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Evasions De Man and  Avoiding Responsibility Paul de Man The late Paul de Man was one of the most influential Postmoderni...

A Note on Nietzsche and Protestant Christianity  Friedrich Nietzsche   The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has had over ...

The “Dog-Marriage” Crates and Hipparchia In a previous posting I talked about the Greek thinker Diogenes, the founder of Cynicis...

That Sinking Feeling Atlantis Part I Plato’s Purpose Destruction of Atlantis One of the most popular of myths has been Plato...

The Death of Socrates A Note The Death of Socrates by David One of the great tropes of the Western Tradition is the Death of S...

Kuhn’s Flawed Idea Prof. Thomas Kuhn One of the most influential books ever written about science is Thomas Kuhn’s The Structu...

Kant’s Cant Crossed Fingers A few Years ago I responded to individual in a forum who accepted a great deal of what Kant said ab...

Hedonism And Melancholy Omar Khayyam relaxing In the mid nineteenth century the Englishman Edward Fitzgerald published a trans...

Plato’s “Empathy” Bust of Plato In Plato’s dialogues there is sometimes the fact that the context, or set up, to his dialogue’s is...

Ayn Rand Progress and Justifiable Atrocity  Ayn Rand The late Ayn Rand, (1905—1982)1 said in response to this question.2 When you con...

Notes on Pythagoras Painting Pythagoras' Hymn to the Sun The following story is told concerning Pythagoras the ancient Greek t...

Night Descending Movie poster for Agora SPOILERS AHEAD! Recently I saw the movie Agora (2009) directed by Alejandro Amenabar and...

Moral Cretinism Part III Longing for Big Brother  Maurice Merleau-Ponty In two previous postings I looked at two other examples of ...

Montesquieu’s Myth of Depopulation Montesquieu In Montesquieu’s work Persian Letters , there is a discussion of the depopulation of the Mod...