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The School of Life

philosophy - Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn't see the progress that's routinely assumed.
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Burke on: The Sublime
There's a particular pleasure to be felt in the mighty things of nature: thunderstorms, the stars, vast deserts, oceans, the icecaps. One philosopher who analyzed our pleasure was Edmund Burke, who pinned a word to this sensation and theorized about why it was so nice: he gave us the concept of The Sublime.
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
We're used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it.
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The One Subject You Really Need to Study: Your Own Childhood
Most of us grow up in a single family as our only example of what a family is. Any family dysfunctions we accept as normal which impacts our relationships with other people later in life. It is healthy for us to look back at our childhood influences and understand them.
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