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		<title>Inconceivable!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/inconceivable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is fertility a health issue or a lifestyle choice? This month a health care refom advisory panel will meet to consider whether contraception should be offered free of charge as a form of preventative medicine, the AP reports. Healthcare reform of course poses many questions concerning how medical services are paid for and delivered. But, [...]


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		<title>Throw your hatred down</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/26/throw-your-hatred-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moral disagreement and demonization Writing for The Washington Post, Robert Samuelson claims that dysfunction in American politics has reached a new low.  Samuelson diagnoses several reasons for the surging dysfunction in politics, but one strikes a particular chord with me: Second, politics has become more moralistic from both left and right. Idealistic ideologues campaign to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/12/you-know-youre-right/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: You know you&#8217;re right'>You know you&#8217;re right</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/02/respect-what-does-it-mean-to-horst-kohler/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Guest Post: What does respect mean to Horst Köhler?'>Guest Post: What does respect mean to Horst Köhler?</a></li>
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		<title>Mother always said to tell the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/04/mother-always-said-to-tell-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the truth doesn’t always make an interesting story The biopic The Social Network opened on Friday. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Facebook, and people close to him convincingly dismiss the movie as more fiction than fact. Have David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin done us a disservice? People have always applied artistic license [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/10/27/the-naked-truth-about-freedom/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The naked truth about freedom'>The naked truth about freedom</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/01/do-unto-others/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do unto others'>Do unto others</a></li>
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		<title>God Save the Queen (or President?)</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/21/god-save-the-queen-or-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics, religion, and &#8220;public reason&#8221; Writing for The Washington Post, Damon Linker proposes a norm of questioning politicians about their religious beliefs. Every religion is radically particular, with its own distinctive beliefs about God, human history and the world. These are specific, concrete claims &#8212; about the status of the religious community in relation to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/25/the-impossibility-of-secular-judgment/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The (im)possibility of secular judgment'>The (im)possibility of secular judgment</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/06/10/we-must-save-the-children-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: We must save the children!'>We must save the children!</a></li>
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		<title>Do ask, do tell –later, when you’re a little older</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, a federal judge in California ruled Don’t Ask Don’t Tell unconstitutional on First and Fifth Amendment grounds for restricting the rights of gay service members to free speech, free association, and due process.  The case put the Obama administration in a slightly awkward position, having to defend a standing law that it is [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/16/sensitivity-and-principle/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sensitivity and principle'>Sensitivity and principle</a></li>
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		<title>Career of evil?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/08/career-of-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A continent’s past crimes and present guilt A piece in The National Review commends an essay by Parisian intellectual Pascal Bruckner that diagnoses a type of European “self-hatred.”  Europe apparently views its own history as a series of crimes for which it must repent.  Bruckner thinks this guilt is responsible for the continent’s “decline.” Do [...]


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		<title>Sensitivity and principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, President Obama weighed in publicly on the mosque at ground zero. In doing so, he has joined Mayor Bloomberg as one of few major political figures who have openly voiced support for the project on the basis of freedom of religion. However, polls indicate that Americans as well as New Yorkers overwhelmingly oppose [...]


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		<title>Ground Zero mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morality vs. legality? The debate over the Muslim mosque and community center near Ground Zero has resulted in a number of different, passionate reactions.  Once the media took up the subject, politicians and leaders from all over the US weighed in rather quickly. On Friday, even President Obama shared his view in favor of the [...]


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		<title>I have a proposition for you&#8230; never mind</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/05/i-have-a-proposition-for-you-never-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gay marriage debate in California and beyond In a 136-page decision, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker has overturned California’s Proposition 8, which provided that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.&#8221; A (temporary) triumph for supporters of gay marriage, the case will likely be appealed and eventually find its way to the [...]


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		<title>The ethics of the House ethics committee</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/30/the-ethics-of-the-house-ethics-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/30/the-ethics-of-the-house-ethics-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who do they represent? The most interesting ethical questions surrounding Charlie Rangel don’t concern him, his villas, or his rent controlled apartments.  They are about the operation and purpose of the House ethics committee and what ethical perspective members of the House should bring to bear on the controversy. Rangel, dethroned former chairman of the [...]


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