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Richard Rorty and How Postmodernism Helped Elect Trump

Rupert Read on Richard Rorty’s warning to the future.

https://t.co/0CFk3VMG7e

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A democracy is a state which recognises the subjecting of the minority to the majority.--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.--Seneca

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I won't talk to my colleagues about philosophy... They are too stupid.--Colin McGinn

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Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy.--Chief Reuben O. Ogunyemi

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Britains's Favourite Philosopher Guilty of Fare Evasion

The Curious Tale of C. E. M. Joad & the Train Ticket

https://t.co/bPKfTUncLW

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Doing Philosophy as Teaching Philosophy

Alexandra Bradner and Andrew P. Mills argue that teaching is a lot more than just telling.

https://t.co/acJW9UWau2

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Music and Philosophy, curiosity, The purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.--T. S. Eliot

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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.--Michel de Montaigne

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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.--G.W.F. Hegel

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[O]ur inquiries should be directed, not to what others have thought, nor to what we ourselves conjecture, but to what we can clearly and distinctly see and with certainty deduce, for knowledge is not won in any other way.--Rene Descartes

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How the English Are the Best in the World

Everybody and everything in England is the best

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A Marathon for the Mind

Gary Flood investigates Philosothons, a new philosophical phenomenon in schools.

https://t.co/7RjPPPxYh9

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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.--Simone de Beauvoir

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How can I even begin to read this muck?

[About Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"]--Martin Heidegger

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Woman can be emancipated only when she can take part on a large social scale in production and is engaged in domestic work only to an insignificant degree.--Friedrich Engels

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Religion is the only means of introducing some notion of the high significance of life into the uncultivated heads of the masses, deep sunk as they are in mean pursuits and uncultivated drudgery.--Arthur Schopenhauer

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Not Such a Bright Idea

On the ill-fated "Brights" fiasco

https://t.co/MegXnxIJZZ

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What Do You Really Want?

Quassim Cassam makes a case for a new, human picture of self-knowledge.

https://t.co/rh0bSKOyIU

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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.--Ernest Becker