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Confucius: the first humanist
The sage gave a vicious world its first code of ethics. Many listened, few acted.
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God's capitalists
When obscene wealth offers a path to heaven
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The totalitarian mind
The cult of a dictator feeds on the dissolution of the self
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Edmund Burke v Thomas Paine
With lashings of Joseph de Maistre, the executioner's champion...
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The (French) revolutionary conscience
In France in 1792-94 your 'political identity' decided whether you lived or died
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Homer's psyche
The origins of the 'Western mind' in ancient Greek poetry and mythology
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Ecstasy in the Nunneries
Hildegard of Bingen was the most celebrated of the female mystics who experienced an intense sensual longing for Jesus Christ
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The ineffable Tao
The Tao finds worth in worthlessness, use in uselessness, beauty in ugliness.. The Tao was a source of yin and yang, the reconciliation of opposites.
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Who made our minds?
Who made our minds?
Whose ideas contain us? My weekly essay probes the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years. I'll explore the ideas you haven't time to explore, the thinkers behind our thoughts - free to your inbox every Thursday.
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