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Modern Academia And Its Conceits
I have been motivated to write a couple future posts by a book I recently read, Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A.C. Grayling. In place of a proper “introduction”, he belittles Wittgenstein’s prowess and contributions, as well as somehow … Continue reading
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Tagged ac grayling, academia, action, canon, college, decision, domination, education, intelligence, knowledge, learning, literary criticism, new criticism, Philosophy, postmodernism, power, scholarship, university, Wittgenstein
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Correlation – First Truths
Gottfried Leibniz was a contemporary of Spinoza (they are called the two greatest rationalists after Descartes – read correctly either way) who had reviewed the Ethics but did not agree philosophically on the grounds that it contradicted Orthodox belief. His … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, atom, body, conception, contingent, contradiction, creation, criticism, essentialism, God, independant, infinity, Leibniz, morality, necessary, negation, Philosophy, scholarship, soul, space, Spinoza, substance, time, truth, vacuum
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