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Biography of Anastasia Romanov, Doomed Russian Duchess Portrait of Anastasia Romanov, 1915.​ Table of Contents Early Life The Rasputin Connection The February Revolution Capture and Imprisonment Execution of the Romanovs Decades of Mystery By Patti Wigington Thought Co.,Updated on February 05, 2020 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (June 18, 1901—July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar..

How to become wise Detail from a six-panel folding screen in the Chaekgado style, a still-life genre from the Joseon period depicting a scholar’s books and possessions. Courtesy the National Folk Museum of Korea How to become wise Practice is at the heart of Korean philosophy. In order to lead a good life, hone your daily rituals of self-cultivation by Kevin Cawley + BIO Aeon 6, December, 2022 K..

Small Nations, Big Feelings By Madelyn Lugli Public Books, 10.27.2022 In the 1930s, Americans fell in love with Czechoslovakia and Spain; today, it’s Ukraine. What happens when one finds a “second mother country”? Madelyn Lugli In March 1930, American author Marcia Davenport arrived at Prague’s Woodrow Wilson Station. She knew not a single Czech word or person, yet she “fell in love” with this n..

Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art? The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem. By David Frum The Atlantic, September 14, 2022 A metalwork head made in the kingdom of Benin between 1515 and 1550 (James Stanfield / GEO Images Collection / Art Resource, NY) The world’s most..

Making an Enemy of Luxury Imagining utopia—and condemning excess—during the Enlightenment. By Gregory Claeys Lapham's, Quarterly, Monday, September 12, 2022 Description of the Land of Cockaigne, Where Whoever Works the Least Earns the Most, Italy, seventeenth century. The Getty Research Institute. Following the English Revolution and a puritanical cultural interlude, the restoration of the monar..

종교의 위기, 현대인은 어떤 신앙을 원하는가 중앙일보 입력 2022.09.16 00:58 김형석 연세대 명예교수 반세기 전이기는 하지만 두 차례 인도를 방문하였다. 첫 느낌이 후진국가라는 인상이었다. 국가가 국민에게 베풀어야 하는 기본교육, 절대빈곤 극복, 의료혜택 보급을 위한 시설, 모두가 구비되지 못했다. 식구가 많은 가정의 빈곤한 모습을 대도시에서도 발견할 수 있었다. 사회학자들은 인도가 미국만한 선진국가가 되는 데는 180년의 세월이 걸릴 것이라고 했다. 인도인도 첫째 목표는 파키스탄보다 잘사는 것이고, 다음 희망은 중국을 능가하는 데 있다고 했다. 그 당시에는 한국도 개발도상국 중간단계였으니까. 무엇이 원인이었을까. 3000년 가까운 세월을 종교적 세계관의 울타리 안에서 안주했기 때문이라고 생각..

At the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, opened in 2005 in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Mark Henley/Panos Collective wrongs Even when individual perpetrators and victims are dead, states and institutions have a responsibility to make restitutions by Joshua Stein + BIO Aeon, 13 September 2022 Joshua Stein is an American philosopher working in applied ethics, including medical ethics and ethic..

When to break a rule A virtuous person respects the rules. So when should the same person make a judgment call and break or bend them instead? Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters Steven Nadler + BIO AEON, 29 September 2020 Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters Steven Nadler is the William H Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Spinoza: A Life (2n..

The Perils of Public Writing Elizabeth Corey The National Affairs wo centuries have passed since the great critic and essayist William Hazlitt wrote the essay, "On Living to One's-Self." In it, he advocated living life "as if no one knew there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it." It is better, he maintained, to be "a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things" than it is to ..

Miłosz’s Magic Mountain Czeslaw Milosz in California Joy Neumeyer The Baffler, May 2, 2022 Czesław Miłosz. | The Paris Review - Word Factory At the edge of Berkeley’s campus, where concrete meets traffic, Euclid Avenue stretches up and north into the hills beyond. I usually stopped on the first block for pizza and beer at La Val’s. But occasionally, on the way to a professor’s house or a graduat..