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• Corporations and the Nazi Regime

  

  It is apparent, 90 years after the beginnings of the Nazi period, that large corporations played an important and lamentable role in Nazi power and... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2021 SOCIETY

• Does Seneca Have a System of Philosophy?

  

  Seneca's epistles to Lucilius in Letters from a Stoic represent a huge contribution to Stoic philosophy, filled with examples and aphorisms that illuminate... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2021 SOCIETY

• Avineri on Marx as Social Democrat

  

  Shlomo Avineri is one of the interpreters of Marx's thought for whom I have had a great deal of respect since the publication of Social and Political Thought... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2021 SOCIETY

• A Brief Senecian Reflection the Humble Kidney Stone

  

  A kidney stone is an affliction. It is a source of pain, it makes sleep impossible, it is a misery that makes thought about anything else impossible. And its... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2021 SOCIETY

• Buffy the Existentialist Vampire Slayer

  

  Here is a hard question. Can the creators of television shows and other kinds of pop culture be understood sometimes to pose fundamental and important... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2021 SOCIETY

• Technology and Culture in Antiquity

  

  image: survey instruments, 1728The history of technology was sometimes approached as a self-contained field of study. A more fruitful approach in the past thirt... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2021 SOCIETY

• Technology in the Ancient World: Time

  

  We don't think of the ancient world as being one that was rich in technological innovation or progress. And yet in a number of areas, there were very significan... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2021 SOCIETY

• LaCapra on the History, Memory, and the Holocaust

  

  Dominick LaCapra's History and Memory after Auschwitz is an important contribution to the topic of "history's responsibility in front of the Holocaust". Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2021 SOCIETY

• Learning and Engagement

  

  John Dewey's Democracy and Education is over a century old. But it still seems strikingly modern, even avant-garde, when compared to many pedagogical practices... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2021 SOCIETY

• Compassion and the Moral Emotions (Nussbaum)

  

  image: Philoctetes injured on LemnosHow can the atrocities of the twentieth century lead to the creation of a better version of humanity? Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2021 SOCIETY

• Organizational Evil

  

  image: IG Farben headquartersA number of posts have confronted the historical realities of atrocities, genocide, and cruelty on a massive scale. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2021 SOCIETY

• The Antikythera Mechanism

  

  When we think about scientific and technological knowledge in the ancient world, one generally thinks of philosophy and a little bit of pre-scientific musing... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2021 SOCIETY

• Evil and the History of Philosophy (Neiman)

  

  As recent posts suggest, I am interested in finding appropriate ways of rethinking the philosophy of history so as to provide us with greater ability to confron... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2021 SOCIETY

• Wickham on "feudalism"

  

  Chris Wickham is perhaps Britain’s leading historian of European history between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2021 SOCIETY

• Thinking About Evil in History (Kekes)

  

  I am currently grappling with how to bring the horrendous events of the twentieth century into the philosophy of history. After doing a lot of reading about... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 SOCIETY

• Epicurean Advertising?

  

  image: Epicurus inscription at Oenoanda (credit Jack A. Waldron (link))In The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton offers an interesting observation... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2021 SOCIETY

• Making Sense of Atrocities

  

  」Reading Wickham’s The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 has made me aware of something outside his storyline: the normal, routine, and... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 SOCIETY

• Frankish Kings and Mynyddog's Gold ...

  

  Chris Wickham's The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 is a fascinating book to read, if you are interested in how various strands of... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2021 SOCIETY

• Does Philosophy Offer Consolation?

  

  image: Martin BuberAlain de Botton's Consolations of Philosophy poses a bit of a puzzle. Why "consolations"? And why philosophy? How does philosophy come into... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2021 SOCIETY

• The Late Roman Empire and What Came Next ...

  

  There is a great deal of drama in the fairly limited ideas we have today about the passing of the Roman Empire, the consolidation of "barbarian" kingdoms, and... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2021 SOCIETY