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wen4blu
Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy | Anne Dufourmantelle
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How cute is this blind date with a book display? The store includes bookmarks and stickers with each wrapped book. Adorable!

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UnderworldAmusements
Thus Spake Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche
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Custo7
What is Philosophy? | Jose Ortega y Gasset
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PewVroom
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The_Book_Ninja
Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche
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I went to the recycling centre this morning. Always worth looking in the wheelie bin of books to see if someone is throwing away a gem. I gazed into this last bin in the line…and the bin gazed also into me!

Bookwomble "And if you contend against dustbins, beware that you do not yourself become a dustbin!" I used to have that edition, but it's long since gone - never read it ? Did you liberate it? 4mo
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble No…as I shuffle towards the great library in the sky, I want to spend my remaining days reading for enjoyment🤣 4mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Ah, but maybe you should have taken that Vintage copy of Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast trilogy to read later this year 🧐 I would have left the Nietzsche (he's had his chance with me), but I'd have taken the copy of Six Yuan Plays at the back there. Somebody's dumping some good shit in that bin! 4mo
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The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble there were 5 bins, filled to the top…I was overwhelmed ☺️ 4mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja I'd be turning up with a shopping trolley! 😄 4mo
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble there‘s a lot of crap in there and you have to move fast, they don‘t like salvaging in this centre..😳 I don‘t know if they‘re all like that. The Gormenghast had a badly creased cover. I don‘t mind a old, yellowing book but I can‘t be dealing with creased covers 4mo
Bookwomble Please ignore me - I don't always know when a joke's stopped being funny 🙃 4mo
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble Ignore my Litsy twin! 🤣Don‘t worry..I‘ll assume it‘s all jokes unless you use an angry emoji😡 4mo
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Susanita
A Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes
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A quote I saved from Litsy a few years ago…

#wondrouswednesday

Ruthiella Nice! Reading is like time travel. 5mo
Susanita @Ruthiella Yes! Well put. 5mo
Cathythoughts Nice one ❤️ 5mo
Eggs Very nice👏🏻👏🏻 5mo
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Dilara
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Probably of limited interest to non-French people, but the baccalaureate philosophy exam started at 8 this morning, and the essay questions are now out:

Vocational stream
Is Nature hostile to Man
Is the artist master of their own work

Academic stream
Can science satisfy our need for truth
Does the State owe us anything

Inspired or not?

Thinking of all those teenagers sweating on their exam papers in many different parts of the world...

Kitta As a scientist, I‘m definitely interested in these questions! I feel that science can give us the answers and can tell us the truth, but that maybe we won‘t reach them in our lifetimes and we‘ll have to wait for the next generation to understand. It‘s a frustrating reality that progress can be slow. 5mo
IuliaC These are very relevant questions 5mo
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards "Is the artist master of their own work?" is taking all sorts of new nuance with AI! 5mo
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Dilara @Kitta Slow and every new discovery or insight brings about new questions! It's neverending... 5mo
Dilara @IuliaC Definitely! 5mo
Dilara @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Oh, I hadn't thought of that 😁 5mo
Dilara For whoever is interested, Le Monde newspaper published essay examples for some of these questions: https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/live/2024/06/18/en-direct-bac-philo-2024-un-enseig... 5mo
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rwmg
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Alternates sections on the author's list of favourite philosophers and on themes and questions. Mostly concerned with the European tradition with occasional glances at India. Does what it says on the tin, serves as an introduction.

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