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What Is Philosophy?
April 7th, 2013 | Philosophy | journalpulp | 4 Comments
A reader writes: Dear Sir: A friend recommended your book to me a while ago and it literally took me over a year to read! It is so philosophical and I’m not an abstract person. But you made me think. My question is, how do YOU define philosophy? Sincerely, Paul S Dear Paul S: The [...]
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Elegant Universe
March 3rd, 2012 | Philosophy | journalpulp | 4 Comments
A reader writes: Dear Sir: You are reported to have said that there is no order or disorder in the universe apart from what man himself puts there — this in spite of your well-known preoccupation with a fluid and congruent universe. Can you tell us how you reconcile this, with regard in particular to [...]
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A Novel Shouldn’t Make You Think, It Should Make You Shiver
February 27th, 2012 | philosophy of art | journalpulp | 2 Comments
In a lecture he delivered at Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov said this: “A work of art shouldn’t make you think, it should make you shiver.” And yet in reply to that one must ask: what about those of us who actually like for a book to make us think? What about those of us who [...]
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What Is The Difference Between A Cynic And A Skeptic?
February 9th, 2012 | Philosophy | journalpulp | No Comments
Cynic and skeptic are often confused and often conflated, though in actuality the only thing they really have in common is that their provenance is philosophical. The difference between the cynic and the skeptic is the difference between epistemology and ethics. It is the difference between brain and body. Skepticism is an epistemological word. Cynicism [...]
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