Article first published as Great Philosophers Who Failed At Love on Technorati. Andrew Shaffer has created small love bios of 37 philosophers-from the ancients like Plato and Socrates to more modern love misfits like Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. From celibates to seemingly endless lines of lovers, the great philosophers offer an interesting view of sex, love, and people who think too much. Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love is a slim volume of only 192 pages, with each philosopher rarely getting more than three pages and a portrait. It’s a fast read and the portraits show a group of…
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Philosophy 101-Immortality
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” Woody Allen When I was in school the late, great Laurence Olivier was one of many stars in a Ray Harryhausen movie called Clash of The Titans. This movie was generally panned and often called the worst film in Laurence Olivier great acting career. Though to be honest, just about every movie Laurence made after 1970 could be called the worst he ever made. With the possible exception of a production of King Lear which featured an old man playing the part of…
Philosophy 101-Who Am I?
‘This is a perfectly good broom-its only had three new heads and two new handles.‘Mr Arkwright on Open All Hours True Story-I was playing Triominos a few years ago, this is a kind of Dominoes with three sides, and we had finished the game and I was just fiddling around the pieces. I was trying to see how many full circles I could make with the little triangles and have the numbers match up. I was doing pretty good, right up until the last little pie which needed one piece to be complete. There were only a few pieces left…