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One other oddly big thing happened to Sam at the beginning of his junior year. Completely out of the blue, a twenty-five-year-old lecturer in philosophy at Oxford University named Will Crouch* reached out and asked to meet with him. Sam never learned how the guy had found him—probably from the writing Sam had been doing on various utilitarian messa
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Here are the writing prompts from my Senior Year English class. I wrote a typewriter essay on this in more detail here, and am considering re-answering these throughout the year.
What is the difference between a civilized person and a savage? Which is more natural? (9/12)
What are your plans for senior year? What do you hope to achieve? (9/13)
Why do
Le Combat avec le démon : Kleist- Hölderlin- Nietzsche (Biblio essais t. 5355) (French Edition)
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Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
experimental : we say someone is experimental if they’re open to try weird things, but the word experiment is so rooted in the scientific method. It’s an interesting tension. Ultimately, we should be experimental with our psyche and virtues. The only way to advance upwards through tiers of self-knowledge is to hypothesis virtues to live by and then
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