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The rhetorician may ask for your consent, but never because they care about it. Only to win your favor and influence you. Where does persuasion end and manipulation begin? Not too late to join our Plato's Gorgias seminars. sphil.xyz/courses/platos-gor… #Plato #Gorgias #Philosophy
Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias is one of his most dramatic inquiries into the question “What is rhetoric?” It examines whether rhetoric can truly confer power. It also explores themes such as the nature and...

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Can a persuasive speaker beat the doctor at convincing a crowd about medicine? That is the problem at the heart of Plato's Gorgias. Our course begins today, 17:00 GMT. Still time to join! sphil.xyz/courses/platos-gor… #Plato #Gorgias #Philosophy
Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias is one of his most dramatic inquiries into the question “What is rhetoric?” It examines whether rhetoric can truly confer power. It also explores themes such as the nature and...

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Is getting what you want the same as doing what you please? Socrates thinks that's a bad idea. Our Plato's Gorgias course begins tomorrow, 17:00 GMT. Slots are limited. sphil.xyz/courses/platos-gor… #Plato #Gorgias #Philosophy
Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias is one of his most dramatic inquiries into the question “What is rhetoric?” It examines whether rhetoric can truly confer power. It also explores themes such as the nature and...

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One day left! Our course on Plato's Gorgias begins tomorrow, Sunday 1 November, 17:00 GMT. Slots are limited. Enroll: sphil.xyz/courses/platos-gor… #Plato #Gorgias #Philosophy
Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias is one of his most dramatic inquiries into the question “What is rhetoric?” It examines whether rhetoric can truly confer power. It also explores themes such as the nature and...

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Sleep must be really important from an evolutionary standpoint. We spend so much of our time in it and we're completely vulnerable during it.
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What do you call someone who's really good at theology? A saint. What do you call someone who's really bad at theology? A prophet.
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New on the sPhil YouTube channel: Peirce Against Intuitive Self-Consciousness. Do we begin life knowing ourselves as selves? youtu.be/AR37EhvyFk8 #Peirce #Philosophy
Peirce Against Intuitive Self-Consciousness (Follow Along)

Peirce Against Intuitive Self-Consciousness (Follow Along)

Filip analyses the second question in C. S. Peirce's "Questions Con...

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New short on the sPhil YouTube channel: Plato's Critique of Democracy. youtube.com/shorts/HhrxvEzTF… #Plato #Philosophy
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Enrollment is now open for our course on Plato's Gorgias, taught by Max Macken. Rhetoric, desire, justice and the care of the soul. First seminar: Sunday 1 November. sphil.xyz/courses/platos-gor…
Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias is one of his most dramatic inquiries into the question “What is rhetoric?” It examines whether rhetoric can truly confer power. It also explores themes such as the nature and...

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Learning vim again. Going to try with this: github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.…
GitHub - m4xshen/hardtime.nvim: Break bad habits, master Vim motions

GitHub - m4xshen/hardtime.nvim: Break bad habits, master Vim motions

Break bad habits, master Vim motions. Contribute to m4xshen/hardtime.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Workshop: Attraction and the Honesty of Desire, on Plato's Gorgias. 27 October, 20:00 GMT, on Zoom. Everyone welcome. us06web.zoom.us/j/8762958307…
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New on the sPhil YouTube channel: Peirce Against Intuition. Can we know a thought is immediate? youtu.be/sB0xcdqcgNU
Peirce Against Intuition: Can We Know a Thought Is Immediate? (Follow Along)

Peirce Against Intuition: Can We Know a Thought Is Immediate? (Follow Along)

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Schelling's Freedom Essay: Freedom, System And Ground

Schelling's Freedom Essay: Freedom, System And Ground

The Freedom Essay represents Schelling’s most systematic writing on his conception of freedom and it also captures important themes from his philosophical past, such as his love of the Platonic,...

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After the eternal act of self-revelation, everything in the world is, as we see it now, rule, order and form; but anarchy still lies in the ground, as if it could break through once again, and nowhere does it appear as if order and form were what is original...
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dead internet theory is real
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What happens when an uncancelable force meets an unrepentant object? I guess with Musk and Trump we'll soon find out!
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Oblivion remastered... but what about Morrowind?
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Trump has ordered a 138% tariff on all NPM downloads across the border
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Rough day at NPM
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I love this passage and return to it often. From Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind:
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