The Spectacled Avenger

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Juvenal's "Satires"

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It’s high time for me to write about another favourite book. This time I’ve chosen Juvenal’s Satires . In the popular imagination, the Roma...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Honour Killing

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Honour killing is not new. Nor has it been, historically speaking, peculiar to non-Western cultures. In the seventh century BC, Rome was at...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Betting on God

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Some time ago in this blog I made a claim to the effect that theistic philosophers of religion have produced a remarkable number of really ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Custom and Precedent

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Stare decisis is the common law doctrine that judges are bound to uphold previous decisions. It is more commonly known as the doctrine of ...
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