The Worry-Fencer: the roots and restlessness of our present time.
Tracing the source of our restlessness, in dialogue.
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06, 2017
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03, 2017
Medicine finds its roots in the humanities (J. Kutac, R. Osipov, A. Childress, Journal of Medical Humanities)
How the current shape of healthcare can learn much from investigating Renaissance perspectives on the human condition, and the manner in which humanists describe this condition.
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02, 2017
The lily and the river
The lily and the river: how much do we presume about our knowledge of the future, and how firmly rooted is our knowledge of our origins? Two fables from Renaissance scientists and polymaths: The lily set itself on the bank of the river Ticino, and the current swept away both the bank and the lily. Leonardo da [...]
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12, 2016
History and the contingency of knowledge (Willard Dix, Forbes)
History and contingency of knowledge: the ways that studying the past can teach us how we can better understand one another today. From the editorial: My introduction to the power of the liberal arts came in an undergraduate course studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.... Until then, I had assumed (as most high school students [...]
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05, 2016
An encounter with Renaissance art, and its consequences
An encounter with Renaissance art, and its consequence: Boris Pasternak reflects on culture and individual genius. The chief thing that everyone carries away from an encounter with Italian art is the sensation of the tangible unity of our culture, whatever he may have seen this in, and whatever name he may give it. How much [...]