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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Exchange On The Idea Of Moral Progress

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L: Since I'm skeptical of the whole idea/phenomenon of moral progress, I've give it some thought and here are some results, which ...

Monday, May 31, 2021

Mare Of Easttown, My View Of It

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Mare Of Easttown has gotten high reviews, the enthusiasm for it centred on Kate Winslett’s apparent career-topping performance as she transf...

Thursday, May 27, 2021

A Few Immediate Thoughts On An Exchange Between Roger Scruton And Terry Eagleton

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Scruton v Eagleton https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qOdMBDOj4ec My note to a friend: I listened to their exchange till t...

Saturday, May 22, 2021

An Amateur’s Amateur Shot At The “Hard Problem”

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On the issue of consciousness and free will, John Searle argues, numbered 1-6: 1. there are two irreconcilable, irreducible and irrefutabl...

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Abortion, Note To A Friend

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Thanks for your thoughts, F. The basic question is when does human life begin from the perspective of the abortion issue? At the moment of ...

Monday, May 17, 2021

Abortion

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My views on abortion have narrowed. SCOTUS just voted to take up a case involving a Mississippi law, as I broadly understand it, outlawing...

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Saturday, May 15, 2021

My Note On James Baldwin On Jews And On Whites

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Baldwin: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html?_r=2 Me to who sent it to me, M: Thanks M....

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itzik basman: I got my B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia ("U.B.C."). I got my Secondary School Teaching Certificate from U.B.C. and my Masters degree in English Literature from U.B.C. writing my 125 page Masters' Thesis on the novels of Mordecai Richler. I attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, graduating with my Juris Doctor . After articling and completing the Ontario Bar Admissions Course, I was called to the bar in Ontario. I have practiced law to date in Toronto, specializing in Family Law, Civil Litigation, and Appellate Advocacy. I have pleaded cases in all civil Ontario courts, including many times in the Ontario Court of Appeal, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. I practice law under the firm name Itzik Basman Barrister, James Rose, my former associate, having died January 23, 2011. I published on line in 2004 my extended essay on "Hamlet, entitled Futility As Tragedy: An Interpretation Of Hamlet". It can be found at Lulu.Com. It was critically reviewed both in Kritikos and Politics and Culture. I live in Toronto.

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