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The Problem With the Postcolonial Syllabus Against a peculiarly Western allergy to the pleasure of the text. By Sumana Roy The Chronicle of Higher Education February 10, 2021 In the essays my students write, I have begun to notice a common pattern. They are structured almost like Aesop’s fables. A moral seems necessary at the end — a kind of wrapping up, whichever way one chooses to look at it, ..

Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex By Michael Sims The New York Times Feb. 5, 2021 Charles Darwin. The intellectual superiority of the male sex, he wrote in “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex,” “is shewn by man’s attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman.”Credit...Corbis/Getty Images “If I live till I am 80 years old,” Charles Darwin wrote to a fr..

Padilla at Princeton in January.Credit...D'Angelo Lovell Williams for The New York Times He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline. By Rachel Poser The New York Times Magazine Feb. 2, 2021 To hear more audio stories from publish..

The problem with prediction Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think Joseph Fridman AEON, 25th January, 2021 Joseph Fridman is a science communicator, researcher, media producer and educational organiser. He’s a senior specialist at Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company, and is a producer and project coordin..

Artificial Intelligence Is a House Divided A decades-old rivalry has riven the field. It’s time to move on. By Michael Wooldridge The Chronicle of Higher Education January 20, 2021 The sun is shining on computer science right now, especially the subfield of artificial intelligence. Not a day goes by with out the press breathlessly hailing some new miracle of intelligent machines. The leaders of ..

On Language Evolution José-Luis Mendívil-Giró Inference September 20m 2020 To the editors: I share Evelina Leivada’s conclusion that terminological clarity matters. Leivada has done a great job compiling in a few pages the overwhelming issue of harmful vagueness in linguistics terminology. Her selection is relevant and ambitious. In this letter, I would like to add another expression that in my ..

Without God or Reason Albert Camus faced the human condition with clarity. By Morten Høi Jensen Commonweal January 6, 2021 Albert Camus (Kurt Hutton/Getty Images) I first read Albert Camus when I was seventeen. I borrowed my father’s well-thumbed copy of The Stranger and greedily consumed it in one sitting on a train from Frederikssund to Copenhagen. I was spellbound. How could I not be? There i..

Against Academic Book Reviews The capsule format leads to painfully dull work. It’s time to try something new. By Paul Musgrave The Chronicle of Higher Education January 8, 2021 Several years ago, The Atlantic published a history of authors’, readers’, and reviewers’ gripes about book reviews. Reviews, the genre’s critics have charged over the centuries, are unsatisfying — too nice, too bland, t..

What Writers and Editors Do By Karl Ove Knausgaard Paris Review January 5, 2021 Arts & Culture Photo: © BillionPhotos.com / Adobe Stock. The work of the literary editor is conducted in a kind of shadow, cast by the name of the author. A few editors have stepped out of that shadow, becoming perhaps more infamous than famous, for the labels “editor” and “famous” seem like a contradiction in terms,..

플라톤의 윤리철학 절대론의 체계화와 극단화 (Daum 백과에서 퍼 옴) 남성과 여성에 대한 인식 육체적 감각의 부정을 바탕으로 철학 체계를 정립한 플라톤은 당연하게도 도덕 문제에서 욕망과 쾌락에 강한 혐오감을 드러낸다. 쾌락은 인간이 분별력을 잃고 비도덕적 상태에 빠지게 되는 원인이었다. “지나친 쾌락이나 고통은 혼에 있어서 가장 심각한 질병으로 보아야만 합니다. 왜냐하면 사람이 지나치게 기뻐하거나 혹은 고통으로 인해 그 반대 상태를 겪게 되면, 시의에 맞지 않게 서둘러 한쪽은 붙잡으려고 하되, 다른 쪽은 피하려고 하는 통에, 바른 것을 전혀 볼 수도 들을 수도 없으며, 또한 미친 상태가 되어, 헤아림이라곤 전혀 가져볼 수 없기 때문입니다.”각주1) 개인의 도덕적 파탄만이 아니라 사회적 타락이나 분쟁도 ..