BOOKS AND LETTERS

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10 Reasons to Study Philosophy

Or, why you should think both about what and how others have thought

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Mar 31, 2026
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The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David (1787)

We should scarcely call a person educated who knows nothing of the various ideas that have participated in the great conversation that has shaped the Western tradition. Each idea that has emerged as an influential force on a culture or society at a particular cultural moment did so as a result of the disc…

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