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  • How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

    Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

  • The Book of Life

    A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing… Continue reading

    The Book of Life

  • New Domain

    After two years of mulling it over, I have decided that Reason & Existenz Blog should have a domain that reflects me as the author. I have had a special devotion to Karl Jaspers who was the teacher of my… Continue reading

    New Domain

  • The Matter of Anti-Philosophy

    Massimo Pigliucci criticizes Lawrence Krauss and the current habit of physicists who speak despairingly of philosophy. Very much worth the read. I give you here a quote he pulls from Einstein in defense of philosophizing… I fully agree with you… Continue reading

  • Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”

    A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book… Continue reading

  • The Great Chasm Twixt Rich & Poor

    I highly recommend to all my brothers & sisters of the ether that you pay some heed to this week’s issue of The Economist beginning with this piece… Disparities in wealth are less visible in Americans’ everyday lives today than they… Continue reading

  • American Self-Making: More of the Long Con

    The Long Con is the sting we pull on ourselves, where we become our own mark which might be why we are able to get others to play along: the self-con generates profound belief by others because we are so… Continue reading

  • Ancient Peoples

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A group of ancient history enthusiasts blogging about people and artefacts from all over the ancient… See on ancientpeoples.tumblr.com Continue reading

  • The Most Deadly Drug: Alcohol

    In 2009, David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist who served as chair of Britains Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD, published a paper in a medical journal that offered a provocative thesis: horseback riding, he wrote, was more dangerous than… Continue reading

  • The War that Never Ends: Thucydides & Plato

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