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After his triumphant return to London, John Locke’s theory of the mind gradually spread, as did his views on the processes of thought, consciousness, delusion, and the capacity of reason to control man’s passions. Along with Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton...

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.                Confucius The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion...

Exhibition dates: 26th July – 13th November 2016 Curators: Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Julian Brooks, curator of Drawings at the Getty Museum; and Elena Crippa , curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate. While there...

As I noted earlier, this mini-series is not a line-by-line unpacking of this encyclical, but rather random notes for our times, today. The Pope Emeritus is spot-on defining the weaknesses of modern thinking and the strength of Catholic approaches to...

Hello and welcome to issue #1427 of Edi's Weekend Wave. Dear Readers, yesterday evening the quarter final of the FIFA 2014 World Cup started with two Games: Germany vs France and Brazil vs Colombia. To my pleasure Germany made it to the semifinal vs...