<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:02:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@dmt117/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Introductory]]></title><description><![CDATA[The convention is to write a post introducing yourself. I've been struggling with an approach to doing that. I could write about my life - where I've been, what I've done, but that's a long way around]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introduction/@dmt117/introductory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introduction/@dmt117/introductory</guid><category><![CDATA[introduction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dmt117]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:37:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristotle's Rational Animal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aristotle famously describes man as a rational animal. We may not appreciate the depths of Aristotle's view if we interpret him within the modern evolutionary categories that are our default intellectual]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dmt117/aristotle-s-rational-animal</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dmt117/aristotle-s-rational-animal</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dmt117]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:56:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Harris and Free Will]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image Source Tooling around youtube I came along this video of an exercise Sam Harris offered as a practical refutation of free will. The exercise Harris advocates is essentially this: He asks you to think]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dmt117/sam-harris-and-free-will</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dmt117/sam-harris-and-free-will</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dmt117]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:04:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4PYjjVwJ1UdtrNhLhGAhzunZwq4UKGxrUhMm9GUsop3ZrXeL2QqenhHCTtA2aVcLGCkzDKHSiQbseqmF5itVDRis3ENx2GQZ9Z2KGMQeva2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chesterton and Original Sin]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the introduction to "The Defendant" in the collection of essays In Defense of Sanity: This is the great fall, the fall by which the fish forgets the sea, the ox forgets the meadow, the clerk]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dmt117/chesterton-and-original-sin</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dmt117/chesterton-and-original-sin</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dmt117]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:39:06 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>