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2 days ago

One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another and those become the stories we're reading. As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights Shahrazad's feat of creativity refuses the present emergency the contrived drama of a powerful man.
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5 months ago

How Medieval Thinkers Justified War: From Augustine to Aquinas - Medievalists.net

War is seen as a consequence of humanity's fallen nature according to Augustine.
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