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Plato in Sicily Plato travelled to the decadent strife-torn court of Syracuse three times, risking his life to create a philosopher-king Nick Romeo & Ian Tewksbury Aeon. 21 December, 2020 Nick Romeo is a journalist and author, and teaches philosophy for Erasmus Academy. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Atlantic and The New Republic, among ..

Illustration by Michelle Thompson The future of liberalism Faced with creeping authoritarianism, liberals need to craft a new agenda—learning from their serious mistakes, and shaking shibboleths of both right and left By Timothy Garton Ash The Prospect January/February 2021 Issue December 9, 2020 Writers have interpreted the failings of liberalism in different ways; the point, however, is to cha..

The four thinkers who reinvented philosophy Between the wars, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin sought to transform the world by giving it their total attention – a lesson that still resonates 100 years on. By Lyndsey Stonebridge NewStateman 10 December 2020 In 1936, writing from exile in Paris, the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin looked back at the s..

Beethoven and Freedom On the composer’s 250th birthday by David P. Goldman Tablet December 16, 2020 Ollie Silvester On Christmas Day 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its setting of Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy: Joy, immortal incandescence! Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire from thy presence To thy temple ground we come … “..

“일제, 경술국치 8년 전인 1902년에 ‘역사 침략’ 끝내” 이태진 서울대 명예교수 “역사교과서 체제 3史로 나눌 때 한국사를 일본사 일부로 편입” 유석재 기자 조선일보 2020.12.16 03:00 /고운호 기자 일제가 1902년 역사 교과서의 체제를 ‘일본사’ ‘동양사’ ‘서양사’의 3사(史) 분과로 나누면서 한국의 역사를 동양사가 아닌 일본사에 편입했음이 드러났다. 1910년 한일강제병합(경술국치)이 이뤄지기 8년 전에 이미 일제의 ‘역사 침략’이 완료됐던 것이다. 이태진(전 국사편찬위원장) 서울대 명예교수는 최근 일본 덴리(天理)대 발행 제70회 조선학회대회 논문집에 실린 강연록 ‘메이지(明治) 일본 정부의 역사교육정책과 조선사(한국사)’에서 이 사실을 밝혔다. 이 교수는 을사늑약과 한일병합의 ..

토마스 아퀴나스와 〈신학대전〉 대학지성 In & Out 기자 2020.11.29 18:00 [열린연단: 문화의 안과 밖] ■ 열린연단: 문화의 안과 밖 _ 김율 대구가톨릭대 교수의 「토마스 아퀴나스 」 네이버문화재단의 일곱 번째 시리즈 ‘문화정전’ 강연이 매주 토요일 서울의 네이버 파트너스퀘어 종로에서 진행되고 있다. 인류 문명의 문화 양식은 오랜 역사를 통해서 문화 전통, 사회적 관습으로 진화하며 인류 지성사의 저서인 '고전'을 남겼다. 이들 고전적 저술 가운데, 인간적 수련에 핵심적이라 받아들여지는 저술을 문화 정전(正典)이라고 할 수 있다. 전체 52회로 구성된 이번 시리즈는 인류가 쌓아온 지적 자산인 동서양의 ‘문화 정전(正典)’을 통해 오늘을 사는 현대인들이 마주한 삶의 문제를 깊숙이 들여다본다..

The Secret History of T. S. Eliot’s Muse For years, Emily Hale was the object of his longing and the source of his inspiration. Was the loss of their romance a boon for his poetry? By Michelle Taylor The New Yorker December 5, 2020 In 1949, eight years after James Joyce died, his letters began to travel the world. Thanks to microfilm technology, popularized a few years earlier, the contents of h..

Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud: The Friendship of Genius By Jeffrey Meyers Salmagundi, Fall 2020-Winter 2021 I Thomas Mann’s international fame as a novelist ran parallel to the equally celebrated career of Sigmund Freud. He respected Freud’s courage and genius, praised Freud (nineteen years his senior) in his public speeches and correspondence, acknowledged Freud’s influence on his work and visi..

The Moral Contortions of the New University Intellectual curiosity has been replaced by pro forma attention to representation. By Justin E.H. Smith The Chronicle of Higher Education December 1, 2020 You might recall the strange case of Matthew J. Mayhew, a professor of educational administration at Ohio State University. In late September he co-wrote an opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed enumerat..

Keep science irrational Is hard data the only path to scientific truth? That’s an absurd, illogical and profoundly useful fiction Michael Strevens Aeon, 19 November 2020 Michael Strevens is professor of philosophy at New York University. His books include Thinking Off Your Feet (2019) and The Knowledge Machine (2020). Modern science has a whole lot going for it that Ancient Greek or Chinese scie..