Andrea Cirla
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«Invulnerabile est non quod non feritur, sed quod non laeditur» — Seneca. Οὐ μὲν οὖν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, φάναι, ὦ φιλούμενε Ἀγάθων, δύνασαι ἀντιλέγειν, ἐπεὶ Σωκράτει γε οὐδὲν χαλεπόν. [«No, it is truth, my dear Agathon, that you cannot contradict; Socrates you easily may»] — Plato, Symposium, 201D. «E pensare che questa farsa durerà ancora miliardi d'anni, dicono» — Ennio Flaiano. «Alles wandelt sich. Neu beginnen kannst du mit dem letzten Atemzug. Aber was geschehen, ist geschehen. Und das Wasser das du in den Wein gossest, kannst du nicht mehr herausschütten» — Bertolt Brecht. «I made a decision about how I wanted to play the game. I would rather lose hitting the ball hard than win holding back» — Rod Laver. «L’humanisme c’est la passion de l’être humain pour son propre mystère, pour son génie, son tragique, et la sagesse qu’il peut acquérir» — Abdennour Bidar. «Item pedes spirituales sunt timor et spes. Qui bene timet et bene sperat, utrumque pedem sanum habet» — Rogerius de Hoveden.
Men of Ideas. Some Creators of Contemporary Philosophy 一 Bryan Magee
Andrea Cirla · 833 views · 1 year ago
Philip K. Dick ● If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others (1977)
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On Consciousness and Morality ● David Chalmers
Andrea Cirla · 333 views · 1 year ago
Tales from the Jungle — Margaret Mead
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Philosophy of Psychiatry – Kenneth W. M. Fulford
Andrea Cirla · 153 views · 10 months ago
Burrhus F. Skinner and Behavior Change: Research, Practice, and Promise
Andrea Cirla · 252 views · 1 year ago
Rosa Luxemburg’s open-ended future. Socialism or Barbarism, Internationalism or Nationalism
Andrea Cirla · 1.7K views · 4 years ago
Umberto Eco on Television and Semiotics (1999)
Andrea Cirla · 8.3K views · 4 years ago
Theology and Social Criticism: Salvian of Marseilles and the End of the Roman Empire in the West
Andrea Cirla · 155 views · 11 months ago
Between Realism and Utopia. Reflections on Adorno and “The Authoritarian Personality”
Andrea Cirla · 913 views · 1 year ago
Margaret Mead and Samoa (1988)
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The Conflict between Capitalism and Communism 一 Mortimer Adler
Andrea Cirla · 92 views · 6 months ago
Britten's War Requiem and the Body. Reconciliation After Conflict — Martha Nussbaum
Andrea Cirla · 312 views · 5 years ago
On the Road with Saint Augustine ● James K. A. Smith
Andrea Cirla · 645 views · 2 years ago
Nietzsche's Metaphysics
Andrea Cirla · 3.7K views · 13 years ago
Democracy and Religious Diversity — Charles Taylor
Andrea Cirla · 229 views · 4 years ago
The Library of Alexandria
Andrea Cirla · 16K views · 13 years ago
Byzantium, the Slavs, and the Rise of the Russian Orthodox Church ● Predrag Matejić
Andrea Cirla · 192 views · 1 year ago
The Genealogy of Guilt • Bernard Reginster
Andrea Cirla · 407 views · 13 years ago
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World ● Irene Vallejo
Andrea Cirla · 611 views · 1 year ago