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The Jackmeister: Mongol History @the_jackmeister

5 days ago

Article of mine on the Secret History of the Mongols, its content and history

Medievalists.net @Medievalists

5 days ago

Article of mine on the Secret History of the Mongols, its content and history

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Sigпalpеsтт @signalpestt

5 days ago

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Pymander's ghost @pymandersghost

a week ago

I wonder if ancient philosophy might be better studied cross-culturally, along a classical axis (Greek-Indian-Chinese) than through the usually rather distorting prism of later Western philosophy.

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Plotinus and his countless courtyard of scholars @HoDiadochus

7 days ago

"Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heaven." Plato, Timaeus 47A2-6

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MACV-SOG @MAC_VSOG

a week ago

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor

Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2

a week ago

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor

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Outis @Outisemoi

a week ago

Plato (Rep. 500c) says that what is admired (ἄγαμαι) ends up being imitated (μιμεῖσθαι), and to that one ends up assimilating oneself (ἀφομοιοῦσθαι). To take care in what we contemplate is also ethics.

Plotinus and his countless courtyard of scholars @HoDiadochus

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soli @solisolsoli

a week ago

Un Chat Angola by Jean-Jacques Bachelier

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Empire-Builders @EmpiresPod

2 weeks ago

What a way to end a history book! "I suppose there was not a race of men nor any city at that time nor any single person whom Alexander’s name did not reach. I therefore assume that a man unlike any other in the world would not have been born without the intervention of the…