Learning and the Soul
In Plato’s Republic the allegory of the cave reveals that each of us has a unique capacity to learn.
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Influential writing old and new.
Nietzsche on the Body
The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd.
Why are we here?
In 1977 a team of NASA scientists sent two spacecraft into the distant reaches of our universe.
On Inequality
What is the Origin of the Inequality among Mankind? Jean Jacques Rousseau’s now classic work, ask the question most powerfully.
We need a new Romanticism
Neuroscience was part of the dinner conversation in my family, often a prerequisite for truth. Want to talk about art? Not without neuroscience.
This is Water
This is Water is a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace on 21st May 2005 at Kenyon College.
Learning changes you
Higher education has now joined the growing list of subjects about which it is increasingly difficult to have an informed public argument.
Most people don’t grow up
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
The dancing species: how moving together in time helps make us human
Dancing is a human universal, but why? It is present in human cultures old and new; central to those with the longest continuous histories.
This is possibly the most right wing cabinet in modern history
An article the Guardian pulled written by Frankie Boyle
