During quarantine, ideas like eternity and time dilation can go from “abstract speculation” to “oh, I could have told you that.” Eternity can therefore be a very useful point of entry into the great conversation, in which it has (appropriately) been a perennial topic.
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CLT registrations are over 1000%! Due to this high demand, we have transitioned our June 20 CLT to remote proctored. We are also limiting registrations.
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Although his philosophy was never held by more than a small fraction of the Roman people, his work had a major impact on the poets that succeeded him and remained popular for centuries, and went on to influence many eminent scholars.
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The paradoxes in how gravity, light, and atomic nuclear forces operate have prompted subtle theories about not only nature, but reality as such—bending science back towards its parent discipline of philosophy.
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“All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.” — Alexander Woollcott
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Like Tennessee Williams’ Tom Wingfield, Aesop gives us “truth cleverly disguised as fiction,” conveying wisdom imaginatively and indirectly.
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Walker Percy said “You can get all A’s and flunk at life.” This is an ideal time to refocus on what winning at life means.
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A big CLT welcome to Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at John Brown University and the winner of the Hiett Prize!
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The secrets of the past, the present, the future, and the transcendental all appeal to the insatiable human mind. The prophet claims to access them.
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God himself is regularly described and depicted in art as the supreme geometer, creating all things in number, weight, and measure.
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