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Essay 2009 |
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Darwin at 200, The Origin of Species at 150 Ideas like Darwin’s, spread as they do because they are so powerful at explaining the world. |
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Two Concepts of Liberty: An Analysis of Berlin's Seminal Essay Sir Isaiah Berlin, in his 1958 essay and inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty," expands on the ideals of liberty that were synthesized and inculcated by earlier political philosophers. The essay initiates and details an outline of an idealized liberty with two distinct branches: positive and negative. Although the essay is a bit controversial, producing such detractors as Charles Taylor, this seminal piece has staying power and can only be enhanced, not nullified. Henry C. Alphin Jr |
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Gresham’s Law in the 21st Century In our current society, information is the currency . . . Joshua Finnell |
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FREE FROM THE WORLD, FREE IN THE WORLD The man’s freedom rises from original biological processes. But, the definition and the concrete realization of the freedom have a historic character. It can also occur that our freedom releases itself completely from whatever determined content. This represents a dogmatic pretence. Hegel takes this risk, defining it “sentimental totality”. On the contrary, Kant poses the question of subsistence of an unconditionalness a priori, previous and independant from the relationship with the world. Lastly, the modern condition of freedom sends us to the relationship between individual and society. Andrea Amato |
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Branding the Arts In fact, Warhol’s Coca-Cola bottles and Campbell’s Soup cans might actually discourage consumption, and not through their alleged statements about ubiquitous images. |
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The Symphony of Personal and Social Life Thinking life in the abstract and assimilating it to music is almost a limitless exercise: . . . |
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Sentimental Deception When Ralph Waldo Emerson came to the Adirondacks in August, 1858 . . . |
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Several years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett wrote a book by the same title that in fact set out to prove the opposite thesis. . . |
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