Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)  “Nietzsche…had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was likely to live” ~ Sigmund Freud Time for the next in my zodiacal series of Philosophers, and we now come to Libra, for which I have chosen Friedrich Nietzsche, an influential thinker in modern […]

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Bernard Williams (1929 – 2003) “He understands what you’re going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections to it, and all the possible answers to all the possible objections, before you’ve got to the end of your own sentence.” ~ Gilbert Ryle Time for the next in my […]

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Karl Popper (1902 – 1994)   “I don’t know whether God exists or …. Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism – to admit that we don’t know and to search—is all right. … When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a […]

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau In this fourth in my philosophy series, I look at a Cancerian philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Birth Chart Traditionally, in a Cancerian chart, the mother’s influence is strong.  In the case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his mother’s influence is […]

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Blaise Pascal “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone” ~ Blaise Pascal This is the third of my new  series of occasional philosophy blogs.   I started with an Aries, Rene Descartes, a true Aries in every sense of the word, an individual and an initiator.  I then […]

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Albert Camus Author of “The Plague”(“La Peste”) Essayist, Novelist, Dramatist, Journalist, Philosopher Sales of Albert Camus’ novel of 1947 have rocketed these last few weeks, because of how much it says about our current struggle.  Though he lived much of his life in France, Camus was born in Algeria, and drew inspiration from episodes of […]

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David Hume (1711 -1776) This is the second of my new  series of occasional philosophy blogs.  As regular readers will know, I am studying for a certificate in the subject this year.  I started with an Aries, Rene Descartes, a true Aries in every sense of the word, an individual and an initiator.  I will […]

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Rene Descartes “His psychology is obscure, but I incline to think that he was a sincere Catholic, and wished to persuade the Church – in its own interests as well as in his – to be less hostile to modern science than it showed itself in the case of Galileo.” ~ Bertrand Russell, from “A […]

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