More on how great artists become great: Liszt
Some fascinating glimpses of Franz Liszt, the virtuoso pianist and composer. Biographer Alan Walker writes:
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Entrepreneurial Education — Medici, Locke, Rothschild, Semmelweis
My 20-minute talk for the City of Ideas festival in Puebla, Mexico is online here. In English with Spanish subtitles. I use four examples — two good and two awful — from the history of medicine to frame my recommendations for transforming education.
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“Philosophy and a Century of War” — transcript
Below is a transcription of the video available YouTube and StephenHicks.org. Philosophy and a Century of War (transcription) Stephen R. C. Hicks Philosophy has a reputation for being abstract and difficult, which it certainly can be. It also has a reputation for being impractical, which it definitely is not. So today I want to give
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Philosophy’s longest sentences, part 4
My fourth contribution to contest, my earlier three being from John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle. I am surprised that we have no entries from Hegel, Fichte, or Heidegger, noted for their why-say-it-in-eight-words-when-sixty-are-available tendencies. But to my knowledge, the longest sentence written by a philosopher is the following 309-word original from the pen of
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