As Difficult As Rare
Alexander DouglasMy scribblings on Spinozist things.
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Which Daodejing translation should you read?
The best joke I’ve heard about committee meetings is: “Well, everything has been said, but not everyone has said it yet”. Likewise, so it seems, there comes a time in everyone’s life when they translate the Daodejing. There are over 500 tra...
Mind-Fasting
One of my favourite notions in Zhuangzi is “mind-fasting” (xinzhai 心齋).
The character xin 心 is often translated “heart-mind”. It can mean “mind” but also “heart” in the sense that Pascal intended when he wrote that “le cœur a ses raisons...
The Story of a Misprint
George Eliot’s translation of Spinoza is now widely available in a very nice edition edited by Clare Carlisle. The translation is readable, accessible, and beautiful of course, and would be great to recommend to newcomers to Spinoza, except...
Gary's Finance
Gary Stevenson: finance-guy-coded
Gary Stevenson is a YouTuber, who “explains economics” to The People on his channel Gary’s Economics. A few of The People (with whom I occasionally deign to interact) have mentioned him to me. So I thought...
An Embarrassing Defence of the Humanities
Why Defend the Humanities?
The humanities are under threat and need defending!
Like most people whose salary depends on the humanities, I think this. But I don’t believe that I think it only out of self-interest. I worry about the d...
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Trying to study the philosophy that isn’t footnotes to Plato. Historian of philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
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