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Mark Blitz’s Plato’s Political Philosophy makes, and keeps, some large promises. At the top of the list is Blitz’s intention to bring to light Plato’s depiction of the full range of human ...

There Are No Such Things as Introversion or Extroversion. Science doesn’t justify them and they hold us back from our potential. The most ardent “introverts” can enjoy “extroverted ...

Do you ever really stop what you are doing in your daily routines, and just think, “Who am I?” You know, why am I here, why do I see things in the world like I do, why do I do things as I do ...

L: Like What Actually Is. As Epictetus suggests, it is not enough to just be fine with reality. You have to actually go a step further and wish for things to be as they are.

Yes, a dolphin's icon for “shark” no doubt looks different than a human's, but there really are sharks, and they really do have powerful tails on one end and a mouthful of teeth on the other ...

Culture; Books & the Arts; February 3, 2011; Things as They Are Things as They Are. Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are, Ron Howard’s The Dilemma ...

Seeing Things As They Are. James R. Kelly July 08, 2014. George Orwell by Robert Colls. Oxford University Press. 352p $34.95.