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* "biblioklept" has a post on Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds . I've always liked Flann O'Brien much more than ...

To that, however, which is objected, that the flesh is in our power; it must be said, that even if it is in our power according to the order...

Justin E. H. Smith has an interesting discussion of racism and the Enlightenment . However, I do think one thing needs to be corrected: Sc...

Although a man is called blind, blindness is not in any part of him except in the eye, where sight ought to be; for blindness is not in the ...

Aristotle in the Poetics famously says that the effect of tragedy is catharsis , purification or purgation, particularly of pity and fear, ...

History of Philosophy, as a discipline, involves a lot of technicalities -- every kind of technicality, in fact, because they all show up so...

Everything takes its species from its form: and it has been stated (2) that the species of original sin is taken from its cause. Consequentl...