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On the passing of an exceptional philosopher
If there’s been one philosopher that stands out over the course of the past century, it would be John Deely. His voluminous works, all too often criticised for their obtuseness, display an astounding insight that is all too rare in the history of this cenoscopic field: he has provided a way forward from the limited…
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On bureaucracy as anti-democracy
In ‘We need to be more than right: in a liberal democracy we should be making space for small, dissident, and unconventional opinions and parties’, John O’Sullivan writes (my bold emphasis): As Anna Fotyga remarked, there is a surprising problem with the term “liberal democracy.” As a defender of liberal democracy as pure as Marc…
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The Value of Minor Parties in the 2016 Australian Federal Election
I am constantly astounded by the way in which that which the Left, when in power, unfortunately establishes, is perpetuated when the so-called ‘Right’ gets elected instead. What we have been seeing in Australia over the last few decades is a progressive (as in the former USSR usage of that word) move away from…
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On the Alphabet, Google and Kurzweil’s hesitation about the future of democracy
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On the educational merits of student financial vouchers
It was refreshing to open the year with a post from Moshe Feiglin (an Israeli parliamentarian) writing the following within a post titled ‘Moshe Feiglin: Instead of Censoring Books, Let Parents Take Responsibility‘: “Give the money (that you took from Israel’s citizens) to the parents in the form of vouchers worth 4,000 NIS per month…
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Victoria’s proposed legislation on vaccination
On my jmdavid.com political site, I have written about the proposed legislation that seeks to forbid healthy children from participating in Kinders. Here is a link to my open letter to members of the Parliament of Victoria: > On the Question of Kindergartens and Vaccinations The proposed Legislation and its anti-democratic impulse Without the freedom…
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Philosophy Conference (July 2015)
The 2015 COMIUCAP Conference is to be held at the A.C.U. in Melbourne on the 22-22 in July, with the focus: Philosophy’s Role in a Renewed Understanding of the Meaning of Education > Conference link Of especial interest was the description in the call to papers, which I quote at length: Education has been widely…
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Victorian elections 2014
Entering the final week before the Victorian State elections, it’s certainly been a journey as I stand as a candidate for the Upper House (in Victoria called the Legislative Council). For anyone standing as an Independent, the electoral system is stacked against such: never mind that an Independent is likely to have less resources than…
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Wilful Web Woes
Over the last few years, I have used two different servers on which to host the various sites I have (or sub-host on behalf of others). It seems like some maliciously intended people have managed to get in to one of the servers (owned by a UK-based company, but maintained in the USA) and caused…
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Kinders & Vaccinations
Here is a link to my open letter to members of the Parliament of Victoria: On the Question of Kindergartens and Vaccinations Please feel free to share or link to it in any way that may assist. Below I also briefly describe my views on the proposed legislation. Michael Leunig’s cartoon on the same subject…
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