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On intellectual styles: observations on the interface between personality and thought. We would have to imagine a slope in which the influence the personality exercises over thinking increases in proportion to the strength of several factors. The first would be age: in youth, personality plays an inordinate role in intellectual matters. This is largely because [ READ MORE ]
Given the role that, since Plato, animals have played in political rhetoric, what does it tell us that the barracuda — a fish always regarded as vile, predatory, mercenary; a shark lacking even the nobility and solitude of sharks — has been elevated into the panzoon of respectable animals[ READ MORE ]
