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Patriotism: A Debate for The Ages

by Street Shephardson in Ethnicity, November 17, 2011
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Patriotism has become a hot-button item on the political scene, today. Inciting fierce, personal, and emotional reaction from nearly anybody, patriotism has come to be symbiotic with debate and, unfortunately, anger. But why?

On Leo Tolstoy’s “what is Art” Sections Xi & XII

by jburre00 in Philosophy, January 7, 2011
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Is there a possibility for both good and bad counterfeits in Tolstoy’s schema?

On Leo Tolstoy “what is Art” Sections Ix & X

by jburre00 in Philosophy, January 7, 2011
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Tolstoy finds that the emerging "modern" art of his time was marked by manic eroticism, pure amusement and/or general incomprehensibility. My opinion that things have not improved at all in the last century.

On Leo Tolstoy “What is Art” Sections Iii-viii

by jburre00 in Philosophy, January 7, 2011
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Tolstoy takes the large step of separating Art from either beauty or pleasure (as its primary purpose) and claims it is the symbolic reproduction of communal feelings instead. My thoughts on this distinction.

The Richest Man in The World

by Jimmy Shilaho in People, March 13, 2010
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Who is the richest man in the world, who is the richest man on the planet Earth? Its not Bill Gates, its not Warren Buffet, well, I think its me.

Leo Tolstoy and the Meaning of Life

by Zymas in Philosophy, August 9, 2009
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Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s Confessions, an exploration of life and its futility and the possible remedies to these insurmountable facts according to Leo Tolstoy, famous author and philosopher.

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