All Things Rhapsodical

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A Few Monday Fragments

A Few Monday Fragments

Mostly on the depressing phenomenon that is academic philosophy today

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Jul 18, 2022
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[Mont Blanc massif captured with cheap camera after night of no sleep and much coffee, circa 1996]

A contemporary philosopher, a young hotshot at the University of Chicago, writes an essay that endeavors to explain how humans should approach death, art, evil. In it, in the midst of expert-sounding pronouncements on the phenomena, with lots of proper cit…

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