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boonesfarmsangria · 2 years

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will my eyes be closed or open

#goods #greats #songs to love #bjork #hyperballad #this is the one

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indeedgoodman · 4 months

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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For many generations until quite recently most of the best schools in England took it for granted that their brightest boys would specialize in Latin and Greek. When those boys got to Oxford they found themselves following the course known as ‘Mods and Greats.’ The first and shorter part of it, Mods, consisted of Greek and Latin literature, but Greats consisted of a combination of Greek and Roman history with Greek and modern philosophy. Thus most of the cleverest boys from the so-called ‘great’ schools found themselves, if they went to Oxford, studying philosophy not because they had chosen it but because it came to them in the same package as the classical languages in which they were specialists. A. J. Ayer once remarked to me that it had never entered his head to choose to study philosophy, and that he would certainly not have done so had it not been presented to him as part of the Greats course.

- Bryan Magee (1930-2019)

When Bryan Magee, the future famed broadcaster, scholar, and politician, went to Oxford to study philosophy in the 1950s Magee was grievously disappointed at what was on offer. Linguistic analysis was all the rage, with philosophers such as JL Austin, Gilbert Ryle and PF Strawson teaching that all Western philosophy was based on linguistic mistakes or misunderstandings. ‘Professional philosophy as I discovered it for the first time in the Oxford of the early 1950s’, he recalled in his 1997 memoir Confessions of a Philosopher, had ‘pretty well abandoned philosophy’s traditional task of trying to understand the world’.

Magee, who had been both fascinated and terrified by the mystery of existence, took it as his mission to rescue philosophy from cold logical positivism or the trivialities of linguistic analysis. For him, philosophy was about asking the big questions. This may be a daunting task, but one ever-more alluring for being so.

His BBC television shows - interviews with the great philosophers of the day from AJ Ayer to Iris Murdoch - aimed at the masses was a runaway success with millions tuning in. Magee appealed to the British public not merely because of his communication skills, but also because he addressed the big, classic questions of philosophy, questions that all of humanity has asked and will continue to ask: Why is there something instead of nothing? What is knowledge? What is language? What is time? Where do we go when we die?

#magee #bryan magee #quote #oxford #philosophy #mods #greats #classics #university #mods and greats #latin #greek #education #culture #british #icon

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fieriframes · 9 months

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[I came to a town a hadn't been to and I didn't know where to eat. One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten, so I rolled in "Triple D"-style, found one of the greats. This is Sherman's Deli.]

#s26e12 turkey taters and dogs #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #triple d #town #walls #greats #sherman #deli

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ojin-ngode · 2 years

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Kalamashaka

#Kalamashaka #ukooflani #maumau #kenya #nairobi #africa #lyrics #greats #dandora #hiphop

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max-rainet · 2 years

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ART FOR SALE ~ William Sharp 1960 JAZZ * Original SIGNED Lithograph * Band Plays Abstract PRINT * Vintage

Mid Century Modern JAZZ !

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prismatoxic · 2 months

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dadchuck is everything to me

#laios: i wanna be a troll :(#chilchuck: have i got great news for you #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims

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dasloddl · 9 months

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ID in alt

#id in alt text #british #great britain #ants #Twitter #british museum #op dasloddl

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butchdonne · 6 months

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what studying literature feels like

#it’s always one of these two.#either i have a great point in my head i just can’t express it right or i have OUGHDGDHHD in my head and i need to make that useful…….#pip squeaks #literature

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ruhua-langblr · 4 months

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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere #I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but #langblr #duolingo #duo #language learning #language learning apps #mandarinblr #resource #reference

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boonesfarmsangria · 1 year

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#goods #songs to love #idky but this has been stuck in my head all day and is straight fire #well maybs cuz i saw ~you~ at the spot~#limb by limb #greats #SoundCloud

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indeedgoodman · 1 year

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mcromwell · 4 months

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"Nihilist Heron" 12"x16" acrylic, conté crayon, wax pastel on reclaimed support

Herons have captured my attention lately. I love their feathers and shapes.

#heron #great blue heron #bird #birds #wildlife #wildlife art #art #traditional art #animal art #painting #acrylic #mixed media #feathers #expressionistic #abstracted

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fieriframes · 1 year

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[I GOTTA SAY, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH REPRESENTATION ON SOME OF THE GREATS, LIKE LEBANESE, TRINIDADIAN, BULGARIAN, OR ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITES, JAMAICAN, SO WHEN I FLY INTO OAHU, CRUISE OUTSIDE OF WAIKIKI, YOU KNOW I'M STOKED TO FIND THIS JOINT--]

#s14e12 dynamic dishes #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #enough representation #like lebanese #time favorites #cruise outside #some #greats #trinidadian #bulgarian #my #jamaican #oahu #waikiki

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devious-buffoon · 5 months

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Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "the ten hells" or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just heard "power word:scrunch" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

#wizardposting #wizard posting #wizardblr #evil wizard #shitpost #the great wizard war of 1343

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charlesoberonn · 3 months

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Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me you know nothing about history

#'turned him gay'#newsflash asshole he's been gay (bi rather) the entire time!#alexander the great #history #to clarify this is a reaction to the tweet #I don't know anything about the documentary itself or how accurate it is

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