John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Despite coming late in its history, Mill may have been the single most potent shaper of classical Liberal political […]
John Stuart Mill An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Despite coming late in its history, Mill may have been the single most potent shaper of classical Liberal political […]
Héloïse d’Argenteuil An 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
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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
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Cooper: Mens Immota Manet By Gabriel Blanchard Virgil wrote the line mens immota manet lacrimæ volvuntur inanes* about Æneas; but if he had been thinking of Cooper, he
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The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed Epicurus, whose “hedonism” was not hedonistic, let us turn to the problem of suffering, which does
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Malory: Peril, Piety, and Perdition By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. The
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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
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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 Nibelungenlied: A Romance of Disaster and Death By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. The Nibelungenlied, or
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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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