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bruegel: cosmic frailties
Much like Michelangelo, Bruegel created a symbolic colossus from the material of the human figure. But the two artists’ colossi resemble one another only in the monumentality of their weight a breadth. Michelangelo idealized man as the supreme intellectual and … Continue reading →
spinoza: two against nature
Alfred Rosenberg on the couch. The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom opens up the old debate as to how can one reconcile reason and revelation given that both are imbued with some unsatisfactory elements. Maimonides made a valiant stab to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Baruch Spinoza, Howard Jacobson, irvin yalom, Leo Strauss, Maimonides, Yalom The Spinoza Problem
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napoleon black magic: roads to moscow
The “hidden hand” gesture, international democracy based on property law, and the coming of an age of reason and enlightenment. A golden road leading to the seven pillars of the gates of wisdom?… The promise of the end of serfdom, … Continue reading →
spinoza of supermarket street: keeping the rules?
Imperfection. Logic, and a strong dose of rationality dictates that God, according to the Jewish definition, is non existent, or at best, absent when needed most. Yet mixed with this certainty of doubt is often a personal belief, a sort … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Martin Buber, Winslow Homer
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copernicus: voyage to some distant planets
Copernicus argued that the earth was merely one of several planets that circled the sun. It was the Copernican Revolution and it displaced man from the center of the universe. It was the first flowering of the first stirrings of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Copernican revolution, Copernicus, David Hume, Emile Durkheim, Geocentrism, Jack Hirschowitz marathon juggler, Johannes Kepler, Kierkegaard, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nicholas Copernicus, Tycho Brahe
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copernicus: suddenly the heavens were not perfect
The Copernican Revolution. Moving the earth away from the center of the universe had its consequences… …the heretical runaway monk and pantheistic philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600, though not for accepting Copernicanism. But his death … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Copernican revolution, Copernicus, Geocentrism, Heliocentrism, Johannes Kepler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Kline, Nicholas Copernicus, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Tycho Brahe, William Gilbert scientist
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darwin: doubting the fixity of species
…The folklore of scientific invention and discovery has left no striking tale of the revelation to Darwin of the clue of the origin of species, like Newton’s apple, Stephenson’s kettle lid, or Galileo dropping weights from the leaning tower of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, Frans Snyders, George Eliot, J. B. Lamarck, John Bowlby, Joseph Hooker, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Bayle, Raden Saleh, Roelandt Jacobszoon Savery
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fish for souls: bait, hook and stinker
Graven images. Idols and idolatry. It was in part, the spiritual spark that contributed to a series of incidents that were intrinsic to an underlying conflict of the Thirty Years’ War. Calvinist fundamentalists, a form of Christian Brotherhood, stormed churches … Continue reading →
start training and stop quarreling
Joseph Flavius writing in the time of King Herod described the jews as a fit and hardy people who partook in athletic activities much to the delight of King Herod who liked the idea of a fit workforce. In terms … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Charlie Chaplin, Donald Sanford Sprinter, Fernando Pessoa, Israel Olympic Athletes, Israel Olympic Committee, Jewish athletes, Josephus Flavius, madame pickwick art blog, Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Rapahael Bergman, The Wandering Jew, Woody Allen
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Priesthood of protest: dissent through the nine-hole
Church of the holy secular. Saints and prophets of the bibles of dissent.Strap-on sanctity. The purity of political sophistication. In part much can be blamed on Spinoza for this fine splitting of hairs that engrosses much of the dissent industry, … Continue reading →