HarveyAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown All subsequent medicine owes William Harvey an inestimable debt. ❧ Full name and title: William Harvey [wĭł-yàm häŕ-vē; see our pronunciation guide for […]
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The Great Conversation: Hospitality By Travis Copeland As we gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, we enter a tradition far broader and older than any one nation or holiday. Hospitality
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DickensAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The work of Dickens is at once politically radical and warmly domestic. ❧ Full name and title: Charles John Huffam Dickens [chäŕłz
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Student Essay: Without and Within By Brodie Crowder Sawyer and Finn present not only two distinct characters, but two whole modes of constructing narrative. Conflict is perhaps the
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The Great Conversation:Opposition By Gabriel Blanchard Opposition is one of the richest ideas in the Great Conversation. Opposite-ness is a particular species of the broader genus of difference.
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MontaigneAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Belief and skepticism strike us as opposites, but paradox is a familiar element in belief. ❧ Full name and title: Michel Eyquem,
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Student Essay: Superstition and Religion in Huckleberry Finn By Catherine Gath Twain’s portrait of what religion and superstition are to Finn indicate a subtle relationship between the two.
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The Great Conversation: Idea—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The pendulum of Western thought continues to swing between Plato and Aristotle, yet from radically different pivots … Go here
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Of Mind and Hearth By Travis Copeland As the body needs an earthly home to rest in, the soul needs an intellectual one, and for much the same
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JamesAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown The work of William James has shaped all later discussions of academic fields from psychotherapy to mysticism. ❧ Full name: William James
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