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Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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Analyzing historical accounts of Alexander the Great: distinguishing fact from embellishment and the role of xenophobia and stereotypes.
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And there is a sense there that this is a theatre of cruelty and that Alexander's projection of his power over the defeated man is playing on something within the audience that he's appealing to. And again, I suppose we come back to the question, is this historical Alexander or is this part of the story? Yeah, I mean, because I can see how
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Nietzsche argues that morality is determined not by objective truths but by the interests of the moralizer.
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
We will evaluate the evolution of fighting using three settings: the Movie Set, the Dojo, and the Octagon. We will loosely link each with the three ancient Greek modes of persuasion: Pathos or emotion, Ethos or authority, and Logos or reason, and three different ways of learning: inspiration, rote, and praxis.