The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part I
What is wisdom?
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The Great Conversation: Subject
Education is debatable: that much is old news. But what is the stuff being debated?
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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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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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Lessons From Purgatory
Lessons From Purgatory By Autumn Kennedy In its own capacity, Dante’s Purgatorio resembles Virgil, shepherding its readers up the sacred mountain in this life as he shepherded its
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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 Great Conversation: Education—Part II
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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The Great Conversation: Education—Part I
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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The Great Conversation: Physics
The Great Conversation: Physics By Gabriel Blanchard Under the seemingly-unassuming name “Physics Dept.,” colleges all over the country house scholars who would unveil what may be the almost-literal
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The Great Conversation: Government
The Great Conversation: Government By Gabriel Blanchard It began to be said several years ago that “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” were becoming a more appealing
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