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Re:Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:42PM (#20503542)
"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state..."
That was Milton Friedman's view.
Re:Anaxagoras Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock
on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:25PM (#20502467)
And don't forget Anaximenes and Anaximander!
Re:Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:41PM (#19988198)
The culture in multiculturalism seems to boil down to restaurant and pop (i.e industrial) culture choices. If it is anything beyond that, it is utilitarianism: the rule of numbers, economics. Capitalism in other words. Any attempt to assimilate the cultural change happening today to that of the past, or to validate it by what happened in the past, is fraud and diversion.
Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died
on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:15PM (#19437152)
if any of this remains it will not be me
from "Hoelderlin at the River"/The Vixen
Re:On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”
on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:30PM (#19324507)
"Call me Ishmael"?
Re:Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
on Monday September 17, 2018 @06:07PM (#18010557)
Yamada Taichi
Re:More than ‘know thyself’: on all the other Delphic maxims
on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:54PM (#17964472)
Ἄρρητον means "what is not to be spoken". I'd say the maxim is purposely ambiguous rather than baffling. It could mean "shameful", "horrible", or "sacred".
Re:The Question of Hamlet
on Monday September 10, 2018 @05:15PM (#17955270)
In high school I thought Hamlet was a comedy. All the characters seemed deluded to the point of foolishness. The ending is a perfect comedy of errors. My feeling was good riddance!
I should reread it!
Re:Ask HN: Best books on the psychology of religion?
on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:43PM (#17905786)
Aristotle's ethical treatises.
Also, his Rhetoric.
Re:Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction
on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:32PM (#12839629)
"Kirk and Raven" is the standard textbook in English. Gives and discusses the principal testimonia and fragments in the original Greek (or Latin) with English translations.
As it happens, there's a pdf of an early edition (1957) here: https://archive.org/stream/presocraticphilo033229mbp