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A Life Philosophic is a little late this week because I’ve been back to the home I’ve never lived in…
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A truce in the truth wars?
What unites both sides in the old “truth wars” is more important than what divides them.
ReadFriction-free fictions
In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche described what he called “The Last Men”. These are human beings who have overcome all[…]
ReadThinking through film and music
The way in which film and music explore ideas is very different from the way in which philosophers do so, verbally and logically. But they are still doing philosophy.
ReadThe too-believable truth
The culture of self-promotion has turned many who in other times would have been modest and self-effacing into boasters and braggers. They take things about themselves which are technically true and make them sound more impressive than they are. Here are four of the tropes I find most grating.
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