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“He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king”
― Where the Wild Things Are
― Where the Wild Things Are
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....”
― Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
― Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“It’s better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― A Life with Books
― A Life with Books
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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