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Simon Young


Born
Nottingham , The United Kingdom
Genre
History


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Simon Young was awarded a starred First in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge University, as well as the Chadwick Prize for Celtic studies. Since then he has lived in Spain, Ireland and Italy. The author of many academic articles, he has also written about the Dark Ages for History Today, the Spectator, and the Guardian. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 595 ratings · 117 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
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The Celtic Revolution: In S...
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Designer Evolution: A Trans...
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The Fairy Census, 2014–2017
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“Man is not born free, but everywhere in biological chains. People of the world, unite! - you have nothing to lose but your biological chains.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto
tags: marx, philosophy, rousseau, transhumanism
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“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”
― Simon Young
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“As humanism freed us from the chains of superstition, let transhumanism free us from our biological chains.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto
tags: humanism, immortality, philosophy, transhumanism
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