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Philosophy

An Interview With Biographer James Connor

by Paul Comstock

March 30th, 2007

“This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence. What matters to us is not necessarily what is real, but what is possible given the state of things. This is a big change, and constitutes a fundamental shift in the way we understand the world.”

This article is filed under Biography, Mathematics, Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy, Religion, Science.

Stemming from … Nowhere?

by Jascha Kessler

March 26th, 2007

To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence’s genius, it was given by his close friend Aldous Huxley in an introduction to the first collected letters shortly after his death: he was a mystical materialist. And thereon hangs the tale I shall unfold.

This article is filed under Literary Themes, Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy, Religion, Writers.

The Death of Conscience in The Onion Field

by Douglas Berger

March 25th, 2007

The stifling, frightening conclusion that we appear to be presented with in The Onion Field is that such a dream really is only a dream, that human beings may, in fact, have no inbuilt or inherent moral conscience, and that they can carry out the most self-evidently horrifying of crimes against one another with no checks, no trepidations, and no regrets.

This article is filed under Movies, Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy, True Crime.

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