Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, first published 50 years ago, is a classic of African American literature. Exploring the consequences of pervasive racism in 1940’s … Read more
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Seneca On the Shortness of Life
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher and stateman. As with Marcus Aurelius, Seneca saw Stoicism as a philosophy … Read more
Baudelaire and The Philosophy of Toys
Can you remember what it was like to play as a child? Perhaps you had a favourite doll, toy car or set of figures that … Read more
Philosophy and the Liberal Arts
Philosophy and the Liberal Arts is the title of a page from a book called the Hortus deliciarum (Garden of delights). It was written by … Read more
What is Life?
Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was an American biologist and writer who is mostly known for developing the theory of “endosymbiosis” in the 1970s, which had a … Read more
Buddhism Contra-Philosophy?
As Dominique Side puts it, perhaps one of the ‘most striking things about Buddhism is the way that the Buddha began teaching by talking about … Read more
Stride toward freedom
Liberal Arts has a long history in the USA. In recent years it has been exercising self-critique on the colour of its canonical literature, and … Read more
The Plague by Albert Camus
Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert Albert Camus’ La Peste or The Plague, written in 1947 is a fictional account of the sudden arrival … Read more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was born in AD 121, died 180. He was Roman Emperor from 161-180. His main interest was Stoic philosophy. James Moore and Michael … Read more