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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 18h
Fair enough; it is drawn from here although it may be apocryphal, unfortunately. Too bad, I have it in a footnote on Greek philosophy
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 19h
Metaphysics 💡
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 19h
“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.”

—Aristotle

#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 1d
“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.”

—Edwin Arlington Robinson

#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 4d
“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.”

—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃

#PhilSky #Halloween #literature
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 5d
Q: “I'm afraid of dying.”

A: “To live with the uncertainty of existence we must dispel the image of a hungry grim reaper hanging about our shadows with a gleaming sickle.”

Full response: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-im-afraid-of-dying

#PhilSky #philosophy #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 7d
“Never despair.”

—Horace

#PhilSky #poetry #philosophy #tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 9d
“Our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”

—Karl Marx

#PhilSky #socialistsunday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 10d
“The film is an artifact of western capitalism that evokes Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’”

Read here: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream

#PhilSky #philosophy #film #saturday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 13d
“A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

—Walt Whitman

#PhilSky #poetry #nature #dialectics
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 15d
“There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.”

—Democritus

#philosophy #Greece #MondayMotivation #PhilSky
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 18d
“The common characteristic of all perversions is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim.”

—Sigmund Freud

#philosophy #psychology #Friday #PhilSky
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 19d
Q: What is postmodernism?

A: “Postmodernist politics and culture relies on extensive reference to the past because of an inability to apprehend the future.”

Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-what-is-postmodernism

#PhilSky #philosophy #thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 21d
“Confound those who have said our words before us.”

—Aelius Donatus

#PhilSky #philosophy #Rome #tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 22d
“The beginning is the most important part of any work.”

—Plato

#PhilSky #philosophy #monday #thanksgiving
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 25d
“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.”

—William Shakespeare

#PhilSky #literature #friday #philosophy
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 26d
“Pursuing ‘superintelligence’ will always be fantastical, akin to running for the horizon in order to touch the clouds.”

Full article: thereclamation.co/will-ai-raise-us-up-to-heaven-or-cast-us-into-hell

#philosophy #AI #technology #thursday #PhilSky
Will AI Raise Us Up to Heaven—or Cast Us Into Hell?
Sentient technology and the future of the West
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Oct 5
“We see this Night when we look a human being in the eye. From his eye the night of the world hangs out toward us.”

—GWF Hegel

#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Oct 5
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Oct 5
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Oct 4
“There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.”

—Hubert Selby Jr.

#PhilSky #philosophy #saturday #requiem
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Oct 1
Q: How do I curb my online shopping?

A: “It is a deafening fact that we exist in an economic system that appeals to the worst side of our nature and it makes us miserable.”

Full reply: thereclamation.co/ask-the-edit...

#PhilSky #psychology #shopping #finance #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Oct 1
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

#philosophy #wednesday #poetry #PhilSky
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · Sep 28
“As Darwin discovered the natural laws of evolution, so Marx discovered the laws of human history”

—Friedrich Engels

#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
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Prof. David Kitchener @davidbsky1.bsky.social · Sep 28
Happy Socialist Sunday #SocialistSunday
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