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Verbal Medicine: Discrimination
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Monday, March 07, 2011. Dr Martin Luther King, Junior dreamed of the day when we judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Character trumps DNA. Skin color cannot make you a good person. Neither can physical excellence. The problem is not di...
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Verbal Medicine: Possessed by Them
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Friday, January 28, 2011. Quoting from Robinson Crusoe. And the true solution of this paragraph,—not any overruling decree of divine wrath, but the tyranny of the sinner's own evil imagination, which he has voluntarily chosen as his master.". Edited by James Marsh. I Want It All.
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Verbal Medicine: Lappy
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Tuesday, June 07, 2011. When it comes to the truth, we are lappy. We insist that the world lay the truth in our laps for us, perfectly presented, with no distractions or imperfections, custom fit to our personal prejudices and habits of thought. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Verbal Medicine: As a Man Is, So He Sees
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Saturday, September 15, 2012. As a Man Is, So He Sees. To] Revd Dr Trusler, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey. 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, August 23, 1799. You certainly Mistake when you say that the Visions of Fancy are not be found in This World. To Me This World is all One...
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Verbal Medicine: Cubist
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Saturday, January 22, 2011. Anyone who tries to create the one true, perfect religion or worldview or philosophy or culture becomes a cubist. We may capture what others miss, but only by distorting reality beyond recognition, and we will still miss most of reality. Thus - the solut...
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Verbal Medicine: We are Lived by Powers We Pretend to Understand
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Saturday, January 29, 2011. We are Lived by Powers We Pretend to Understand. In Memory of Ernst Toller. The shining neutral summer has no voice. To judge America, or ask how a man dies;. And the friends who are sad and the enemies who rejoice. Of one who was egotistical and brave,.
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Verbal Medicine: Cyclops
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Thursday, January 20, 2011. The cyclops is a monster because he sees with only one eye - with only one viewpoint, one perspective. Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 6:15:00 AM PST. Good point, Brian. That whole field of archaeo-paleontology is fascinating. Its not until we look at a ma...
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Verbal Medicine: Politic
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Monday, January 24, 2011. The biggest group the ancient Greeks could feel patriotic about was the polis,. The city-state - that is, the city with its supporting countryside. Bigger than that just didn't feel real to most Greeks. For some Greeks, even the polis. Subscribe to: Post C...
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Verbal Medicine: What Everyone Else Does Not Say in a Book
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Exploring the human condition in daily bites. An experiment in how to address large, complex issues with a long series of small essays - and in how to make philosophically thorny topics more accessible without distorting them. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. What Everyone Else Does Not Say in a Book. I am often asked why, after all, I write in German: nowhere am I read worse than in the Fatherland. But who knows in the end whether I even wish to be read today? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Rick: VISTA...
