio...
Okay, but at stake here is this conceptually muddled idea of what is and is not 'intrinsic' to any religion - Islam or otherwise. My point, which is n...
Sure, it's 'unequivocal' is that a bunch of highly regarded Muslims found what Ahok said to be blasphemy. At some point I assume you want to make an a...
The first thing to note about this passage is that, at the level of the lived reality of millions of Muslims around the world, it is simply wrong. Tha...
But this topic is a about a pretty damn specific legal case in Indonesia. If one wants to move from that to a discussion of Islamic culture more gener...
I never said there is no Muslim culture, which I think is the phrase Andrew used. I said it'd be 'more correct' - by which I mean more analytically us...
A poll of 600 US Muslims does not a representative sample of five hundred million make. And because Sharia is practised in plenty of non-theocratic pl...
That wasn't your claim. Moreover, Sharia is simply Muslim jurisprudence: the exact articulation between that jurisprudence and the state is complex an...
Yeah, a 'fact" that, y'know, facts speak out against. As in, you are literally 100% wrong about this. Put it this way dude, there are literally more t...
Interestingly, this tend continued in the recent French election. Olivier Roy - the single best commentator on these issues for more than two decades ...
Ugh, please. This is as much to do with Indonesian politics as it has to do with religion, and any analysis that calls this a 'textbook case' of how I...
'Unicorn' returns more hits than both combined. Ergo, Unicorns are even more real than cultures. I feel a rejoinder to Quine's 'On What Is' in the wor...
For sure, which is why you'll rarely find the term 'social construct' actually employed by anyone outside a kind of pejorative or highly qualified usa...
Not really - not because I disagree, mind you, but simply because the actual engagement with the sciences, with a few exceptions, has been relatively ...
As usual, the first thing to point out is that 'postmodernism' does not designate any school of thought or philosophy, and refers rather to a particul...
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A few things, I guess: first, at the level of sheer instinctual/aesthetic response, I think it's an incredibly naive, even childish thesis (I mean thi...
But truth is only relevant in langauge games where truth is at stake: in Witty's example, "slab!", is neither true nor untrue: it is - in the game he ...
No, do the work yourself. Look up the the difference between interpretation and understanding employed by Wittgenstein, look up where he speaks of the...
Heh, you wouldn't catch me dead doing almost anything with FOPL, so I'm on board with you on this one. To follow through on this - along with your int...
Agreed, but the point is rather that the specific phenomenon of efficient causality is what takes place precisely at the intersection or the meeting p...
I think I'd modify this a bit to recognize that there is never not a context to begin with, so that it's no longer a question of 'independence', but o...
I wrote a thing: I wait for a blinking light Around which now this day does spin, this tiny pulse of white. Like a planet plucked from out of space, t...
Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory is one text that comes to mind, although you have to read about 3/4s of the book to get to where he starts...
Two things you need to remember to properly understand the analytic/synthetic distinction (along with the a priori/a posteriori distinction). First, i...
Intuitively, I'd say negation is generally predicated of the 'same' thing, as in 'negative charge' and 'positive charge', or 'positive spin' and 'nega...
Not necessarily - one would first need evidence that medicine has significantly altered the human genotype to the point which such alterations have be...
By recognising that there is no absolute standard of capital-N Nature by which to measure 'robustness' by. That is, species fitness is always relative...
Mm, but I would say that fascism inverts this formula: it's about the interests of the State over and above the welfare of individual citizens. Exactl...
Yeah, that's fair enough. It's probably a matter of distinguishing between fascism-as-idea and fascism-in-practice, depending on the kind of discussio...
You should check out Moussolini's rather lucid writings on fascism, where he explicitly ditinguishes fascism from socialism along the lines of the emp...
I don't know how calling you out for literally not knowing what you are talking about comprises 'low quality argumentation'. For instance, you seem to...
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