Richard Rorty and How Postmodernism Helped Elect Trump Rupert Read on Richard Rorty’s warning to the future. philosophersmag.com/richard-…

A democracy is a state which recognises the subjecting of the minority to the majority.--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.--Seneca

I won't talk to my colleagues about philosophy... They are too stupid.--Colin McGinn

Any lore that widens people's horizons and presents food for thought is the beginning of philosophy.--Chief Reuben O. Ogunyemi

Britains's Favourite Philosopher Guilty of Fare Evasion The Curious Tale of C. E. M. Joad & the Train Ticket heristical.com/p/britainss-f…

Doing Philosophy as Teaching Philosophy Alexandra Bradner and Andrew P. Mills argue that teaching is a lot more than just telling. philosophersmag.com/doing-ph…

Music and Philosophy, curiosity, The purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.--T. S. Eliot

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.--Michel de Montaigne

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.--G.W.F. Hegel

[O]ur inquiries should be directed, not to what others have thought, nor to what we ourselves conjecture, but to what we can clearly and distinctly see and with certainty deduce, for knowledge is not won in any other way.--Rene Descartes

How the English Are the Best in the World Everybody and everything in England is the best heristical.com/p/how-the-eng…

A Marathon for the Mind Gary Flood investigates Philosothons, a new philosophical phenomenon in schools. philosophersmag.com/a-marath…

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.--Simone de Beauvoir

How can I even begin to read this muck? [About Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"]--Martin Heidegger

Woman can be emancipated only when she can take part on a large social scale in production and is engaged in domestic work only to an insignificant degree.--Friedrich Engels

Religion is the only means of introducing some notion of the high significance of life into the uncultivated heads of the masses, deep sunk as they are in mean pursuits and uncultivated drudgery.--Arthur Schopenhauer

Not Such a Bright Idea On the ill-fated "Brights" fiasco heristical.com/p/not-such-a-…

What Do You Really Want? Quassim Cassam makes a case for a new, human picture of self-knowledge. philosophersmag.com/what-do-…

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.--Ernest Becker