Fred Guerin
Michael Sandal's Kant Lecture
Michael Sandel talks about 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant's understanding of human freedom and his elaboration of a...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
Philanthropy and Profit the Bill Gates Way
The Bill Gates Foundation: Call it what it is: not a Foundation but a Front to advance the interests of an already super-wealthy elite....
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min read
Plato's Cave Revisited
Back in 1973 Orson Welles did a pretty good job bringing Plato's Cave Parable to life through animation. "It is the task of the...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
Julian Assange v. Power Elite
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. That is something to cheer about....
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
Let's Not Return to Normal
As always, the cries of politicians on both sides for things to 'return to normal' after the COVID pandemic and the recent thuggery in...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
Wearing a Mask as an Act of Love
Wearing a mask in a time of a viral pandemic that spreads mainly through the air when people are near each other, is not a selfish act....
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
Free Speech v. Inciting Violence
Trump supporters are presently lashing out at FB and Twitter for violating their 'dear leader's' constitutional right to free speech...
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Fred Guerin
Dec 13, 20203 min read
Voter Fraud? No. Voter Suppression? Yes, indeed
Image in Rolling Stone, July 16, 2020 In yet another court decision Trump's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission failed 'as...
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Fred Guerin
Dec 10, 20208 min read
On Lying and Truth in a Post-Trump World
There is a certain inevitability to lying in politics not just because as Hannah Arendt said “truthfulness has never been counted among...
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Fred Guerin
Nov 29, 202016 min read
On The Manifold Understandings of Time and the Phenomenology of Temporality
Gollum's Riddle This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays...
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Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20205 min read
On Critical Thinking (Again!)
It the age of social media the virtue of critical thinking--and I mean here questioning not just others but our own beliefs and...
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Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20206 min read
A Sunday Sermon from a Local Pagan
The historical Jesus Christ of Nazareth was a rabbi and a radical social activist. He was a flawed being like the rest of us. He sat...
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Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20206 min read
On 'How Science Works' Within a Capitalist System
Illustration by Jasper Rietman In an interesting recent article in the New Yorker Joshua Rothman, situates the question of 'the way...
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Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20202 min read
A National Disgrace
The first United States presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden took place on September 29, 2020, with a further two...
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Fred Guerin
Sep 6, 20203 min read
Chevron v Steven Donziger
Those of us who consider themselves on the left of the political spectrum all understand how corporations and powerful individuals can...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 21, 20205 min read
Spinoza: On The Ethics and Nature
If I were to choose between the three most celebrated 17th Century rationalists, Descartes, Spinoza or Leibniz, Spinoza would be my...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 16, 20209 min read
Law, Equity and Systemic Discrimination
There is a great deal to be said for living one’s life according to certain generalized or universal moral principles. Thus, the demand...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 15, 20202 min read
On Hope and the Possible
“I dwell in possibility…” Emily Dickinson “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.” Friedrich Nietzsche We all hope...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 15, 20204 min read
‘All Lives Matter’ or How to Self-Righteously Erase a History of Racism
The slogan ‘All Lives Matter’, reputed to be a criticism and moral corrective to the exclusivist Black Lives Matter movement, precisely...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 14, 20209 min read
On The J.K. Rowling Controversy
What of the controversy? I would be with JK Rowling—at least in the qualified sense that I would be with anyone who had the courage to...
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