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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Why? and How to?

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April 18

Friday, April 19, 2013

The scholar who thinks but does not create is like the cloud which does not give rain.

-EASTERN WISDOM

(From Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom, April 18)

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Philosophy of History

Sunday, December 16, 2012

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Philosophy and History

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Philosophy is its time grasped in thought. –GWF Hegel

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Civics 101

Sunday, December 16, 2012

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.

–Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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Through the Looking Glass

Monday, October 15, 2012

Perspective on the Past

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Difference

Thursday, August 25, 2011
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
–L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)

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What is an Information Society?

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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Gadget

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

“[T]he more a man becomes dependent on the gadgets whose smooth functioning assures him a tolerable life at the material level, the more estranged he becomes from an awareness of his inner reality.”

Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society (1952)

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Memory

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Although it helps, memory is not the same thing as history.

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