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William (Willi) F. Unsoeld, Ph.D.: 36, Corvallis, Oregon; Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Oregon State University, on leave as deputy Peace Corps representative in Nepal; Climbing leader.

Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition

The classicist M. L. Clarke offers a different explanation: Stoicism, he suggests, declined in part because of a lack of charismatic teachers of Stoicism after the death of Epictetus.3 Many people are capable of describing the principles of a philosophy in a coherent fashion, but one of the things that made Stoicism a vital force was that teachers

William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

Twenty-five years ago Allan Bloom proclaimed a heresy: The supposed idealism of the 1960s was in fact a veneer hiding a new barbarism. He saw that our elite liberal culture has a very definite vision, however much it talks about diversity, multiculturalism, and the like: the relativism of moral truth. This anti-dogmatic dogma, he thought, is... See more

Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.

Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

The author never met anybody who would trade our social order for theirs, who wants to go back to that old Princeton world. And yet ... and yet there are disturbing ghosts around the campus. The old order haunts this one, and whispers that maybe something was lost as well as gained when we sacrificed all for the sake of high achievement, safety,... See more

David Brooks • The Organization Kid

The Natural Moral Law: The Good after Modernity

Owen Anderson

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I got SBF’s Machiavellian character down perfectly before the collapse, but I did not anticipate his sheer stupidity lol. I think Sam Altman is ambitious and extremely competitive. Paul Graham himself said Sam was good at becoming powerful. Below is a character study of the man... See more

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our best defense in chaos is a good offense:

Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified

Sartre said, an ex-student of his had come to him for advice.

Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others