Having discussed Epicurus, whose “hedonism” was not hedonistic, let us turn to the problem of suffering, which does not exist, has been solved, and is unsolvable.
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MaloryAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. ❧ Full name
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The Great Conversation:Pleasure & Pain—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Superficially simple, pain and pleasure are strangely intricate realities, and have ties to almost every other area of study.
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The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied By Gabriel Blanchard What legacy is there to utter destruction? As it turns out, if it has a poet on its side, quite
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The NibelungenliedA Book Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. ❧ Full title: Der Nibelungenlied (“The Song
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The Great Conversation: Education—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard We have discussed what education is for; what does it consist in? Go here for Part I. In our previous
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WoolfAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. ❧ Full name: Adeline Virginia Woolf, née
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The Great Conversation: Education—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard We shall doubtless get to the last in due time, but what, in the first place, is education for? On
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WhiteheadAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Whitehead said Western philosophy can be described as footnotes to Plato; whether Whitehead saw the weight of the footnote he himself added
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The Soil Is Bare Now: Introducing Some Upcoming Changes to the Journal! What is more satisfying than a summer thunderstorm? The dark indigo clouds hovering on the horizon,
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