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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Master of the argumentum ad hominem   I.   Academic philosophers, who like to take a serious and professio...

Curbing their enthusiasm: Socrates, Maria Thanassa & Larry David       I.    According to Maria Thanassa [1] , notions of sobriety and ...

Cover of the Portuguese edition  (Relógio D'Água, 2022) [a]     I. The ethics of inactivity rests, according to Byung-Chul Han, on timi...

  I.    I was interested to hear the Chairman of the D. H. Lawrence Society, Mr Alan Wilson, claim in a recent sermon streamed live from St....

The Lad Himself Anthony [Aloysius St John] Hancock  (1924 - 1968)     On this day in 1968, the English comic actor Tony Hancock committed su...

Dark Clouds (2013) photo by Audrey Skoglund fineartamerica.com     You say it's dark. And, in truth, I did place a cloud before your su...

Promotional image for the 2020 film adaptation of Olaf Stapledon's novel  directed by Jóhann Jóhannsson and narrated by Tilda Swinton Cl...

Cover image - by the author's daughter, Flavia Tower -  to the first UK edition (Victor Gollancz, 1971) I. "We think we ...

Medieval image (c. 1420) of Alexander encountering the γυμνοσοφισταί I. Ascetic - often militant - nudity has a very long histor...

Sir Craig Mackey with the white feather he should receive  when stripped of his knighthood Image: Press Association I. Courage...

Rachel Weisz as Hypatia in the 2009 film   Agora (dir. Alejandro Amenábar ) I. Hypatia: The Spirit of Plato and the Body of Aphr...