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@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de
2024-04-21 15:21:57

Existentialism Is a Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existentialism Is a Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre(Please note that Sartre consistently speaks of “man”. Ironically, Simone de Beauvoir’s partner of 51 years is unable or unwilling …

@greeneralia@masto.ai
2024-02-18 13:11:06

MUCH pithier explanation of the difference between #existence and #essence than Jean-Paul #Sartre's 'L'etre et le neant' 😋
“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming g…

@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de
2024-04-26 13:13:05

The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch #4), by Michael Connelly
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The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch #4), by Michael Connelly
The Last Coyote by Michael ConnellyMy rating: 5 of 5 starsFrom Sartre to Connelly: Last year, at a meeting, a colleague told me she had found my website and mentioned how diverse my reading was. I …

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2024-02-04 16:01:46

"Beyond his contributions to logic and mathematics, Russell was a passionate fighter for peace and nuclear disarmament, most notably using his celebrity to contact directly Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy in the most complicated moments of the Cold War, or joining forces with Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre, or Simone de Beauvoir in successive calls for peace. His writing begat the bestseller philosophy book of the 20th century, and brought him a Nobel Prize."

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is a weird subject. Many of us have had to learn some of it in high school, but we quickly dismissed it as we move forward in life, only to rediscover it as soon as we hit some midlife crisis along the way. Or, at least, that was the experience of this author. Yet philosophy is the only real bridge uniting all sciences, and as such deserves a much brighter spot on it. In particular, the road that led us to the computer was primarily built by philosophers, and in particular, by Bertra…