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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

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Oliver Cromwell

Aan English general and statesman who led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charle...

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile who coined the term "scrapbooks".

Giordano Bruno

An Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic...

R. J. Hollingdale

R. J. Hollingdale

A British biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of ...

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and a Founding Father of the United States.

Sylvia Plath

American poet, novelist and short-story writer known for her books The Colossus and Other Poems (...

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Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Part of what makes Stoicism fascinating to study is that three of its most well-known practitioners ranged widely in terms of where they stood in society. Think of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire holding one of the most powerful positions in the world. Think of Seneca, who was an adviser to an emperor, renowned playwright and one of the richest people in the Roman Empire. And then there is Epictetus, on the complete opposite, who was born as a slave. That’s what makes Stoicism so powerful: it can provide timeless principles to help us in both good and bad fortune, no matter...

The Crimean War as a technological enterprise

The Crimean War as a technological enterprise

royalsocietypublishing.org

Discussions of the Crimean War (1853–56) often emphasize its leaders’ military and political incompetence and logistic failures, which led to heavy losses both on the battlefield and to disease. This portrayal ignores the significant entrepreneurial and technological novelties that emerged from the war. Begun and fought for the most part along traditional lines, the Crimean War became a stage for the display of innovative technologies ranging from telegraphy to photography, railways to steamships, and ironclads to sanitary hospitals. It became a business opportunity for entrepre...

Desire and the Good in Plotinus

Desire and the Good in Plotinus

tandfonline.com

Plotinus calls the first principle the One and the Good. According to Plotinus, ‘Good’ is an appropriate name for the One because the One is that which all things desire. Since he says that the One is beyond knowledge, beyond language, beyond intellect, and beyond being, however, what philosophical evidence can he provide for his claim that the One is that which all desire? In this article I offer some philosophical evidence, aside from mystical union with the One, for why ‘the Good’ is an appropriate name for the One, and for why calling the One ‘Good’ is not at odds with the f...

The Fall of Nate Silver

The Fall of Nate Silver

newrepublic.com

Did he change, or did we? For weeks now, Nate Silver has been morphing before our eyes into exactly the kind of bloviator he made his name mocking. Tired perhaps of the slow and predictable business of prognostication—the elections so far apart from each other, the long months of waiting and lousy web traffic in between—the founder of data journalism outlet FiveThirtyEight has transformed his Twitter account into a font of provocatively bad opinions. Some of Nate’s Takes have touched on his speciality in data-based political forecasting: He has told us, for instance, not to get ...

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

The Crimean War as a technological enterprise

Desire and the Good in Plotinus

The Fall of Nate Silver

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The Music Plays On — Claudio Arrau

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The Music Plays On — Claudio Arrau

I have already mentioned the great Chilean pianist, Claudio Arrau, in my post about Beethoven’s Piano Sonata №30, Op. 109. While Arrau was considered one of the greatest interpreters of Beethoven, he was also considered one of the greatest interpreters of Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann...

It Happened Here: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

Medicine

It Happened Here: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

When Elizabeth Blackwell was a 24-year-old teacher, she visited a close family friend dying of uterine cancer who spoke of how she had suffered at the hands of male doctors during her medical treatment.“Why not study medicine?” the friend asked. “If I could have been treated by a lady doct...

McCoy Tyner, Groundbreaking Pianist Of 20th Century Jazz, Dies At 81

Music

McCoy Tyner, Groundbreaking Pianist Of 20th Century Jazz, Dies At 81

McCoy Tyner, a pianist whose deep resonance, hammering attack and sublime harmonic invention made him a game-changing catalyst in jazz and beyond, died Friday, March 6, at his home in New Jersey. His death was confirmed by his manager. No cause of death was given. He was 81.Tyner was the l...