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Alex Feinberg
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One could easily make the case that imperialism was invented within the 200 mm isohyet, from the time that Sargon the Great founded his multiethnic Akkadian empire around 2200 B.C.E.
“Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?”
― History and Utopia
― History and Utopia
“This rationalized interpretation of religion has resulted in two distinctively modern phenomena: fundamentalism and atheism. The two are related.”
― The Case for God
― The Case for God
“Ulpian, a jurist (d. ca. 229 CE), explained the basic principles of Roman law this way: “The rules of law are to live honestly, to harm no person, and to give to each his due.”
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
“the American physician George M. Beard introduced the term ‘neurasthenia’ to the medical lexicon, referring to feelings of profound nervous exhaustion and anxiety that were becoming an epidemic in the industrialized cities of Germany, England, and the United States.”
― Existentialism: An Introduction
― Existentialism: An Introduction
“subjective experience is explainable, and its successful explanation is of ethical relevance because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Not only does this conviction guide Spinoza’s major philosophical decisions, it also explains the lasting appeal of his chief work,”
― The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
― The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
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