Alexander Kosoris

Author, pharmacist, and essayist.

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In this month's essay, I discuss Rousseau's Social Contract and how understanding it can be useful to us in contemporary times. https://t.co/5nbL2WO1n6

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... Thanks for everyone who's read my work and supported my journey.

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Next week, I'll be posting what will be my last essay for a while. While I plan to write more in the future, I likely will be neglecting my social media accounts indefinitely. Check https://t.co/DrLBx0KJ06 periodically if you want to see what I'm doing. ...

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In this month's essay, I differentiate between different kinds of Rights as I see them to try and suggest paths to a better world. https://t.co/Edrhi4r8xV

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In this month's essay, I discuss the idea of effective criticism and how it should help us understand what is truly practical. https://t.co/lSfWFYgKxv

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In this month's essay, I discuss AI art and some greater cultural problems that surround it. https://t.co/og4t2W3c1w

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... Starting in November, I'll be posting again, monthly, on the first Sunday of each month. I hope you come back to check out the product of my labours.

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I've been hiding away and writing for the first time in a long while. After just over a week, I now have 4 workable drafts which, after a bit of editing, I plan to start posting. ...

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I'll be participating at the Ontario Culture Days event at the Baggage Building Arts Centre on Sept 20. It's from 6:30-9:00 pm and I'll be one of the authors reading a 15 minute piece. Hope to see you there!

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@omarelakkad Question about What Strange Paradise: Assuming Vänna is pronounced similar to "in vain," was that intended, (suggesting something about her and what she does in the book,) or is that a bit of a reach on my part, my making a connection that may not be there?

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"Sometimes I think an artist's job is just to notice things." -Cindy Blažević

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"Yield to your arguments only when you feel that they agree with the dictamen of your conscience, and whenever you feel that they contradict it, you may be sure that it is they that deceive you." -J. J. Rousseau

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"[T]o deprive one's will of all freedom is to deprive one's actions of all morality." -Rousseau, Of the Social Contract

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"Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality." -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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@Anteneh007 @CordeiroRick (You mean A/B=57/19=3)

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This is the final essay in a four-part series I wrote on partisanism. In this month’s installment, I discuss the importance of resisting partisan pressures in order to maintain freedom of thought and principles. https://t.co/yIGwe8f4v9

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... while we others constantly have to grope our way forward through agonizing insecurity." -Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (referring to Goethe)

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"And one may well breathe a sigh of relief when one recognizes that it is nevertheless given to a few human beings to produce the most profound insights, more or less effortlessly, from the maelstrom of their own feelings, ...

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@Elliott_Gish It's such a great book, and it's worthy of book club discussion, for sure.

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In a week I'll be finishing off my series on partisanism, and then I'll likely be disappearing again for a lengthy period. Thank you everyone who took the time to read the pieces.