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	<title>The CyberPhilosopher</title>
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	<description>Philosphical Rants, thoughts, and a fair amount of bull.</description>
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		<title>Why give up meat.</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About 7 months ago I listened to an interview on Point of Inquiry with Peter Singer.  The effect on my life from that single interview was as immediate and drastic as any other single interaction (one way or bi-directionally) that I can think of.After listening, I decided to give up eating most meat.   This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts about Sports in Society</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night at the bar, Ultimate Fighting Championship was on and like many other I was unable to look away while one person allowed themselves to be voluntarily beaten senseless by another person while somewhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of people watched him.
This prompted one of my co-workers to say how that sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic woman rejected for Citizenship.  Racism, Bigotry, or group identity issue?</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an article on MSNBC click here  describing how France has decided not to make an individual a citizen due to their beliefs.  In this case, the individual is a Muslim woman and the belief is her submissiveness to her husband.
This raises alot of interesting questions, not the least of which is what right does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on Kant&#8217;s Categorical Imperative</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=30</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[do-as-i-do]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kant’s conception of the Categorical Imperative is, as he puts it, ‘The categorical imperative would be that which represented an action as necessary of itself without reference to another end, i.e. as objectively necessary&#8217;. On the other side, a hypothetical imperative represents practical necessity or things that are directed towards a goal or desire. Kant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mind of the Market - Michael Shermer</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=29</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just recently finished reading Michael Shermer&#8217;s latests book, &#8216;The Mind of the Market&#8217;.  I started it about two months ago (ok, in my own defense, I generally read at least 3 books at one time and I have a 19 month old child, so lets not blame this on the book).  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram&#8217;s Obediance Studies, and thoughts about order.</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=28</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=28#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading &#8220;Mind of the Market&#8221; by Michael Shermer and he discusses two different Psychology experiments that have been conducted that show how much environment and situation can have an effect on our actions, i.e. if we behave what we would consider in a good way or a bad way.
The first experiment is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on Spinoza&#8217;s Ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[limits-of-reason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. What is Spinoza’s method?
I would have to describe Spinoza&#8217;s method of philosophy as reason and rationality on steroids. Spinoza recognized the wholeness of the human intellect (reason, will, and passions) and instead of attempting to subjugate the passions to Reason, he instead incorporates them and says that it is the understanding of our passions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science is not Religion, but Religion may fill a scientific purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=26</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=26#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Rant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religious Skeptic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientific]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 	 	
I sometimes hear people talk about science being someones religion; a point which I generally am quick to disagree with and pounce on, but I recently decided to give it further consideration.
First, we must determine what we mean by science and what we mean by religion.  In both definitions, we will no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EXISTENTIALISM and GOD.</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=24</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=24#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 03:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Existentialism isn&#8217;t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn&#8217;t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing. There you&#8217;ve got our point of view. Not that we believe that God exists, but we think that the problem of His existence is not the issue. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logic Tutorial - Deductive verses Inductive Arguments</title>
		<link>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=21</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyberphilosopher.com/?p=21#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>platowannabe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Logic Tutorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When looking at an argument, one of the first things you want to do is determine if an argument is Deductive or Inductive.  Most of the arguments we make from day to day are actually inductive arguments, but they tent to have a fair amount of deductive sub-arguments in them as well as wording [...]]]></description>
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