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Ultimately, he says, neuroscience will—and should—dictate human values.
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
We must guard against a fallacy common among apologists of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it,
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
The limitation to Weil’s imagination is, paradoxically, its seeming limitlessness. Her ability to plumb the human condition runs so deep that it risks losing those of us who remain near the surface of things.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
In private, meanwhile, he filled notebooks with philosophical thoughts alternating with Nazi-flavoured anti-Semitic remarks. When these ‘Black Notebooks’ were published in 2014, they provided yet more confirmation of something already known: Heidegger was a Nazi, at least for a while, and not out of convenience but by conviction.
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
The Destructive Impact of Cultural Heideggerianism – David P. Goldman
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Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, published by Princeton University Press 2020
Jodi Boe • 1 card
The Beginning of Infinity
Matt Sornson • 6 cards