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There is a hidden tradition of philosophy, deeper and richer than what you were taught.

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@hexstellation He’s sexy enough to have a dark triad trait named after him! But the “good” Machiavelli, the Machiavelli of Italian self-defence and Classical republicanism, charming and passionate but misunderstood by the world, also has some Romantic allure.

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@ZerothAxiom @enolan @patio11 has his chance to become the most important man in AI right now

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@ZerothAxiom @enolan Banks do this thousands of times a day. Unless the government is privately demanding more than current AML/KYC regimes, it’s just some very unpleasant compliance work for Anthropic.

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@miltonappl3 This is what Coulanges’ Ancient City is all about - how those customs, including the worship of the perpetual family fire, appeared in early Greece/Italy and how they changed into the later religion we know as Greek/Roman

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@HunterBiden @altstudio54 yeah this is a publicist typing

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@altstudio54 If you pulled weedslut420, kudos to you, that probably also makes you Eskimo brothers with Matt Christman

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@altstudio54 Genuinely possible he did secretly get Extremely Online after getting sober. He was fucking that one D-list egirl for a while, maybe she got him on Twitter

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@altstudio54 It’s incredibly slick and consistent, optimized for virality, and it doesn’t sound like any of what we have of his private voice. Either he’s been training on an anon account for years or he’s hired a killer ghostwriter.

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@altstudio54 The man hangs dong

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The Common-Folk ◯ JM Barsley https://t.co/d3xHZuOhmf

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@TDegirolami @zenahitz Also, UChicago humanities majors give you enough flexibility that you can easily give yourself a Great Books education while staying a philosophy or English major. But, outside of the Core, the university will not guide you directly to it, you have to build the plan yourself.

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Great! Let me just clear up one more thing - when I said that students will read things in the sciences (and other disciplines with, shall we say, a worse reputation), I don’t mean that’s to the exclusion of the great books, just that a student whose project touches on other fields would be studying them as well, that’s part of the flexibility the major offers over straight philosophy/literature/etc. For instance, it would be reasonable for a Fundamentals student studying psychoanalysis to also study basic neurobiology (which UChicago is excellent at teaching to non-scientists) in order to find points of synergy or inspiration.

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@SamuelBiagetti @AKTR33 @zenahitz @tcleveland4real Up to you! Could be a mix of philosophy, literature, political theory, cognitive science, history, international relations, sociology, anything that gets you closer to your question.

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I think it’s a pretty simple depth-vs-breadth tradeoff. If you already have a grounding in the Great Books, or an area of deep academic passion you’re likely to continue with in grad school or independent study, something like Fundamentals is the next step. So missing the form/structure of a Great Books course isn’t necessarily bad, but they’re not the same thing.

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@HellenicVibes @Tool_Being “Rarely is the question asked: is our Being Being”