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Proceedings of the Pain Debate

There is an advantage to asking silly questions: they never have simple answers. How we solve the problem of suffering is a prime example, for the question is almost impossible to interpret. But as I sat in the corner of a packed lecture hall, listening to the idle clatter of a philosophical combat that veeredContinue reading “Proceedings of the Pain Debate”

Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 5: Religio Medici, I

When I came to writing this chapter, I had in my mind’s eye swathes of lofty exposition on Platonism and its heir Hermeticism; and I looked forward to it, and I was all the more sure because such good scholars have approached Browne with excellent histories of that philosophy. Only, the idea never left myContinue reading “Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 5: Religio Medici, I”