“Only describe, don’t explain” Ludwig Wittgenstein Sir James George Frazer’s Golden Bough is an anthropological …
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As if the world doesn’t have enough experience of religious violence throughout its history to …
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“Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do” Ernest Hemingway, …
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“It is highly probable that but for the Arabs, modern European civilization would never have …
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Zion refers to Jerusalem and is the goal of the general desire of Jews to …
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Philosophy opposite theology This is a chapter from my book Socrates – moral philosophy in everyday life “We must not examine who said it, but whether it is true or not”161c Plato, Charmides “I am the way and the truth and the life; no one can come to the Father …
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This is a chapter from my book Socrates – moral philosophy in everyday life “We said there were two treatments that might be used in the tending for any particular thing, whether body or soul: one, making pleasure the aim in our dealings with it; the other, working for what …
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“I am Death, who makes everyone equal” Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, ‘Godfather Death’ The brothers Grimm did not write for children. Their goal was to offer an exhilarative reading to adults at the end of a tiring day. They would wander in 19th century Germany recording folk tales and myths, …
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Sapardanis Kostas The unexamined life is not worth living
