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Greater Means Yet Less Meaning
Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics, examines eudaimonia (happiness or flourishing) as the end or purpose of human life. He does this at first through a series of negatives: Happiness is not… Pursuit of Pleasure because even animals can experience pleasure… Continue reading
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Pursuing Professorship, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: A doctoral student writes: The only reason why there’s a glut of PhD graduates without jobs is that the availability of full-time tenure-track professorships has declined. Why is that? It’s not because of demand. There’s… Continue reading
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▶ Little Mix – Holy Grail/Counting Stars/Smells Like Teen Spirit in the Live Lounge
▶ Little Mix – Holy Grail/Counting Stars/Smells Like Teen Spirit in the Live Lounge – YouTube. Continue reading
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Denutting a Will
As my colleague Bob F. comments, a beautiful takedown of a pundit who has become ever nuttier. Even if Will didn’t have his facts backward, the larger point is that his analysis of transportation choices as a cultural struggle is… Continue reading
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings
“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our… Continue reading
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