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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
Sep 12
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The totalitarian mind
The cult of a dictator feeds on the dissolution of the self
Sep 5
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August 2024
Edmund Burke v Thomas Paine
With lashings of Joseph de Maistre, the executioner's champion...
Aug 29
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The (French) revolutionary conscience
In France in 1792-94 your 'political identity' decided whether you lived or died
Aug 22
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Homer's psyche
The origins of the 'Western mind' in ancient Greek poetry and mythology
Aug 15
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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
Aug 8
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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.
Aug 1
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July 2024
The grief of Cicero
How the greatest mind of his age diagnosed his depression and overcame it, leaving the finest work of consolation ever composed.
Jul 25
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Buddha and the end of craving
He came down from Nirvana to teach the path to selflessness, free of want and desire. How Buddha remade the consciousness of humankind.
Jul 18
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Akhenaten: deicidal madman or the first to conceive of a single god?
The 'heretic pharaoh' replaced the Egyptian pantheon with one god and may have inspired the monotheism of the Hebrew tribes
Jul 11
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Thomas Hobbes' forever war
Humankind must descend into anarchy unless governed by a tyrant, argued the English philosopher. Has democracy disproved Hobbes' diagnosis?
Jul 4
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