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The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell, 1930: "In The Conquest of Happiness iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable
About 2400 years ago, Socrates was put to death by the Athenian state in a notorious trial. Why was a seemingly harmless 70 year old man condemned to death?
From Democracy to Freedom - The Difference Between Government and Self-Determination (2017): "In this critical appraisal, we trace democracy from its classical origins to its current ascendancy around the globe. Reviewing how democratic discour
Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild first published in 2005. "Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the rem
In the 5th century BCE, each year the Athenian citizens could decide to hold an ostracism. Elites were the target of these ostracisms, and if a person got enough votes, he would be banished from the city for 10 years. But why was this instituti
The Witch Hunts by Robert Thurston (2001): "Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? Wh
In Moby Dick, Herman Melville takes the story of Jonah and the Whale and greatly expands upon it in a sermon delivered by Father Mapple. But is the priest's interpretation fair to the original story, and what does this say about Melville's atti
"I know your kind, what is wrong with you is wrong all the way through you." Why does the kid, the protagonist in Blood Meridian, utter this condemnation of Sproule after he has been bitten by a vampire bat? Segment from the book is narrated by
Why did Frederich Nietzsche go from writing favorable remarks on women to denouncing them in his later works? The answer may lie in the Lou Salome affair. Main source is the essay "Nietzsche and Women" by Julian Young in "The Oxford Handbook of
Why does the New Testament scholar Dale Martin claim that we don't know what happened at the trial of Jesus, or if there was a trial at all? Did Jesus not appear before Pontius Pilate? Looking at the Gospel of Mark and John, they are very diffe
Depressed people killing someone else so they could be executed was common in the 18th century, especially in Protestant countries. Why didn't they kill themselves instead of someone else, and why was children often the target? If you want to k
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