Daily Archives: July 30, 2009

Beer Night (For Obama, Gates, and Crowley)

Posted on July 30, 2009 by jamesbradfordpate

I’ve been changing my mind who knows how many times during this whole Gates-Crowley controversy. First, there was President Obama’s press conference, in which he remarked that the Cambridge police had acted “stupidly” in its treatment of Professor Gates. Right-wing … Continue reading →

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Neatness and Morality

Posted on July 30, 2009 by jamesbradfordpate

Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Volume I: Greece and Rome (Westminster: Newman, 1959) 433. Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher who lived in the first-second centuries C.E. Copleston states regarding Epictetus’ views on bodily and moral cleanliness: Duties towards oneself … Continue reading →

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