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- Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Plato defined philosophy as the love of wisdom. Philosophers ever since have …
- Economics & Human Sympathetic FacultiesEconomists often venerate Adam Smith’s monumental Wealth of Nations (1776) as the Newtonian origin of their …
- The evolution of evolutionary theoryUnlike Archimedes — who made one of his defining discoveries in a single flash, a Eureka …
- Varieties of BS“BS!”, like “bull!”, “crap!”, “humbug!”, “buncome!” and similar expressions, can seriously damn a rival’s claim or …
- Four Formidable Women PhilosophersRemarkably, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch graduated from Oxford within a few …
- Saving Private RyanSaving Private Ryan (1998, directed by Steven Spielberg): In addition to being an action movie set …
- SymposiumPlato, Symposium: This is one of Plato’s literary masterpieces, along with the Republic. It contains several …
- Theodor Lessing – prophet, outcast, & anti-NaziTheodor Lessing–controversialist, satirist, and spur to Nazi flanks–fled Germany in early 1933 to Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. He …
- Nature and Human Nature in Aesop’s FablesSince ancient times, readers have recognized that the dogs, foxes, lions, ants, grasshoppers, and other creatures …
- Ancient Cynicism, ancient philosophy for contemporary lifeTo combat the corrosive affects of contemporary cynicism implicit in the ineffectual carping that has so …
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- Ancient Philosophy, Classical Education, & ClassEdith Hall and Ansgar Allen are interviewed by Tom Sutcliffe on BBC’s “Start of the Week”. …
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- Pragmatism or Philosophy? Countering authoritarianismIn 1996, Richard Rorty delivered a series of lectures at the University of Girona in Catalonia, …
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