Comments on: Don’t Know Much… http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/dont-know-much/ science and the public square -- by thomas levenson Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:10:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Teepee12 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/dont-know-much/#comment-8722 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:22:36 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5649#comment-8722 Reblogged this on Serendipity and commented:
Cogent, intelligent, and thoughtful … perhaps it’s time for more ideas and analysis and a lot less inflammatory rhetoric. I can hope, anyhow.

]]> By: The Veil of Opulence, By Benjamin Hale « Serendipity http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/dont-know-much/#comment-8396 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:46:13 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5649#comment-8396 [...] Don’t Know Much… (inversesquare.wordpress.com) [...]

]]> By: Batocchio http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/dont-know-much/#comment-8334 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:09:41 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5649#comment-8334 Good piece; thanks for passing it on. I particularly liked his “veil of opulence.” I’ve written a few posts on this general theme, including one invoking Rawls:

http://vagabondscholar.blogspot.com/2010/07/social-contract.html

I like Hale’s extended discussion. The same goes for Elizabeth Warren’s speeches on these ideas.

(I sometimes describe myself as a civic-minded misanthrope, and being quite individualistic, I sorta think, hell, if I can buy the whole social contract thing…)

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