What a generous, compassionate project and book @horatioclare.bsky.social. I hope it helps raise awareness of (and funds for) the fine humanitarian work done by some of the institutions discussed, such as the RNLI.

We live in an increasingly tribal world, and mine is blue / savoury / dogs / Aristotle. #philsky

Oracle bones: A tortoise plastron used in divination c.1200 BC. The writing records the diviner, their prediction, and (in an Enlightenment-avant-la-lettre twist) the actual outcome. Anyang, Henan province, China. #AncientBluesky

This was wonderful, thank you. You mentioned Auden’s rave review; worth adding, perhaps, that he used to wear a Gimli jumper…

Alan Garner on pass agg uses for Attic Greek #AncientBluesky

Antony Gormley, “Body Buildings”, currently exhibiting at the Galleria Continua in Beijing. Intricate, thoughtful explorations of human form and the built landscape (and a lingering moment of respite from the minus 10 degree winter outside).

Applies across this imprint!

Michelangelo’s ink drawing of “The Philosopher”, currently being exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. M was not in the business of debunking stereotypes… #PhilSky

@londonreview.bsky.social readers are so dapper these days.

The richness of Tolstoy’s moral psychology can be jaw-dropping. Here he is in a Nietzschean mode (from Anna Karenin, Penguin Classics ed., p.421). #PhilSky

Pound’s ‘Cathay’ is something singular. Some C8th (and earlier) Chinese poems are cribbed into English by Japanese scholars for the benefit of an American, whose annotated versions are picked up by Pound and turned into… a translation? This is from Li Bai. #poetry

Tired of seeing liberalism battered from the right? See it battered from the left instead! (As ever with Geuss, one can stand and admire the erudition irrespective of one’s political orientation.)

The cover photo used here is a reminder of this wonderful recreation of the Holbein in the first season.

“The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy….” But, as so often with Williams, he offers not only the grand statement but also the softened, refined, problematised version.