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Montesquieu described three distinct types of government: Republic, Monarchy, and Despotism. He makes salient the difference between Monarchy and Despotism: in a monarchy, the power of the sovereign is constrained, where in a despotism, the sovereign has total power to execute his every whim. Rather than making one threefold distinction, as Montesquieu does, it seems [...]
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The Illuminati has been making overtures to me of late. Never one to pass up an opportunity to lord secret power over unsuspecting masses, I quickly accepted. But it seems they’ve been planning to induct me for a while. An observant reader has recently brought to my attention a startling fact which it may behoove [...]
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Occam’s razor is often cited as an evidence against the existence of God. The argument goes that if we can explain the universe without resorting to notions of God, then it is preferable to do so. Whether or not Occam’s razor actually applies in this situation, this argument obviously has its appeal: why argue for the existence of something that we don’t need to explain what we see? Yet the appeal of this argument in itself belies its very unsuitability for this question, and in fact demonstrates just the opposite point…