(Motski, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Religion and Morality 3. The New Apocalypse, The Spirituality-Industrial Complex, The Highest Good, and Morality 4. There’s Always a Constructive, Enabling Alternative To Every Social-Institutional Structure That’s Destructive and Deforming, Even If That Social Institution Seems To Be Eternal or Written-in-Stone 5. Realistically Optimist Dignitarian Humanism as … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas.
(Spicer and Roulet, 2014a) You can download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas What is the professional academic system of peer review? Here’s … [continue reading]
“My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison.
“First Amendment,” by C.D. Arthur, 2023 (McCordick, 2023: p. 35) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. “My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison You, the reader of … [continue reading]
Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility.
(Baker, 2016) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility In their important essay, “From Scientific Reproducibility To Epistemic Humility,” Joseph Wayne Smith and … [continue reading]
Moral Literacy: A Primer.
McGuffey’s Primer, 1836 (Wikimedia Commons, 2016) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Moral Literacy: A Primer In an essay called “Higher Education, Higher-Order Illiteracy, and Moral Illiteracy,” I argued … [continue reading]
Higher Education, Higher-Order Illiteracy, and Moral Illiteracy.
(NYT, 2023, photograph by K. Szymczak ) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Higher Education, Higher-Order Illiteracy, and Moral Illiteracy As of 28 November 2023, 15,000 Palestinians had been … [continue reading]
Free Reading, Civil Reading, and The Right to Literacy.
Frederick Douglass (1817/1818-1895) Paulo Freire (1921-1997) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Free Reading, Civil Reading, and The Right to Literacy It’s a truth self-evidently known, that you, the … [continue reading]
Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading.
“A Philosopher Reading a Book,” Dutch School (Artnet, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading You, the reader of this … [continue reading]
“This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility.
“Relativity,” by M.C. Escher (1953) (Valentino, 2020) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. “This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility This very sentence is … [continue reading]
The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy.
“Girl with a Book,” by Alexander Deineka (1934) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy You, the reader of this very sentence, are consciously … [continue reading]