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Philosophy: Who Needs It?

Alice O’Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum) was a Russian immigrant who came to America with all the hopes and ambitions that encompassed the American dream. Arriving in New York in 1926, she cried at the Manhattan skyline with what she described as “tears of splendor”. In her newfound homeland, she wrote plays for Broadway, worked as

Written on August 2, 2021 at 3:07 pm, by plato

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Categories: Aristotle

Tags: Aristotle, ayn rand, Objectivism, Philosophy, who needs it?

Women’s Voices can be heard in Stoicism (We just need to listen to them!)

By Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos, Co-Authors of ‘Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in‘ Professor Nancy Sherman recently stated that contemporary forms of Stoicism have become an industry. And a mega-industry at that. While many of these forms have little to do with Stoic philosophy, she is right. It is also clear

Written on July 9, 2021 at 2:51 pm, by Programmer

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Categories: Philosophy, Stoicism, Uncategorized

Tags: agaiatis, Ancient Greek Women, hipparchia, Philosophy, Sparta, Stoicism

On God, An Extract from ‘How To Keep An Open Mind’

Text by Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus (c. 160 – c. 210 AD) translated by Richard Bett, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Since most people have declared that god is a most active cause, let’s first examine god, with this preface—that following ordinary life without opinions, we say that there are gods and we worship gods and

Written on June 8, 2021 at 9:47 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Philosophers

Tags: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient skepticism, God, Philosophy, pyrrhonism, Religion, Skepticism

Can We Make Philosophy Popular?

It didn’t take too long before realising he was famous. Probably the third or fourth group asking for photos tipped us off. Of course we didn’t know who the distinguished gentleman sitting two tables over was at first… a sideways snap, dispatched to a local friend who’s more ‘knowledgeable’ about Spanish celebs, confirmed the star’s

Written on April 26, 2021 at 3:43 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: dead poets society, Francesc Orella, Merli, netflix, Nietzsche, peripatetics, Philosophy

On Angels: Myth and Belief East and West, Part 4

Written by Stefan Sencerz, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Part 1 and part 2 of this series focus on angels in the Western tradition. Part 3 focuses on the Eastern tradition as does the following article, the final installment in the series. There are, of course, some dissimilarities between devas and angels. For one thing, angels

Written on April 20, 2021 at 9:55 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Angels, Uncategorized

Tags: Angels, Buddhism, buddhist philosophy, devas, Hinduism, Philosophy

On Angels: Myth and Belief East and West, Part 2

Written by Stefan Sencerz, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Part 1 of this series can be found here. In Wim Wenders’ movie, “Wings of Desire”, Peter Falk is credited as “himself” but really represents a fallen angel, the angel who had rejected his angelic nature, ceased to be but a spirit, and acquired a human body

Written on April 6, 2021 at 8:26 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Angels

Tags: Angels, Philosophy, theology

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