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Happy 118th bday, #SimoneDeBeauvoir. "To attain his truth, man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it." #philosophy buff.ly/qX3uE4y
January 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Happy 118th bday, #SimoneDeBeauvoir. "To attain his truth, man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it." #philosophy buff.ly/qX3uE4y
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January 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
We must use our current constitutional crisis to advance the ideals of our Declaration of Independence. Ahttps://understandingsocietyglobal.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=558&action=edit
#America250 #equality #freedom
#America250 #equality #freedom
January 2, 2026 at 1:39 AM
We must use our current constitutional crisis to advance the ideals of our Declaration of Independence. Ahttps://understandingsocietyglobal.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=558&action=edit
#America250 #equality #freedom
#America250 #equality #freedom
Comparing #Trump to the grievances spelled out in the Declaration of Independence: doesn't look good! affirmingdemocracy.org #America250
Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance
Changing Public Opinion about Current Government Lawlessness
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January 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Comparing #Trump to the grievances spelled out in the Declaration of Independence: doesn't look good! affirmingdemocracy.org #America250
#SusanneLanger would be 130 tday. "Meaning has both a logical & a psychological aspect. Psychologically, any item that is to have meaning must be employed as a sign or a symbol....Logically, it must be capable of conveying a meaning..." #philosophy buff.ly/YubQk4c
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#SusanneLanger would be 130 tday. "Meaning has both a logical & a psychological aspect. Psychologically, any item that is to have meaning must be employed as a sign or a symbol....Logically, it must be capable of conveying a meaning..." #philosophy buff.ly/YubQk4c
Happy 162nd bday, G. #Santayana. "A philosopher is compelled to follow the maxim of epic poets & to plunge in medias res. The origin of things, if things have an origin, cannot be revealed to me, if revealed at all, until I have travelled very far from it." #philosophy buff.ly/A3KBPUb
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy 162nd bday, G. #Santayana. "A philosopher is compelled to follow the maxim of epic poets & to plunge in medias res. The origin of things, if things have an origin, cannot be revealed to me, if revealed at all, until I have travelled very far from it." #philosophy buff.ly/A3KBPUb
M #Cavendish died tday 1673. "In every Regular Human Society, there is a Passionate Love amongst the...Parts, like...Brethren in one Family or Subjects in one Nation...So the Parts of a Human Creature...love one another, and therefore do endeavour to keep their Society from dissolving." #philosophy
Cavendish, Margaret | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, was a philosopher, poet, playwright and essayist. Her philosophical writings were concerned mostly with issues of metaphysics and natural…
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December 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
M #Cavendish died tday 1673. "In every Regular Human Society, there is a Passionate Love amongst the...Parts, like...Brethren in one Family or Subjects in one Nation...So the Parts of a Human Creature...love one another, and therefore do endeavour to keep their Society from dissolving." #philosophy
#AnneFinchConway born tday in 1631. "But yet in Nature, and her Operations...is not a mere Organical Body, like a Clock, wherein there is not a vital Principle of Motion; but a living Body, having Life and Sense, which Body is far more sublime than a mere Mechanism." #philosophy buff.ly/cfObzXW
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#AnneFinchConway born tday in 1631. "But yet in Nature, and her Operations...is not a mere Organical Body, like a Clock, wherein there is not a vital Principle of Motion; but a living Body, having Life and Sense, which Body is far more sublime than a mere Mechanism." #philosophy buff.ly/cfObzXW
Happy bday 136, G. #Marcel. "Participation-feeling is beyond the traditional opposition of activity and passivity; to feel is not to endure, but to receive (in the sense of receiving into one's self—to receive willingly, to welcome, to embrace), and to receive is an act." #philosophy buff.ly/AQ1yy6j
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy bday 136, G. #Marcel. "Participation-feeling is beyond the traditional opposition of activity and passivity; to feel is not to endure, but to receive (in the sense of receiving into one's self—to receive willingly, to welcome, to embrace), and to receive is an act." #philosophy buff.ly/AQ1yy6j
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Some in the Democratic Party want to you think we must choose between social justice and economic populism.
Rubbish.
The only path forward is embracing both.
Rubbish.
The only path forward is embracing both.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Some in the Democratic Party want to you think we must choose between social justice and economic populism.
Rubbish.
The only path forward is embracing both.
Rubbish.
The only path forward is embracing both.
