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lucretius:agonizing doubts of logic and reason
The clash of major and minor keys is heard throughout his poem, The Nature of Things; again and again, in a passage that opens with serene confidence in Epicurean logic and the liberating power of the intellect , Lucretius will … Continue reading →
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Tagged alain de botton, Baruch Spinoza, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens atheism, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Lodewijk de Vadder, Lodewyk de Vadder, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, rebecca goldstein, Wystan Auden
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normality of silent running: adventures in immanence
Blame it on Spinoza. Spinoza provided the raw material for the abandonment of Jewish messianism and what had been the conventional and traditional religious conceptions that had defined jewish life in the diaspora.Spinoza was the architect of liberal democracy and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albert Einstein, amira hass, Ariel Sharon, Ayn Rand, Baruch Spinoza, David Ben Gurion, david ives playwright, Franz Kafka, Isaac Bashevis Singer, israel bds, joseph klausner, Leo Strauss, Martin Buber, noam braslavsky, Noam Chomsky, rebecca goldstein, Richard Halpern, Rick Salutin, samuel hirszenberg, Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes
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