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rsbakker.wordpress.com
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| | | | | "Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past," Yuval Noah Harari writes. "It enables us to turn our heads this way and that, and to begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine" (59). Thus does the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of... | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | Abstract Personal identity views (closed, empty, open) serve in philosophy the role that conservation laws play in physics. They recast difficult problems in solvable terms, and by expanding our horizon of understanding, they likewise allow us to conceive of new classes of problems. In this context, we posit that philosophy of personal identity is relevant... | |
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | | | I too would like the university to be a safe space, but a safe space for rational argument about the pressing issues of our time. If a university stands for anything, surely it stands for that idea of truth, as a guiding light in our darkness and the source of real knowledge... (essay by Roger Scruton) | |
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antilogicalism.com
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| | | Feuerbach's seminal work, The Essence of Christianity, marks a turning point in the critique of religion. In this book, he posits that theology is, at its core, anthropology. Religion, according to Feuerbach, is a projection of human nature and desires onto an imagined divine being. God, he argues, is nothing more than the idealized abstraction... | ||