Tag: Thomas Hobbes

• Is Whispering Nothing?

  Sometimes I randomly accede to the frivolous demands of boredom, but more frequently I am goaded, and approach not of my own volition, but like Don Quixote, hoping to right some wrong. At those times I am, I like to think, teleology’s servant. I assume that it is the purposes they end up championing, rather…

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  March 14, 2018

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  art, Banksy, BBC Culture, cow masks, dissonance, Don Quixote, Guerrilla Girls, India, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, Lascaux, masks, misogyny, sexism, Sujatro Ghosh, teleology, the Venus of Laussel, Thomas Hobbes

• Can Anyone Laugh?

  Frailty, thy name is woman, Hamlet said, upset about his mother’s behaviour. Perhaps Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc had bad memories of the play. In a recent speech on moral corruption in Turkey, he is quoted as saying that : “Chastity is so important. It is not only a name. It is an ornament…

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  August 14, 2014

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  Bulent Arinc, Haram, Haram and laughter, Henri Bergson, Herodotus, Islamic Jurisprudence, Laughing in public, Laughter, Nietzsche, Philosophy of laughter, Plato, Shakespeare, Theories of laughter, Thomas Hobbes, Turkey, Wikipedia