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Love as Moral Luck

Love as Moral Luck

This essay was originally published by Eli Parra on his blog. My challenge here will be to distill for you a transcendent essay by Zadie Smith that changed my life in many ways, starting with making me read the massive novel from 1871 that it’s about. I’m writing

The Great Books and Thinkers Not Always Know Best

The Great Books and Thinkers Not Always Know Best

This essay was originally published by Nicolás Forero on his Substack. Too often, I fail to solve my problems because I focus on solutions from people or work I feel inferior to. Meno is a Socratic dialogue about the origin of virtue between Socrates and Meno, a Thessalian General. On