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December 2009

Recipe: Slow-Cooked Spicy Citrus Chicken

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 30, 2009 @ 1:22 am Food and Cooking

Ingredients

1      6-oz can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1      6-oz can frozen pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
1      cup  catsup
4      tablespoons lemon juice
3      teaspoons cayenne pepper (less if you’re a pansy, more if you like)
4      tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
2      2-inch stick cinnamon
16    whole allspice
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Summary: Korsgaard’s Sources of Normativity

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 29, 2009 @ 1:17 pm Nonfiction Reviews

In an undergrad philosophy class on problems in ethical theory, taught by libertarian James Stacey Taylor (who introduced me to the IHS), we were required to write 300-words-or-less summaries of each chapter of the philosophy books we were reading. It’s not easy summarizing 10-30 pages of academic philosophy into 300 words or less, and such [...]

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court’s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book.
I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of All [...]

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Aristotle’s Prime Mover

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 4, 2009 @ 9:05 am philosophy

Sources: De Anima III.5, Metaphysics XII (especially 7 & 9), Physics VIII (especially 8-10).
Characteristics of the Prime Mover (Divine Nous):
• First principle
• First mover (logically, not temporally); itself unmoved and unmovable/unalterable
• Substance (and arguably form) without matter
• Self-thinking thought
• Eternal and in eternal possession of its object (thought); therefore always active and never passive,
always actuality [...]

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