#Aristotle

Baldaccio d'Anghiari

Autiauto

THREAD on Strauss’ Epilogue: I promised awhile ago a thread on why one should read Leo Strauss. I’ll probably make a more general thread on that, but 1st, here is

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp: why didn't the ancient Greeks write science fiction?That's a good question. No, really. Come this way... Drama, poetry, rhetoric: the ancient Greeks not only created wonderous art

Really But Not Really A Senator This Time Person

sayer_of_stuff

By... not exactly popular demand, but certainly popular accidental suggestion, here's some Astronomy History with a focus on America, while drunk! HAPPY 4TH!https://twitter.com/sayer_of_stuff/status/1279594826661539841?s=20 As long as t

Nightmare Vision

GodCloseMyEyes

some books from this year: gods of pegana, lord dunsany. between this & the book of wonders, I preferred this. a primitive religious mythology described in a typical pantheon. sorrows

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

Alan Moore famously said the whole reason Watchmen was supposedly "revolutionary" for a comic book was that it was just a normal storyHe wrote it like a regular novel -

B. Harun Küçük

bharunkucuk

Hi all, I am doing an on-going mega-thread for those of you who may want to use Science without Leisure in the classroom. The book has something for everyone, from

Mrs.King - Building Digital Skills & Assets

RealMrsKing

Using Mind Mapping to Boost your Creativity Everyone get's stuck at times, but using Mind Mapping you can break free and escape: Writer's blockProcrastinationPlanning fatigueLet's check it out in this...Thread!

Martin de Azpilcueta 5’5” 130 IQ

ByzCat

My defense of the American War of Independence:A lot of trads are very critical of America because they see a rebellion of republicans away from a monarch. I think the

Tony 🐸🇨🇦🇬🇷

Tenacious_Greek

I was today years old when I spent several pleasant hours learning the following from assorted antifa/lgbt nuts: 1 - if a right winger commits a crime, it's fair to

Constantinopolitan John of Salisbury

SalisburyJohnof

Philosophers in hell, a potentially colloborative thread: Timothy Williamson: is an envatted brain. Periodically reminded of this, only to forget it shortly afterwards. Hilary Putnam: exiled to twin earth, forever

Melissa Turkington

Leftovers_Movie

If you're a new screenwriter, you may wonder what readers look for in a script. If you're like many, you've taken to the internet to get some opinions from Seasoned

Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن

EveKeneinan

Let’s talk about moral relativism, by way of philosopher James Rachels. Point 1: The main argument FOR moral relativism, and usually the ONLY argument for moral relativism, is INVALID and

Norbert Wiener Kreis

carl_b_sachs

As promised, some thoughts on what I advertised as "Sellarsian cybernetic communism": a meandering thread. I shall start with my musings on what Sellars meant by "the myth of the

Geraldine

everywhereist

I haven't seen this in like twenty years and I have comments. First thirty seconds of this movie and we've seen Bruce Willis in an airport smoking and on a

Chris Dashiell

cdashiell

Slavery went unchallenged in surviving literature since ancient times. Aristotle, for instance, just assumed it was the natural order. Enslaved people were against it, of course, but if they left

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 1/ Though "bean counters" are employed

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