Videos: Philosophers in 90 Minutes
Nietzsche
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Descartes
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Do you ever wonder how people can spend so much time chasing dollars? And why are right-wing Christians, particularly, who are supposed to be all about Jesus (who advised the rich to give away riches to the poor), instead so into the politics of enriching the rich? Why are right-wingers largely against any mandate of [...]
Babette’s Feast by Gabriel Axel (Danish)
Raise the Red Lantern by Zhang Yimou (Chinese)
(and others starring Gong Li: Curse of the Golden Flower, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shanghai Triad)
Queen Margot by Patrice Chéreau (French)
Let the Right One In by Tomas Alfredson (Swedish)
A Chef in Love by Nana Dzhordzhadze (Georgian)
Eat [...]
“The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is Man? For the purpose of argument related to gender roles, Man as the pure gender ideal, is both hyper-masculine and the epitome of self-leadership and self-ownership, [...]
Wherever
By C. J. Sellers
On the door it says what to do to survive
But we were not born to survive
Only to live ~W. S. Merwin, The River Of Bees
“Unlucky weather—this—for an exodus,”
quips the dogma-spouting ol’ granpa
whose extra long gray beard lends an air of [...]
“Put-in-Bay O.” reads the sporty flag that hangs behind
the generations seated neatly: my great-grandma and pa
come a long ride in their best for this–the wedding and
now photo of their oldest daughter, Anne, with Claude.
Grandpa Ira–shy-eyed farmer under bowler hat–wears black,
but bright seersucker, blue-eyed Claude–trolley-runner–sports his
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Lhasa succumbed to breast cancer after a twenty-one month long struggle, which she faced with courage and determination.
