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The first Latin translation of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics was done by a medieval scholar named Herman the German. That’s the tweet. True story.

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I know we don’t like Stephen King rn but in 1982 he wrote a short novel called The Running Man about a reality show where the grand prize is not dying. It was set in 2025. https://t.co/jzTxSxX7a2

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Last week a reader asked me whether Plato’s Republic was totalitarian. The short answer is that “totalitarian” is anachronistic, but The Republic is certainly authoritarian. The long answer is on my Patreon. https://t.co/Qiu7uVtoRS

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There are a few pages on Leibniz in my new Spinoza biography. Honesty wasn’t his strongest suit. He once claimed never to have read Spinoza’s Tractatus but in the 20th century scholars found his heavily annotated personal copy. https://t.co/a898z8aByR

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Mahmud Shabistari Iran, 14th century His poem Gulshan-e-Raz (The Rose Garden of Mystery) was written in the form of a series of questions and answers about Sufi doctrine. https://t.co/b7G8NDsuOH

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Absence and Nothing gives an admirable survey of nothing and its attendant problems ... The writing is clear and effective, even in addressing the most complex difficulties but not shy about eschewing a full explanation when an adequate one will suffice.

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“All things considered, it is after a moderate meal and before sleep - or possibly before the afternoon nap - that the time will be most favorable for sexual intercourse.” - Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality vol. III

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There is a huge body of 20th C literature on the incest taboo. Psychoanalysis, anthropology, and structuralism were all obsessed with it. It starts roughly with Freud’s Three Essays on The Theory of Sexuality and culminates in D&G’s Anti-Oedipus. Malinowski is another big name. https://t.co/y6Py4Osas6

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Mahmud Shabistari Iran, 14th century His poem Gulshan-e-Raz (The Rose Garden of Mystery) was written in the form of a series of questions and answers about Sufi doctrine. https://t.co/b7G8NDsuOH

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This is so funny bc the same thing happened to me. In high school I used to carry my copy of Naked Lunch everywhere and I was so offended when they gave me The Portrait of a Lady. A few years later I write an MA thesis on Henry James 🤪 https://t.co/iBdLNvouYp