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"It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful."
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
The Seasons of the Year
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The Hebrew agricultural year, like that of other peoples, was tied to the sun, seasons, and stars. The center of this mosaic floor looks the sun in its chariot, pulled by four horses. In the outer circle are the signs of zodiac, while the four seasons of the year peer at the viewer from the corners of the panel (Consulate General of Israel)
Mosiac Portrait of Alcibiades
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The artist has caught all the craftiness, intelligence and quickness of Alcibiades, who became romantic figure in antiquity. Besides the artistic merit of the portrait, the mosaic is interesting because Alcibiades’ name in the upper right corner is misspelled (Photo Caroline Buckler)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades
Mirador de Catarina, Laguna de Apoyo
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Fence
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William James
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The American psychologist and philosopher William James, brother of the novelist Henry James, was for most of his adult life associated with Harvard University, where he graduated in medicine, and taught successively physiology, philosophy, and psychology
plato.stanford.edu/entries/james
williamjamesstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/frederick.pdf
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Voltaire
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A courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty, Voltaire is still recognized as one of the greatest French authors, and the embodiment of 18th-century enlightenment
plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire
A UNIQUE LOCATION IN SPACE AND TIME
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Merleau-Ponty was responsible for bringing to 20th-century philosophy an acknowledgment of the importance of the human body. In Berthe Morisot’s Women and Child in a Garden (1883-84) the two figures appear lost in their own unique location in time and space.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot
SILENT THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS
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This atmospheric, late 19th-century oil painting by Andre Collin, Poor People, powerfully evokes a mood of introspection. Sitting in silence, the characters appear to have become absorbed in the contemplation of their own inner feelings, without any sense of self-awareness.
VERIFIABLE STATEMENTS
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Logical Positivists held that statements that make no difference to anything have no content. Only verifiable statements are meaningful. The advertising slogan “Put a tiger in your tank” is an effective metaphor, but has no meaning empirically
THE POWER OF BELIEF
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The superficial interpretation of James was encouraged by what he seemed to be saying about religious belief -- that if a statement could not be disproved, then one was justified in believing it if one benefited from it: for instance, a bereaved mother comforted by believing that her child is in heaven
plato.stanford.edu/entries/james
TO DO IS TO KNOW
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Pierce plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce argued that we acquire knowledge by participating and not spectating, for example, when we learn to drive, we gain knowledge from our action as a participant. This contradicted the view that scientists had held for almost 250 years, that knowledge is impersonal and is read from observations.
VOTES FOR WOMEN
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The British suffragette movement began in 1866 when Mill presented the first female suffrage petition to parliament. It was not until 1918, after years of campaigning, that women over the age of 30 won the right to vote.
NATURE'S LEADERS
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All men should be free to realize their potential -- their “will to power,” said Nietzsche, by which he meant in cultural and political activities as well as in conquests. Napoleon, shwn here studying at the Royal Military Academy, Brienne, in 1779, was a man who unarguably realized his “will to power”
RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS
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Marxists were intolerant of alternative views. Some dissidents wee imprisoned and others were executed. This c.1932 photograph of a Russian labor camp shows detainees being forced to work on the construction of a canal
