philosophybits: “The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part...

suliqyre:“Moving With Possibility”, etc. (436-440)“It now feels like a promise has been broken. We were promised consistency but we received...

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thirdity: “That he had felt this despair, this deepest nausea, and yet had not succumbed to it, that the bird,...

philosophybits: “In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of...

Rachel Zuckert grew up in Northfield, Minnesota. She studied philosophy at Williams College, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago....