Category: Substack
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Roberto Rossellini’s Socrates
Substack latest. The philosopher at the hour of death.
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Thoughts in and of Ancient Lycia
From my Turkish journal, 22 February 1996. Leader of the Stack.
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Edith Stein: Faith, Reason, and Method
Top o' the Stack. August 9th is the feast day of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross in the Catholic liturgy. She is better known to philosophers as Edith Stein (1891-1942), brilliant Jewish student of and assistant to Edmund Husserl, philosopher in her own right, Roman Catholic convert, Carmelite nun, victim of the Holocaust at…
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Would Schpenhauer Allow Comments . . .
. . . on his weblog, The Scowl of Minerva? Find out at Substack.
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‘Post-Truth’
A buzz word much bandied about in 2016, usually in connection with Donald J. Trump. Top o' the Stack. You will learn something from this piece if you have an attention span. Too much twit-shit and your span may shrink to a point. You may transmogrify into a tweeting twit whose brain is fit only…
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The Christian View of Death and Immortality
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Emmett Till
Top of the Stack. Emmett Till is back in the news. This being the case, the inevitable comparisons of Till with Trayvon Martin will start up again. My purpose is to provide you with some background so that you can appreciate just how inane the comparisons are that assimilate the defensible killing of Martin by…
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The Professor-Student Non-Aggression Pact
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Susan Sontag on the Art of the Aphorism
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Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism
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To Write Well, Read Well
The example of William James. Excerpt: But what makes James' writing good? It has a property I call muscular elegance. The elegance has to do in good measure with the cadence, which rests in part on punctuation and sentence structure. Note the use of the semi-colon and the dash. These punctuation marks are falling into disuse, but…
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Krauthammer’s Fundamental Law Repealed
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