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  • Repeating the Original Sin

    Repeating the Original Sin0

    • February 3, 2016

    Even if you’re not religious, you should know your religious mythology. As many of the great thinkers of the past recognized, the mythological stories offered (or expressed) important archetypes for understanding our present world. For instance, in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche interprets human life as a struggle between the Apollonian (rational) and Dionysian (irrational)

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  • What They’re Reading in Ivy League Schools

    What They’re Reading in Ivy League Schools0

    We’re big proponents of self-education at Intellectual Takeout. So when today’s Washington Post claimed there was a new way to get an expensive Ivy League education without paying tuition, I eagerly bit. According to The Post, the way to this inexpensive education is through the Open Syllabus Explorer, which is “an online database of books assigned

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  • These 12 Simone Weil Quotes Are Genius!!!

    These 12 Simone Weil Quotes Are Genius!!!0

    • February 3, 2016

    The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) only lived to the age of 34. But in spite of her brief life she created a body of work that has garnered some impressive compliments. Albert Camus described her as “the only great spirit of our time.” T.S. Eliot wrote that she was “a woman of genius, of

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  • Why Do Trump and Sanders Have So Much Support?

    Why Do Trump and Sanders Have So Much Support?0

    Running respectively in the Republican and Democratic primaries for President, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have attracted much more support than the party establishments expected. They didn’t expect it because, in prior presidential-election cycles, men like them would almost certainly have been marginal candidates destined to drop out early. That hasn’t happened, and at this

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  • College-Educated Women Can’t Find Good Men

    College-Educated Women Can’t Find Good Men0

    Over at The Daily Beast, Emily Shire writes about Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, which seems to really resonate with her as a single, college-educated woman in Manhattan. As it quickly becomes apparent, she can’t find a good man. But she takes some solace in the fact that there is actually a

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  • Nature vs. The Machines

    Nature vs. The Machines0

    As cool as drones are, we still have nothing on the power of nature. Yes, we can program the machines, but now the police in the Netherlands are training eagles to take them out. There’s some delicious irony here:    Tolkien would be proud.      (Image Credit: SeattleTimes.com) Save this article to favorites

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