~ “LETTERS FROM AMERICA” – by The Metaphysical Peregrine ~ Today, July 4th, we celebrate the birth of our nation, now 234 years old. We face the same issue now, as we did then. Do we want to live under tyranny or with liberty? We now have in power in this country people that believe [...]
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I know I am contradicting myself here—only two posts ago I was talking about “light blogging” and “vacation time” … But this Washington Times editorial is a must read : President Obama has wasted little time in using his executive branch power to give the country a leftward shove. In just the past few weeks, [...]
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Perhaps not everyone knows that for a long time Florence has been, and remains, home to many expats: those who have longed to live there, those who have found love and moved there, and those who have gone to Florence and felt immediately at home there. “Many people,” says Melinda Gallo, a writer and blogger [...]
Hello dear readers, I always appreciate your time and comments, but blogging will be light over the next few weeks. Until then, you might want to check out some of my favorite blogs (look on the right side of this page). Have a great summer!
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Poor lads, don’t go too hard on them, after all they did what they could do… Arrivederci Italia!
There is a quote I came across some time ago that says, “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, X, 16, AD 167). It fits well to a lot of people, except, at least to a certain extent, moralist philosophers—but Marcus Aurelius was one of them [...]
By Angelo Many thanks to Rob who has invited me to contribute to this blog. Last week Jürgen Habermas visited Ireland and received a prize from University College Dublin, where I teach philosophy to adult classes. Habermas is considered the most important European living philosopher and belongs to the second generation of the ‘Frankfurt School’. [...]
I am pleased to welcome a new contributor to this blog, Angelo Bottone. Angelo is an associate lecturer at the School of Arts of the Dublin Business School, where he teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Theories of Knowledge and Philosophy of Science. He holds a PhD in philosophy at University College Dublin. He has [...]
The good news for Italy, today, is that British bank Barclays is not worried about Italy’s public finances and will continue to invest in the euro zone country. Barclays chief executive John Varley told Il Sole-24 Ore newspaper, We had strong growth in Italy in the last 10 years. We continue to consider it a [...]
Some fear the West has “lost” Turkey. The Mavi Marmara incident is seen as further proof of such a Turkish shift (The Economist).
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