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Political theory and practice

Political theory and practice

Thinking and doing

Author: Michael W Jackson

Mystery solved.

The top three hundred sounds good to me, but not to the VC.

I got this unbidden email a few days ago. At first I thought it had something to with this blog, though I found that unlikely.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 9, 2007Categories Practice

Euthyphro, piety, logic, and Socrates

A philosophic game.

Have fun with this game.
I am told that Don Baker has put the Euthrypro Dialog1 on line a:
http://donbarker.com/dialog1/

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 9, 2007Categories Theory

The canon of political theory.

I thought it was time to take stock.

One of my ambitions as a political theorist is to publish on each theorist in the canon of political theory.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 3, 2007Categories Theory

Chapter Sixteen: The End and the Beginning.

These books are the X-Files.

Plato and the philosopher’s phone: the essay.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on March 31, 2007Categories Theory

Chapter Fifteen: Aristotle the kitten and slavery.

A very simple exposition of Aristotle on happiness is Jean Vanier, A Guide to the Good Life: Happiness, Aristotle for the New Century (2001).

What shall we do with all our leisure? Keep busy!

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on March 27, 2007Categories Theory

Utopia 1

Utopia understands the present through the future.

Utopia in theory and practice. It’s all in the black.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on March 6, 2007Categories Practice1 Comment on Utopia 1

Jackson in a hat!

The sky did fall. It is a risk revealing this hat. It is probably an offence to be in possession of a fire warden’s hat when not a fire warden!

A theorist and nothing but.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on February 25, 2007Categories Theory1 Comment on Jackson in a hat!

Chapter Fourteen: Aristotle today.

And you thought you knew Aristotle!

Aristotle applied readily today.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on February 13, 2007Categories Theory1 Comment on Chapter Fourteen: Aristotle today.

Chapter Thirteen: Big Aristotle.

The resemblance that lucky guy Plummer bears to me is uncanny isn’t it?

Let’s start with Big Aristotle.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on February 13, 2007Categories Theory1 Comment on Chapter Thirteen: Big Aristotle.

La vie en rosé – Chapter Seven

The final proof that rosé has come back is that it now figures both in the mid market recommendations of magazines and newspapers and in the down market advertisements from the bulk dealers like Dan Murphy in Australia.

The Stelvin top is here to stay, and hooray, I say, to that!

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on February 12, 2007Categories Service

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