LISTEN. The Master of Liberal Arts summer course inspired by Steve Pinker's book begins tonight. "Enlightenment Now" zooms Tuesdays at 6, all summer except for my date in mid-June with a couple of surgeons who offer a major improvement in my ambulation, and another a month later in Kansas for that conference I try never to miss (and missed last time only because COVID postponed it).
Opening Days (and Nights) are always about introductions, to one another and to our course, prompted by some basic questions. Who are you? and Why are you here? And, this time, What does enlightenment mean to you?
Who am I? A long-time student and teacher of philosophy... (continues)
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For all us "lifelong learners," a little motivation...
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LISTEN-Miscellaneous thoughts on our course, navigating this blogsite etc.
It is the birthday of Bertrand Russell, [who] said “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric,” and “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise” https://t.co/GNLVYmyVIR
— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) May 18, 2021
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