Eve Roberts

Eve Roberts

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2025-11-12 00:00:18

Introducing a New Home for Getty’s Stories
Scribe Writing (Detail), probably Eadmer of Canterbury, about 1140–1150; Tempera colors, gold paint, and ink on parchment, Leaf: 7 × 4 1/4 in., Ms. Ludwig XI 6 (83.MN.125), fol. 2v Ten years ago, we held a contest, asking Getty staff to name our brand new blog. The winner was “The Iris,” because it signified seeing,...

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2025-11-06 00:00:15

Lessons in Magick: When Giants Fall
Death does not occur one, singular time in our lives. Sure. There is a death that is a finale, there is no coming back from. None of us can escape that physical, biological ending. Well, I mean, you know what I mean. Reincarnation beliefs and such aside. There are multiple tiny deaths we experience throughout life. And, sadly, no, I am not referring to la petite...

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2025-11-05 00:00:22

TYRANNIES OF THE MAJORITY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Subscribe to our monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing PhilosophyTYRANNIES OF THE MAJORITY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: Segregation, Voter Suppression, and Gerrymandering 1. Justifiable limits to majority power In his famous book On Liberty, John Stuart Mill writes that ancient concerns about...

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2025-11-05 00:00:20

EVIL -- The Killing of Tyre Nichols
Subscribe to our monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy EVILI assume that everyone reading this blog post knows about the January 5, 2023 brutal beating and subsequent death of 19-year-old Tyre Nichols by six members of the Memphis Tennessee police department.[1] In a recent...

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2025-11-05 00:00:20

THOMAS HOBBES, CHATgpt AND PLAGIARISM
Subscribe to my monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy THOMAS HOBBES, CHATgpt, and PLAGIARISMI was hoping that the headline would attract your attention. What does Thomas Hobbes have to do with AI? His Leviathan was published in 1651, long before anyone could imagine that...

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2025-11-05 00:00:19

WOKE IDEAS, DRAG QUEENS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Subscribe to my monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy WOKE IDEAS, DRAG QUEENS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM A man is convicted in a court of law for the crime of murder. He is sentenced to life in prison. Another man in ancient times named Socrates is convicted of corrupting the youth...

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2025-11-05 00:00:17

SHOULD DONALD TRUMP BE DISQUALIFIED FROM EVER RUNNING AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT?
Free copies of Laurence Houlgate's Understanding Philosophy available at www.houlgatebooks.comUnderstanding Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionDonald Trump Golfing at Bedminster in 2022Here is a question that should be asked by every philosophy professor in their classrooms this term: Should Donald J. Trump be permanently disqualified from holding any office,...

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2025-11-05 00:00:17

A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT, Part I. Guest Post by Merrill Ring
A Philosopher Reads the Second AmendmentMerrill Ring Part I Reply to ScaliaThe Second Amendment consists of two clauses. Interpretations of the amendment hinge upon how the relationship between those clauses is regarded. One type of interpretation, of which Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in District of Columbia v Heller is the paradigm, treats the first clause – “A...

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2025-11-05 00:00:16

A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT Part II Guest Post by Merrill Ring
A PHILOSOPHER READS THE SECOND AMENDMENT Merrill Ring Part II The Second Amendment and the Human Appendix So, what does the Second Amendment, the first clause of it, have to say about militias? Worries about whether its talk of militias is relevant to the understanding of the whole has led to a failure to consider carefully what is actually said about militias...

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2025-11-04 00:00:34

Mesopotamia: Tales from a Delayed Exhibition
Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins was installed at the Getty Villa in February and March 2020 but has not been open to visitors. Artworks in the exhibition include loans from Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Musée Auguste Grasset – Varzy. In July of 2019, a team of...

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2025-11-04 00:00:24

SOCRATES, LEONTIUS AND THE ANTI-VAXXERS
Subscribe to my monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy SOCRATES, LEONTIUS AND THE ANTI-VAXXERSIn Plato’s Republic, Socrates tells his interlocutor Glaucon a story about Leontius, the son of Aglaeon: “[Leontius] was going up from the Piraeus along the outside of the North wall when he saw...

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2025-11-04 00:00:21

WHAT IS FREE WILL? JOHN SEARLE vs THOMAS HOBBES
What is Free Will? John Searle v Thomas HobbesSeveral years ago former University of California philosophy professor John Searle posted a video on YouTube about the difficulty of finding a solution to the problem of free will. In the video, staged as an interview of Searle by an interlocutor, he begins with a description of the centuries old stand-off between philosophers who say we have...

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