Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Pussy Riot. Words will break cement
The problem with staging a show trial is that the main actor has little incentive to follow the script. Yet that’s never tempered Russia’s thirst for judicial theater. In 1964, a Soviet court demanded to know who had given Joseph Brodsky permission to write poetry. That future Nobel laureate’s retort: “I think that it ... comes from God,” became a classic of artistic defiance.
Two years later, the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel stood accused of purveying “slanderous inventions.” The defendants’ principled stance did not save them from the Gulag, but it earned the support of people like Hannah Arendt, who called the proceedings “an ugly reminder of something one had hoped had passed into history.”
Monday, July 28, 2014
Philosopher-on-Philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer on Georg Hegel
“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein on Bertrand Russell “Russell’s books should be bound in two colors, those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them.”
“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein on Bertrand Russell “Russell’s books should be bound in two colors, those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them.”
Friday, July 25, 2014
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
El Cáncer: el secreto mejor guardado
Nueva Mentes: El Cáncer: el secreto mejor guardado: Han pasado más de 8 décadas de este descubrimiento y nadie te ha contado que la causa de la mayor y gran parte de las enfermedades la ge...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
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