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Anthony Galluzzo I Victor Frankenstein, the titular character and "Modern Prometheus" of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, drawing on his biochemical studies at the University of Ingolstadt, creates life by reanimating the dead. While the gothic elements of Shelley's narrative ensure its place, or those of its twentieth-century film adaptations, in the pantheons of popular horror,... |
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rsbakker.wordpress.com
"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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syntheticzero.net
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from beneath us then the question is "what is left to believe in". Even deeper than this crisisinbelief is the crisisofbelief itself that issues from the... |
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perell.com
David explores how Christianity forms the basis of Western thought, even among the non-religious. Read here. |
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