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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
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Cavell reads Hamlet as a drama about separateness. We are separate from both the world and other minds because they are different from us. Knowledge of their existence is always vulnerable to the insinuation of doubt. To try to defeat this separateness is pathological; to come to terms with it, according to Cavell’s reading of Hamlet, requires two
... See moreNatalie Carnes • Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions)
Plato feared the power of entertainment, the power of the senses to overthrow the mind, the power of emotion to obliterate reason. No admirer of popular democracy, Plato said that the enlightened or elite had a duty to educate those bewitched by the shadows on the cave wall, a position that led Socrates to quip: “As for the man who tried to free th
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Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Psychological egoism is a conspiracy theory of human motivation, and about as credible.
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Accordingly, liberalism was correct in counseling people to follow their hearts rather than the dictates of some priest or party apparatchik. However, soon computer algorithms might be able to give you better counsel than human feelings. As the Spanish Inquisition and the KGB give way to Google and Baidu, “free will” likely will be exposed as a myt
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