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		<title>Laurence J. Peter on &#8216;competence&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/laurence-j-peter-on-competence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.&#8221;
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		<title>George Bernard Shaw on &#8216;democracy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.&#8221;
- George Bernard Shaw
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		<title>Nicholas Chamfort on Man as an Actor</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/247/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.&#8221;
-Nicholas Chamfort
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		<title>Democratic Republic of the Congo &#8211; Rape as a weapon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to my speech on the Democractic Republic of the Congo.

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		<title>Nietzsche and nihilism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nietzsche saw nihilism as the emptying meaning from the world. It is a situation whereby the world is emptied of morals, truth, judgement and values. When he declared, “God is dead, and we killed him.” Nietzsche acknowledged the move to scientific thinking had supplanted faith. The loss of a higher power that could define absolutes meant that all morals, truth and values were now open to question.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&blog=5537269&post=224&subd=spursinn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review on the validity of the philosophical &#8216;mind&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Descartes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In philosophy there have been two main schools of thought about the relationship between ‘mind’ and ‘body’. These were dualism, which originated with Plato and was later extended by Descartes and materialism, which was extended to its logical conclusion by Hume. This critique will briefly review the origins and logic of both schools.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&blog=5537269&post=221&subd=spursinn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machiavelli: cynicism vs Cynicism</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/machiavelli-cynicism-vs-cynicism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cynicism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Machiavelli cynical?
According to dictionary.com[1], cynical, n. a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
Based on this definition Machiavelli can validly be called a cynic as his philosophy stems from the assumption that people are inherently evil. Because of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&blog=5537269&post=216&subd=spursinn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche on &#8216;conviction&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/nietzsche-on-conviction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; convictions are prisons and men of conviction are of no account whatever&#8221;; this is why &#8220;great minds are sceptical.&#8221;
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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		<title>Justice Trevor Riley on drunken violence</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/justice-trevor-riley-on-drunken-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Links to articles:
The Australian
The Age
Sydney Morning Herald
NT News
ABC
The West Australian
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		<title>study resumes</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/study-resumes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would appear that reading philosophy is not something that mixes well with having an extended family visit over Christmas.
University has now restarted so posts for the next while will be focussed on useful and interesting information found there. I shall return to Mr Nietzsche in due course.
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