The Great Conversation: Subject
Education is debatable: that much is old news. But what is the stuff being debated?
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How Do You Say …
How Do You Say … English is a tricky language, and its spelling seems to have been designed by somebody who didn’t like people. Combine that with (to
Mill: An Author Profile
MillAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Despite coming late in its history, Mill may have been the single most potent shaper of classical Liberal political theory. ❧ Full
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D’Argenteuil: An Author Profile
D’ArgenteuilAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We do not typically think of wife and nun as words that can apply to the same woman at the same time.
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The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III
The Great Conversation:Pleasure & Pain—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard Having considered the surprisingly ascetic philosophy of Epicurus, and the broader implications of the existence of pain, what is
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Cooper: An Author Profile
CooperAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Virgil wrote the line mens immota manet lacrimæ volvuntur inanes* about Æneas; but if he had been thinking of Cooper, he might
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The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part II
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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Malory: An Author Profile
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
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
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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