From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Eudaimonia, Virtue, and the Right to Liberty

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 31, 2007 @ 1:09 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

Well, I’ve finally completed the first draft of my first dissertation chapter, chapter two (chapter one being the introduction which I will write later). This is the central chapter of the dissertation. I’m hoping to get it published as a separate journal article as well. The working title is “Eudaimonia, Virtue, and the Right to [...]

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Gun Updates

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 30, 2007 @ 12:58 pm Guns and Other Weapons

I’ve got a couple of months worth of gun updates to catch up on. I joined the Eastern Nebraska Gun Club on October 15th. I haven’t been able to go shoot there yet, but I’m planning on going this weekend. There’s a monthly USPSA Practical Pistol match and an HP Rifle Silhouette match on Sunday. [...]

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Rand on the Relationship between Values and Virtues

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 30, 2007 @ 12:43 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

I have uploaded a brief essay giving my interpretation of the relationship between values and virtues in Rand’s though. It was written to fulfill the writing assignment of the TAS/TOC 2007 Grad Student Summer Seminar I attended in August. Enjoy.

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Faux News Entertainment Pwnd by Ron Paul

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 28, 2007 @ 6:31 pm Global Warming
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Naomi Wolf: The End of America

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 25, 2007 @ 7:15 pm Democracy

In related news: “Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000” (USA Today) Are you on the list?

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Giuliani: "Freedom is about authority."

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 24, 2007 @ 9:11 pm Statism

Say what?~*~From Cato-at-Liberty via Tim Lynch (follow the link for his commentary and more links): A disturbing excerpt from a speech that Giuliani delivered in 1994: What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom [...]

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ABC’s 20/20 John Stossel on Climate Change: “Give me a break!”

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 24, 2007 @ 8:37 am Featured Posts
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Couple Make Burglar Clean Up at Gunpoint

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 19, 2007 @ 9:01 am Guns and Other Weapons

“Couple Make Burglar Clean Up at Gunpoint“ My first response was: Hahahahahahahaha!!! Serves him right. Then when I read the article I laughed even more: When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint. “This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess [...]

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Book Review: Sagramanda: A Novel of Near-Future India

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 18, 2007 @ 9:47 pm Featured Posts

I have two book/movie reviews coming out in the Fall issue of Prometheus, the quarterly newsletter of the Libertarian Futurist Society. The first is on the Transformers movie and novelization, and here is the second:Sagramanda: A Novel of Near-Future IndiaBy Alan Dean FosterPyr/Prometheus Books, 2006, $25.00 ($19.00 on Amazon)Reviewed by Geoffrey Allan Plauché Alan Dean [...]

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Book and Movie Review: Transformers

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 18, 2007 @ 9:34 pm Featured Posts

I have two book/movie reviews coming out in the Fall issue of Prometheus, the quarterly newsletter of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Here is the first:Transformers: The MovieDreamWorks SKG, 2007Directed by Michael BayScreenplay by Roberto Orci and Alex KurtzmanStarring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voight, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro Transformers: The NovelBy [...]

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