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Adversaria (20)
30 November 2024, around 4.47.
‘The greatest opportunity anybody can have is to live in a free society as one among many who are fully capable of taking advantage of its freedom; but to take advantage of that opportunity, each must develop the cooperative virtues of good faith and benevolence’ —Alan Donagan (‘Spinoza’s Theology’ in The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, […]
Adversaria (30)
30 September 2025, around 4.02.
‘Some people were in the park pretending it was warm, exercising that necessary Scottish thrift with weather which hoards every good day in the hope of some year amassing a summer’ —William McIlvanney (Laidlaw, 10%) ‘I noted all my findings on index cards. I valued the cards as signifiers of serious scholarship, and boosted my […]