burkean

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by burkean 6y ago
In the first few weeks of working from home, my depression definitely got significantly worse. I'm pretty sure that, perversely, I enjoy my job because of the high levels of stress and anxiety (teaching) that normally distract from dee
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by burkean 13y ago
I like Crunchbang for political, not technical reasons. It doesn't matter to me if every package is vanilla Debian. Crunchbang provides an opinionated set of defaults for what a composable, 'minimal' Linux desktop might look like. These day
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by burkean 14y ago
When I read the 'science of man' and/or 'natural rights' accounts of political society and morality, I am struck my how astute Kant's critique was--that what we call conventional morality can't be found in anthropological conjecture. But ou
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by burkean 14y ago
> There are always exceptions, but you will have to be exceptional in their eyes. This is spot-on. People take certain prejudices to their modelling high school dropouts. These are formed by the sheer repetition of observation. Droppin
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by burkean 14y ago
> here in the UK, the very same PM has trebled the costs of going to university for English and Welsh students, pricing many out As far as I was aware, under the new scheme, graduates only start paying back their student debt once (and
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by burkean 14y ago
> Which historical state of nature does it refer to? Hobbes' state of nature is probably an ahistorical argument. That all men used to live under a state of nature is not necessary to Hobbes' argument. It is a thought experiment, showin
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by burkean 15y ago
I think you might need to put your sarcasm detectors into British mode. Questions around outsourcing, the standard of secondary education, and how education meets the needs of industry all loom fairly large in the British political landscap