The Pompous Asses
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Does Seneca’s Genius-Madness dichotomy still apply in the contemporary world?

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Wittgenstein’s Tractus over-emphasizes the role of language, doesn’t it?

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Contemporary poetry demonstrates that Wordsworth’s belief that poetry ought to be in the everyday “real language of men” was misguided.

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I, personally, would characterize John Stuart Mill as the consummate intellect without a soul.

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Richelieu’s influence on Louis XIII isn’t as negative as they say. He did, after all, found the Académie Française.

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