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Philosophers Who Like Stuff

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/fall/feature/philosophers-who-stuff-0

by pepys • 9 years ago

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joejev• 9 years ago

Interesting article, including the subtitle, "Their case against frugality", may help people understand what the article will be about. The article title alone is quite vague.

emmab• 9 years ago

They don't mention countersignaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling

Kluny• 9 years ago

Marco Polo’s awestruck description of the palace of Kublai Kahn at Xanadu belongs to the same genre.

Uh, what? Do they mean Kubla Kahn, a poem about a fictional world by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which came to him in an opium dream? When did Marco Polo come into it?

anamexis• 9 years ago

Kublai Khan, an emperor of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kublai_Khan

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