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Monday, November 13, 2017

Kant keep up

We're running a day late in CoPhi, today catching up with Kant et al...



Schopenhauer & Nietzsche slides... & others: slideshare.net, search "Osopher"

Hegel's philosophy of history made the Sunday Times yesterday-
Like many top intellectuals the world over, I’ve been thinking about the shape of history itself. Spurred on by the emergence of unexpected events and personalities onto the world stage, I have been cogitating deeply on the questions of where we’ve been and where we’re heading... (continues)

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It’s the birthday of Saint Augustine, born in Tagaste, Numidia, a part of North Africa that is now Algeria (354). He converted to Christianity as an adult and wanted nothing more than to settle down to a quiet life of thinking about theology and writing books. But when he moved to the port town of Hippo to set up a monastery, he was forced to take over the duties of the local bishop, and he regretted for the rest of his life that he had to spend so much of his time delivering sermons and running a parish, when he could have devoted all that time to writing...

It’s the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson (books by this author), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1850)... Around the same time that Treasure Island was published, Stevenson woke up one morning and told his family that he did not want to be disturbed until he had finished writing a story that had come to him in a dream. It took him three days to write it, but when he read the story aloud to his wife, she said it was too sensationalistic. So he sat down and rewrote the whole thing. By the end of the week, he was fairly happy with the result, which he called Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885)... He said, “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” And, “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” WA

And the great Buck O'Neil was born on this day in 1911. He stole the show at my Baseball in Literature and Culture conference presentation, time before last... 
"How can a you hit and think at the same time?"
"I always thought that record would stand until it
was broken."
"In baseba...

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