Happy bday 226, #AmosBronsonAlcott. "So Speech represents the flowing essence as sensitive, transitive; the word signifying what we make it at the moment of using, but needing life's rounded experiences to unfold its manifold senses and shades of meaning." #philosophy buff.ly/yTPtlaD
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy bday 226, #AmosBronsonAlcott. "So Speech represents the flowing essence as sensitive, transitive; the word signifying what we make it at the moment of using, but needing life's rounded experiences to unfold its manifold senses and shades of meaning." #philosophy buff.ly/yTPtlaD
Friedrich #Engels born today in 1820. "The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure" #philosophy buff.ly/GG6ltNN
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Friedrich #Engels born today in 1820. "The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure" #philosophy buff.ly/GG6ltNN
Happy #EvacuationDay2025! On this date in 1783, the British evacuated NYC at the end of the Revolutionary War. Today, it's time to evacuate King Donald! #Trump #Revolution #Indivisible buff.ly/HBIYwjP
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Happy #EvacuationDay2025! On this date in 1783, the British evacuated NYC at the end of the Revolutionary War. Today, it's time to evacuate King Donald! #Trump #Revolution #Indivisible buff.ly/HBIYwjP
#AliceAmbrose born 119 yrs ago. "An inconsistency can be discovered by inspection of the concepts...but a falsity requires for its discovery observation of fact. Simple reasoning on the concepts discloses inconsistency, but the use of one's senses is requisite to discover a falsity." #philosophy
Alice Ambrose - Wikipedia
Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz (November 25, 1906 – January 25, 2001) was an American philosopher, logician, and author.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#AliceAmbrose born 119 yrs ago. "An inconsistency can be discovered by inspection of the concepts...but a falsity requires for its discovery observation of fact. Simple reasoning on the concepts discloses inconsistency, but the use of one's senses is requisite to discover a falsity." #philosophy
Happy 393rd birthday, B. #Spinoza. "God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things." #philosophy buff.ly/6uqScHY
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy 393rd birthday, B. #Spinoza. "God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things." #philosophy buff.ly/6uqScHY
#Voltaire born today in 1694. "After the assertions of the most ancient philosophers...what remains to us? A chaos of doubts and chimeras. I believe that there never was a philosopher of a system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had lost his time." #philosophy buff.ly/xngzyzy
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#Voltaire born today in 1694. "After the assertions of the most ancient philosophers...what remains to us? A chaos of doubts and chimeras. I believe that there never was a philosopher of a system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had lost his time." #philosophy buff.ly/xngzyzy
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
W. #Dilthey born tday in 1833. "When viewed historically, every solution of a philosophical problem belongs to a situation present at that time. Man, this temporal creature, maintains the security of his existence...by lifting his creations out of the temporal flux as enduring objects." #philosophy
Wilhelm Dilthey - Wikipedia
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
W. #Dilthey born tday in 1833. "When viewed historically, every solution of a philosophical problem belongs to a situation present at that time. Man, this temporal creature, maintains the security of his existence...by lifting his creations out of the temporal flux as enduring objects." #philosophy
J. #Maritain would be 143 tday. "Society appears, therefore, to provide the human person with just those conditions of existence and development which it needs. It is not by itself alone that it reaches its plenitude but by receiving essential goods from society." #philosophy buff.ly/BJwTyE9
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
J. #Maritain would be 143 tday. "Society appears, therefore, to provide the human person with just those conditions of existence and development which it needs. It is not by itself alone that it reaches its plenitude but by receiving essential goods from society." #philosophy buff.ly/BJwTyE9
Happy bday 130, M. #Bakhtin. "The dialogic orientation...is a property of any discourse...On all its various routes toward the object...the word encounters an alien word and cannot help encouraging it in a living, tension-filled interaction." #philosophy buff.ly/gy7KWWS
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy bday 130, M. #Bakhtin. "The dialogic orientation...is a property of any discourse...On all its various routes toward the object...the word encounters an alien word and cannot help encouraging it in a living, tension-filled interaction." #philosophy buff.ly/gy7KWWS
#St.Augustine born 1671 yrs ago. "For whoever possesses & loves a good will and... opposes the things that are hostile to it, is incapable of wishing evil for anyone. So it will follow that he does not harm anyone—& this can be the case only if he gives each man his due." #philosophy buff.ly/xcp7dkn
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#St.Augustine born 1671 yrs ago. "For whoever possesses & loves a good will and... opposes the things that are hostile to it, is incapable of wishing evil for anyone. So it will follow that he does not harm anyone—& this can be the case only if he gives each man his due." #philosophy buff.ly/xcp7dkn
Happy 359th bday, #MaryAstell. "For if Arbitrary Power is evil in itself, and an improper Method of Governing Rational and Free Agents, it ought not to be practis’d anywhere...If all Men are born Free, how is it that all Women are born Slaves?" #philosophy buff.ly/lwAttAi
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Happy 359th bday, #MaryAstell. "For if Arbitrary Power is evil in itself, and an improper Method of Governing Rational and Free Agents, it ought not to be practis’d anywhere...If all Men are born Free, how is it that all Women are born Slaves?" #philosophy buff.ly/lwAttAi
F. #Schiller would be 266 tday. "Both laws & religion are strengthened by a union with the stage, where virtue & vice, joy and sorrow, are thoroughly displayed in a truthful and popular way...where all secrets are unmasked, all artifice ends, & truth alone is the judge." #philosophy buff.ly/KtXcrPb
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
F. #Schiller would be 266 tday. "Both laws & religion are strengthened by a union with the stage, where virtue & vice, joy and sorrow, are thoroughly displayed in a truthful and popular way...where all secrets are unmasked, all artifice ends, & truth alone is the judge." #philosophy buff.ly/KtXcrPb
#IbnHazm would be 1031. "Love exercises...a decisive sovereignty over the soul; its commands cannot be opposed, its ordinances may not be flouted, its rule is not to be transgressed; it demands unwavering obedience, and against its dominion there is no appeal." #philosophy buff.ly/dIYYiTy
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#IbnHazm would be 1031. "Love exercises...a decisive sovereignty over the soul; its commands cannot be opposed, its ordinances may not be flouted, its rule is not to be transgressed; it demands unwavering obedience, and against its dominion there is no appeal." #philosophy buff.ly/dIYYiTy
Happy 112th bday, Albert #Camus. "Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone until a later time." #philosophy buff.ly/I3BHG9O
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Happy 112th bday, Albert #Camus. "Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone until a later time." #philosophy buff.ly/I3BHG9O