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I think it's the coolest thing you folks still write on here.
Okay, maybe not the coolest, but still pretty darn cool. -
Meep.
My daughter, lyric sheet in hands, is singing along to the Cardigans as if her life depended on it. I guess this is the beginning of a new era. :D
And, yes, I'm writing my dissertation. Hence the silence.
Cordially,
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Passages of Augustine bearing on the Cartesian cogito [for Nathan Lande]
1. The Academic Philosophy (De Trin. XV.xii.21-22 ( Read more... ) -
Exunt?
This journal is now more or less closed. I am still tempted once in a while to update with the current going ons, and I use it to monitor (that almost sounds wrong, doesn't it?) the journals of some people I know, but that's it. Besides this, I have moved over to blog at http://www.philalethes. ( Read more... ) -
Welcome.
This journal is friends-only. Want in?
1. Go read the 'Note to potential readers' on my info page. Ascertain that you're okay with that ( Read more... ) -
Why study the history of astronomy?
"We feel no gratitude toward those whose assiduous toil has given us illumination on the subject of the moon, while owing to a curious disease of the human mind we are pleased to enshrine in history records of bloodshed and slaughter, so that persons ignorant of the facts of the cosmos may be acquainted with the crimes of mankind ( Read more... ) -
Thus Spoke Epictetus 03/22/05
“Philosophy does not profess to secure for man any external possession. Otherwise it would be undertaking something that lies outside its proper subject-matter. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, bronze that of the sculptor, just so each man’s own life is the subject-matter of the art of living ( Read more... ) -
Enchiridion 14
Epictetus's EnchiridionChapter 14. Translation by J ( Read more... )
