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Monday, February 26, 2024
Why are certain European languages so often spoken in Africa? (Answer: History)
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“A Declaration introducing into international relations certain uniform rules with reference to future occupations on the coast of the Afric...
Sunday, June 28, 2020
A few problems with Rousseau’s “The Social Contract”
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“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. H...
Friday, June 28, 2019
Rousseau's “Discourse on Inequality” is long on detail, but short on evidence …
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“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine,' and found people simple eno...
Friday, May 26, 2017
Where do I find Latin and Greek works in the original?
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You might try the Loeb Classical Library , described at Wikipedia here and found at this website here . (The rest of this post is about h...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Reflections on studying the history of languages (and how they change over time)
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So I recently read a book called "Historical Linguistics" (3rd edition) , by Winfred P. Lehmann , which talks about the way that...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Why I want to read philosophy in other languages
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It is well-known among my friends that I am a foreign language buff. Some of my friends also know that I am a philosophy buff as well. ...
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