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- The Essence of Tragedy: What is the essence of tragedy? How is it a phenomenon of life, a genre of art? In what actions, characters, and thoughts is it most clearly represented? Join our Philosophical Happy Hour as we take up a central question of artistic signification.
- Read the chapters of Aristotle’s Physics on time closely enough and you will see anticipation of the problems raised by relativity.
- We measure time today with extraordinary precision. But what, exactly, is being measured? Is it motion? Duration? Change? Something in the world—or something constituted through a numbering of before and after? The clock settles none of these questions. 1/2
- Whenever closely studying a text originally written in a language you do not sufficiently know, it is important to consult at least two translations. Even if you do know the original language, consulting translations will give you different interpretations as to what precisely
