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Tag Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche
petronius redux
Petronius’s Satyricon and Fellini’s film version. Two versions of a pagan world as it was in Nero’s time and may be in ours… For Fellini, Satyricon is not crude melodrama or pure fantasy, but a view of paganism as it … Continue reading
cannabis: our reefer sadness
Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading
Judgements of Joan
Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since, the Maid has continued to provoke anger and adoration, skpticism and awe… “You have heard the last of her,” says her Executioner to the Earl of Warwick in … Continue reading
how much is that slave in the window?
As a commodity, slaves created peculiar problems for the merchant. Apparently in the larger cities there were a few shops where slaves could be bought: in Rome in Nero’s time they were concentrated near the temple of Castor in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capua slave market, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Leon Gerome, Josephus Flavius, Lionel Casson, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman slave markets, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Greek stoic, Slavery Ancient Rome
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avoiding the seductive charms of despair
“Returning form Syracuse?” ….Four hundred years ago, the French “politiques” advanced the novel, and totally subversive notion of the time that people of different religious persuasions could live together, in peace, in the same country and under the same sovereign. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged daniel ludwig, Ernest Juenger, Frank Stella art, Friedrich Nietzsche, friedrich schelling, gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Hegel Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Oswald Spengler, Otto Dix, The Enlightenment, Voltaire
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sunset of a new dawn
The Enlightenment. Its the basis of our secular society and ints values underpin much of the consumer economy. Its values have dominated the public sphere since the dawn of the industrial age. This liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought has … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Edward Gibbon, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Howson, Richard Dawkins, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire
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enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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