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Sandy Grant

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The Cambridge philosopher Sandy Grant. Existentialist. Gigs include @LatitudeFest https://xitter.cf/t.co/cTEpgpIBxE

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Enjoy! My essay on enjoyment, freedom and resistance with @aeonmag #philosophy #enjoyment aeon.co/essays/enjoyment-no-…
Enjoyment, no matter how brief, is a philosophical good | Aeon Essays

Enjoyment, no matter how brief, is a philosophical good | Aeon Essays

Philosophers have traditionally been highly suspicious of fleeting pleasures, but to enjoy the moment is a radical act

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Stop reading bloody Camus. This is not the plague. #covid19UK #CoronaIsolation #philosophy #philosopher
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Fantastic food for thought. Check out philosopher Sandy Grant.
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#StayAtHome Save lives....
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Kimiko Nishimoto, 89 year old Japanese woman who began taking photographs at 72 and is known for her amusing and deceptive self-portraits #womensart
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Jean Rhys@MsJeanRhys19 Mar 2020
You seem so far away and I can only do my best.
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My computer's calendar keeps flipping between 1918 and 1929.
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Stop reading bloody Camus. This is not the plague. #covid19UK #CoronaIsolation #philosophy #philosopher
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Stop reading bloody Camus. This is not the plague. #covid19UK #CoronaIsolation #philosophy #philosopher
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To say nothing of Twitter...
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Television with its flickering series of trivial momentary unreflective uncomprehended images, pictures the state of the prisoners in the Cave who can only see the flickering shadows of things which are themselves copies of real things. -Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
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TS Eliot@TSElibot21 Feb 2020
In this brief transit where the dreams cross the dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
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'Lurcher leaping a fence' by UK photographer Fay Godwin (1931-2005) #womensart #FridayFeeling
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Jean Rhys@MsJeanRhys21 Feb 2020
Yesterday at the cinema in the one and threes, watching the usual thing. Biff. Bang. Why, you dirty double-crossing. Bang. Biff.
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I don't know. Neither do you #philosophy #philosophyisnotaHowTo
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From the neon series by contemporary South Korean artist Jung Lee #womensart
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I don't know. Neither do you #philosophy #philosophyisnotaHowTo
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Philosophy would clip an angel's wings - Keats #philosophy
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'God save the Queen. The fascist regime...' #SexPistols
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The end of the #SexPistols: Watch their last performance in 1978 - Far Out Magazine bit.ly/3646ELR
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TS Eliot@TSElibot10 Jan 2020
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season
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Dirty and boring.
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A 1940 self-portrait by Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), German Jewish artist who created a large autobiographical series of paintings while in hiding from the Nazis. The artist was later murdered in Auschwitz #womensart
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Grete Stern (1904-1999), German-Argentinian photographer known for her surreal photomontages, who presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, in 1935 #womensart
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