Archive for January, 2015
Friday, January 16th, 2015
The Thread in the Labyrinth
One fine July morning, under a pounding sun, I began to wonder where we had come from, where we were going, and what we were doing on this Earth.
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Friday, January 16th, 2015
Recommended Reading
Shakespeare, Tragedies
Bible: (Ecclesiastes)
Nagel, T. (1971) “The Absurd.”The Journal of Philosophy 68, pp. 716-27.
Camus, A. (1942) Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Editions Gallimard:Paris
Introduction
The question of the Meaning of Life is one of those questions that the layman thinks should be at the very heart of the philosophical ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
Architecture
Ur-Nammu’s determination to display his piety and to repair the damage done by the Guti (or by neglect in the interregnum) showed itself in reconstruction efforts all over Sumer in the name of his god ad of the local gods of the cities. Most elements of the architecture, such as ...
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