@RobertTalisse Not even for the senior member?
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@RobertTalisse Not even for the senior member?
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@HipDialectic @philosophybites “The truth be told, Socrates was not opposed to the Sophists; he was the best of them.”* Or rather, he was not opposed to the BEST of the best of them, the ones who sought truth.
*Robert C. Solomon;Kathleen M. Higgins. A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER)
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@philosophybites He’d be censorious, but I don’t think he’d be as down on Sophists as some suggest.
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“In spite of their petty passions, their incomplete education and their vulgar manners, they clearly can provide practical intelligence, and that is found to be enough.” Not so clear these days. https://t.co/hbTGcnmFMw
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Another smart centenarian, Stanley Kunitz, became poet laureaute at 95. “It is out of the dailiness of life that one is driven into the deepest recesses of the self.”
And it’s Alexis deTocqueville’s birthday. He was hopeful for American democracy…— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER)
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This is our century, dear reader, yours and mine. Let us encourage one another with visions of a shared future. And let us bring all the grit and openheartedness and creative spirit we can muster to gather together and build that future.”
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“Reaching this birthday with my health and wits mostly intact is a privilege. Approaching it with loving family, friends and creative collaborators to share my days has filled me with a gratitude I can hardly express…
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An inspiring centenarian who wants the next generations to look back on ours and sing “those were the days” when humanity finally grew up… https://t.co/6YjB82ovnQ
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I’ve just posted on my Blog about: Forward https://t.co/Q3tzgaMRqY
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I’m sure it’s coincidence, but striking all the same.
Two pillars of the new party’s platform are to “reinvigorate a fair, flourishing economy” and to “give Americans more choices in elections, more confidence in a government that works, and more say in our future.”
The party, which is centrist, has no specific policies yet. It will say at its Thursday launch: “How will we solve the big issues facing America? Not Left. Not Right. Forward.”
“Forward” sounds good, but will it really advance progressive values? Will it not siphon strength from the only party currently standing between our present remnant of democracy and fascism?
We’ve been enjoyng The First Lady, about the lives and times of Eleanor, Betty, and Michelle. The theme asks if this land really was “made for you and me,” the show implicitly asks if it still can be. Can we still “achieve our country”? That was Richard Rorty’s question, echoing James Baldwin, and it’s why I decided to take on American Studies. We need smart students to become smart citizens who care about the answer.
We definitely do need a politics and a mindset oriented to a better, richer, more intrepid future. I’m with @elonmusk when he tweets
A new philosophy of the future is needed. I believe it should be curiosity about the Universe – expand humanity to become a multiplanet, then interstellar, species to see what’s out there.
But that’s not new, it’s at least as old as Carl Sagan. But it’s good. Carl probably wouldn’t think Twitter was going to be the vehicle to take us there. Elon needs to stay focused on rockets and e-cars
I’m with Norman Lear too. He became a centenarian yesterday, and is not looking back like Archie and Edith. Old guys who look far forward are an inspiration.
“Reaching this birthday with my health and wits mostly intact is a privilege. Approaching it with loving family, friends and creative collaborators to share my days has filled me with a gratitude I can hardly express.
This is our century, dear reader, yours and mine. Let us encourage one another with visions of a shared future. And let us bring all the grit and openheartedness and creative spirit we can muster to gather together and build that future.”
Then, all our heirs in the human family can look back and truly sing “those were the days.”
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