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Panel 2
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terms
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notes
stolid
(en)
calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
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Literature, which had set itself up in order to bring theory to the unwashed undergraduates, in contradistinction to the English department, which was standing stolidly for reading the texts
cute. Caleb Crain
notable
5 years, 3 months ago
Literature, which had set itself up in order to bring theory to the unwashed undergraduates, in contradistinction to the English department, which was standing stolidly for reading the texts
cute. Caleb Crain
notable
5 years, 3 months ago
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[...] Nobody can get a proper undergraduate education. You'll never know in advance what that education should be. Regret is the feeling you have when you finally realize what the education is that you want. Right? And you're always going to come to that after it's too late. There is always going to be a Henry Adams moment. And so it's not bad to have regrets.
Caleb Crain
[...] Nobody can get a proper undergraduate education. You'll never know in advance what that education should be. Regret is the feeling you have when you finally realize what the education is that you want. Right? And you're always going to come to that after it's too late. There is always going to be a Henry Adams moment. And so it's not bad to have regrets.
Caleb Crain
chairotic
(en)
from kairos, an Ancient Greek word meaning the right, critical, or opportune moment
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I'm suspicious of the idea that there's a chairotic moment for certain books
strange
5 years, 3 months ago
I'm suspicious of the idea that there's a chairotic moment for certain books
strange
5 years, 3 months ago
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[...] sociology is partly about how people's agency or free will is exercised within limits that they didn't make, and I think people can find that distasteful about sociology, that it can seem deterministic. [...]
by Meghan Falvey
reminds me of Marx: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past"
[...] sociology is partly about how people's agency or free will is exercised within limits that they didn't make, and I think people can find that distasteful about sociology, that it can seem deterministic. [...]
by Meghan Falvey
reminds me of Marx: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past"
patristic
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to the church fathers or their writings
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