Don’t miss this debate that featured Stephen Hicks, and author Thaddeus Russell. Soho Forum director Gene Epstein moderated. Related:
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In a letter to his former master, Frederick Douglass explains his decision to escape from slavery: “The morality of the act, I dispose as follows: I am myself; you are yourself; we are two distinct persons, equal persons. What you are, I am. You are a man, and so am I. God created both, and
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I’ve been reading Richard Seaford’s Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy. Seaford’s theme: “the monetisation of the Greek polis in the sixth and fifth centuries BC contributed to a radical transformation in thought that is, in a sense, still with us. Academics—perhaps because they are more interested in texts than in money—have
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Re-reading The Fountainhead made me wonder: Is the character Gordon Prescott based on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy?
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a figurative painter and the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. The full 29-work list is below. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29 Great Art Works: 1. Geometric Warrior, 8th century BCE 2.
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(Reprising this translation by Coleman Barks) Little by little, wean yourself.This is the gist of what I have to say.From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood,move to an infant drinking milk,to a child on solid food,to a searcher after wisdom,to a hunter of more invisible game. Think how it is to have a
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a figurative painter, teacher, and author of Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. The full 29-work list is below. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29 Great Art Works: 1. Geometric Warrior, 8th century BCE 2. Kroisos, 540-515 BCE 3. Aphrodite
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“Tell something to children, tell them the whole thing right to the end, and they’ll still ask: Then what? What comes next?”
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children.”
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