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It further champions the creative powers of the individual to strive beyond social, cultural, and moral contexts. One of the key tenets of his philosophy is the concept of "life-affirmation," which embraces the realities of the world in which we live over the idea of a world beyond. Nietzsche's key ideas include the Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, the Will to Power, the "death of God", the bermensch and eternal recurrence. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. But it’s also a love letter to our younger selves (Adichie’s included), because most of us were conditioned to think of girlhood and womanhood as something to be survived. Dear Ijeawele is indeed a letter to a friend preparing to take on the difficult task of raising a girl in a world where gender is, as Adichie describes it, “a straitjacket” of damaging rules and restrictions for women. “Now that I, too, am the mother of a delightful baby girl,” Adichie writes in the introduction, “I realize how easy it is to dispense advice about raising a child when you are not facing the enormously complex reality of it yourself.”Īnd so the piece became a message to her friend Ijeawele, to Ijeawele’s daughter Chizalum, to the world, to herself and to her own child. By the time she had completed it, she was a new mother as well. So Adichie, a self-proclaimed feminist and bestselling author, began working on the project that would eventually become this manifesto. How do you raise a feminist when you aren’t a master of feminism-or motherhood-yourself? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest book, Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, perfectly frames this difficult task.Īdichie confesses that she was motivated by a challenge from her good friend Ijeawele, who asked for concrete ways to raise her (at the time, unborn) daughter as a feminist. A man who realized that destiny was a choice and not a chance. A man who never allowed his problems or lack of a formal education to determine his present or affect his future. While Rick Rigsby’s father was a third-grade dropout, he was a man who never hid behind any excuse. and another to become a judge-imagine what they can do for you. But if this man’s instructions were powerful enough to inspire one of his children to earn a Ph.D. They were quite straightforward, in fact, as Rigsby’s father never made it through third grade. These lessons weren’t about advanced mathematics or the secrets of the stock market. But then he remembered the lessons his father taught him years before- incredibly simple, yet incredibly profound. Rigsby was content to go through the motions, living out his life as a shell of himself. Rick Rigsby’s viral graduation speech.Īfter his wife died, Rick Rigsby was ready to give up. A USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal bestseller! Learn how to live a life of character and integrity-by following the simple advice of a third grade dropout. The book was written with the help of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts-the grant application might have outlined a work significantly different than the final draft, but you never know. It was reprinted as part of the New Canadian Library ( “synonymous with the best that has been thought, felt, and written in Canada”) select under an advisory board including, once again, Nobel-prize winning author Alice Munro. The jury panel included Alice Munroe, Margaret Laurence, and Mordecai Richler. It won the Governor General’s Award for 1976. It’s about a dreary, unfulfilled urbanite archivist named Lou who leaves Toronto when she gets an assignment to catalogue the books in a 19th-century house somewhere in northern Ontario when she gets there, she finds out the previous owner kept a pet bear who the neighbours still feed. It surprises me this didn’t happen earlier- Bear is the kind of strange book the internet gravitates towards. Shortly after I discovered Bear (1976) by Marian Engel existed it became a minor internet meme. Diagnosis, a seven-part documentary, captures the results of this experiment.Įach episode follows roughly the same format. Last year, realizing that often these cases transcend traditional medicine, Sanders decided to take advantage of the extensive readership of the Times-in short, she wanted to try crowd-sourcing medical advice. Since 2002, Sanders has used her column to spotlight patients manifesting unusual symptoms. Still, they need answers.Ĭreated in association with T he New York Times, Diagnosis is predicated on an experiment, inspired by Sanders’ New York Times magazine column of the same name. The patients who consult with Sanders have all seen their fair share of doctors, specialists, and emergency room personnel. When it comes to cracking the strange, textbook-defying cases explored in each episode of Diagnosis, only the latter will suffice. Lisa Sanders, a physician at the Yale University School of Medicine, in the third episode of the new Netflix docuseries, Diagnosis. “There’s the medicine that you read in books and then there’s the medicine that comes through experience,” explains Dr. No book is in chronological order, as each was written for the author himself. The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Aurelius' life. Ruins of the ancient city of Aquincum, in modern Hungary – one site where Marcus Aurelius worked on Meditations. These writings take the form of quotations varying in length from one sentence to long paragraphs. The work has no official title, so "Meditations" is one of several titles commonly assigned to the collection. It is unlikely that Marcus Aurelius ever intended the writings to be published. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes reveal that the first book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Granova (modern-day Hron) and the second book was written at Carnuntum. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. Meditations ( Koinē Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, romanized: Ta eis heauton, lit.'things to one's self') is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Furthermore, to say that most people find something boring, and to give evidence for this, is to assert a proposition of a social science. The bearing of this on Svendsen’s study of boredom is that merely to say that I am bored is not a matter of philosophy, but of psychology. Murdoch also thought that philosophy – or at least moral philosophy – should be concerned with values such as the good and the beautiful. Philosophical truths are about what is true generally, not just what happens to be true for me at a moment in time. Iris Murdoch wrote that to do philosophy is to explore one’s own temperament yet at the same time to attempt to discover the truth. In this earlier companion work to his book on Fear which I reviewed in Philosophy Now Issue 84, the Norwegian academic Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, theology and popular culture in a playful but learned work on boredom, first published in English in 2005, now reprinted. SUBSCRIBE NOW Books A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen Mark Frankel finds Lars Svendsen’s book interesting psychology but boring philosophy.īoredom has been described as “time’s invasion of your world system” by Joseph Brodsky, “a bestial and indefinable affliction” by Feodor Dostoevsky, and “a tame longing without any particular object” by Arthur Schopenhauer. Richard Francis Burton, a linguist (he spoke twenty-nine languages), previously had been the first Englishman to enter Mecca (he was disguised as a Muslim). Two of them were British, sent by the Royal Geographical Society. There are three main characters in this story. That proved to be quite perilous because, among other things, the local tribes were usually unfriendly to travelers. Financial constraints limited the English foray to a group of fewer than 150 men. Thus, the Royal Geographical Society reasoned that the most efficient route to its source was an overland westward trek from Zanzibar.Īrab slave traders had penetrated the interior of the “Dark Continent,” but they did so in rather large caravans in search of slaves. The river was not navigable much south of the equator for reasons the author does not explain. Central Africa remained terra incognita to Europeans. The Blue Nile (its eastern branch) had been traced to the mountains of Abyssinia (today’s Ethiopia), but no white man had been able to traverse the White Nile past southern Sudan. This saga recounts the story of the 19th-century search by a team of explorers, beginning in 1854, to find the source of the White Nile River, the longest river in the world. The only failing is that there is not a large foldout start chart showing where to find all the stars, although that would be rather hard, because it is different depending where you are in the world. This book also covers the Milky Way, the Sun and the phases of the moon. This last bit is important, because depending on the light pollution in the area you are in, you might only be able to see the brightest star.Įach major constellation is written about, both ancient as well as modern. There is also a little bit of history, and what the brightest star is. Well researched, well documented, and lovely pictures, showing which stars are supposed to represent what parts of the constellation. This book is for the kid in us, as well as kids today. And when you looked at reference books, they weren't much better help. Do you remember looking up at the stars as a kid, being told that is Orion's Belt, Casiopea's Chair or that is the Big Dipper, and all you could see were stars, not the picture the names suggested. |