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16 12, 2015

Society’s True Aristocrats

By Humanities Watch|2015-12-09T11:52:38-05:00December 16th, 2015|December, Europe, History, Philosophy, Quotes|0 Comments

Every society is based on aristocracy, because this one, the true one, is demanding with regard to itself, and without this demand every society would die. Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1954

Joseph Conrad’s Terrorist

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-02T11:52:45-04:00December 7th, 2015|December, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Religion|0 Comments

The stoicism of his thought could not be disturbed by this or any other failure. Next time, or the time after next, a telling stroke would be delivered – something really startling – a blow fit to open the first crack in the imposing front of the great edifice of legal conceptions sheltering the atrocious [...]

On Welding and Philosophy

By Humanities Watch|2016-09-06T14:45:29-04:00November 20th, 2015|2015, Academia, Articles, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Employment, November, Philosophy, Politics, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Debating the fusion of politics, philosophy, and manufacturing