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Few great visual artists are especially good writers....

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2025/11/24

Few great visual artists are especially good writers. Eugène Delacroix was one of the exceptions The post Few great visual artists are especially good writers. Eugène Delacroix was one of the exceptions appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Peter Singer’s “shallow pond” is less a thought...

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2025/11/24

Peter Singer’s “shallow pond” is less a thought experiment and more an extended gotcha exercise: “Caught you out, didn’t I, you bourgeois oaf”The post Peter Singer’s “shallow pond” is less a thought experiment and more an extended gotcha exercise: “Caught you out, didn’t I, you bourgeois oaf” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Who wrote the gospel of witches? Ancient Italians, a...

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2025/11/24

Who wrote the gospel of witches? Ancient Italians, a 19th-century Tuscan fortune teller, or a well-heeled Brit with family ties to Queen Victoria The post Who wrote the gospel of witches? Ancient Italians, a 19th-century Tuscan fortune teller, or a well-heeled Brit with family ties to Queen Victoria appeared first on Philosophy News.

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philosophybits: “The despotism of custom is...

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2025/11/23

philosophybits: “The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty The post philosophybits: “The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement,… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“A good maxim is too hard for the teeth of time and...

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2025/11/23

“A good maxim is too hard for the teeth of time and whole millennia cannot consume it, even though it serves to nourish every age: it is thus the great paradox of literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the food that is always in season, like salt — though, unlike salt, it never loses its savour.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 168 The post “A good maxim is too hard for the teeth of time and whole millennia cannot consume it, even though it…”

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philosophybits: “Nature does not hurry, yet...

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2025/11/23

philosophybits: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching The post philosophybits: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching appeared first on Philosophy News.

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thirdity: “Reading is ignorant. It begins with what...

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2025/11/23

thirdity: “Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence.” — Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation The post thirdity: “Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of… appeared first on

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philosophybits: “I demand the independence of woman,...

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2025/11/22

philosophybits: “I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.” — Emma Goldman, “Marriage”, The Firebrand, 18 July 1897 The post philosophybits: “I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“The holiness of life that shines forth precisely in...

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2025/11/22

“The holiness of life that shines forth precisely in what is ugliest and most distorted [–] this light does not come to us directly, but only refracted: something that must be thought beautiful solely because it exists, is for that very reason ugly. The concept of life in its abstraction, that is resorted to here, is inseparable from what is repressive and ruthless, truly deadly and destructive. The cult of life for its own sake always boiled down to the cult of these powers. […] Exuberant health is

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philosophybits: “But above all, in order to be, never...

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2025/11/22

philosophybits: “But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.” — Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942 The post philosophybits: “But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.” — Albert Camus, Notebooks,… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“As soon as a power goes beyond the limits assigned...

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2025/11/15

“As soon as a power goes beyond the limits assigned to it by the nature of things, it narrows down the bases on which it rests, renders these limits themselves narrower and narrower. By spreading beyond what it is able to control, it breeds a parasitism, a waste, a confusion which, once they have appeared, increase automatically. By attempting to command where actually it is not in a position to compel obedience, it provokes reactions which it can neither foresee nor deal with. Finally, by wishing

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philosophybits:“Be a philosopher but, amid all your...

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2025/11/15

philosophybits: “Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.” — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding The post philosophybits: “Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.” — David Hume, An… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“A ‘post-truth democracy’ […] would no longer be a...

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2025/11/15

“A ‘post-truth democracy’ […] would no longer be a democracy.” - Jürgen Habermas, Between Naturalism and Religion The post “A ‘post-truth democracy’ […] would no longer be a democracy.” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Forty years after Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence,...

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2025/11/14

Forty years after Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” the effective altruism movement took off. What happened to it? The post Forty years after Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” the effective altruism movement took off. What happened to it? appeared first on Philosophy News.

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When Virginia Woolf met Gertrude Stein: “wheres the...

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2025/11/14

When Virginia Woolf met Gertrude Stein: "wheres the harm in this stupidish, kindly, rather amusing woman” The post When Virginia Woolf met Gertrude Stein: “wheres the harm in this stupidish, kindly, rather amusing woman” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“What matters on a visit to Vegas is how much money...

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2025/11/14

“What matters on a visit to Vegas is how much money you have, how much more you want, and how much you are willing to set on fire” The post “What matters on a visit to Vegas is how much money you have, how much more you want, and how much you are willing to set on fire” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Rejection is always painful. It means learning that...

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2025/11/14

suliqyre:Rejection is always painful. It means learning that someone I’m interested in is not interested in me. Strong feelings necessarily arise. I feel grief over the lost possibility of a valuable connection. I feel sadness over the discovery that I am not what the other wants. I feel anger over being discarded like a useless object.It’s almost impossible not to experience such feelings after being rejected. As I highly value the person doing the rejecting, I also value their judgment of me. And

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philosophybits: “The history of mankind is the...

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2025/11/14

philosophybits: “The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.” — Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks The post philosophybits: “The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.” —… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Disability Through the Lens of Justice

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2025/11/14

2025.11.6 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jessica Begon, Disability Through the Lens of Justice, Oxford University Press, 2023, 290pp., $100.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780198875611. Reviewed by Sara Purinton, Princeton University Jessica Begon aims to give an account of disability that can help guide “how disabled individuals should be justly treated in the public policy of liberal democratic states” (1). Such an account, Begon argues, should track the disadvantages associated

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“The spirit of the moral man is everywhere suffused...

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2025/11/14

“The spirit of the moral man is everywhere suffused with religion; it is his element. And this bright chaos of divine thoughts and feelings we call enthusiasm.” - Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas The post “The spirit of the moral man is everywhere suffused with religion; it is his element. And this bright…” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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