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Tag Archives: literature

Meet the Humanist Service Corps Team

August 18, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

As the team settles in and starts getting to work in Kukuo, it’s time to get to know them a little bit better. Naduah Wheeler Naduah Wheeler is a graduate […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

The Fiction Fallacy: Part 2, What Now?

January 27, 2015by Alexander Ioakimidis 2 Comments

In the first part of my exploration of the Fiction Fallacy, I argued that we cannot derive knowledge of the external world from fictions whatsoever. Now, it may occur to […]

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Art & Literature, Ethics & Philosophy

The Fiction Fallacy: Part 1, The Problem

December 30, 2014by Alexander Ioakimidis 2 Comments

In the day to day tedium of life, I often turn to fiction for comfort. I appeal to fictions in part because they help pass the time, and also because […]

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Art & Literature, Ethics & Philosophy

The Importance of Hard Science Fiction

October 14, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 12 Comments

For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]

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Art & Literature, Science & Nature

Why is Literature Important? The 3 Social Functions of Fiction

May 6, 2014by Paul Chiariello 5 Comments

What’s the purpose of literature?  Of fiction?  Of course it’s enjoyable – it sweeps our emotions this way and that and allows us to ‘experience’ so much beyond our everyday life.  […]

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Art & Literature, Politics & Culture

The Necessity of the Arts in Education

February 14, 2014by Harold A. Mesa 5 Comments

Exclusionary education is becoming more entrenched than ever. As governments across the nation slash budgets and continuously decrease funding for public education we begin to see its effects. Not only is the […]

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Politics & Culture

Playing the Godgame in Greece: Book Review of John Fowles’ “The Magus”

October 11, 2013by Leo Kozachkov 2 Comments

Happily nestled between spot 92 and 94 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 Best Novels, The Magus by John Fowles is a disorienting psychological thriller detailing the misadventures of […]

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Art & Literature, Book & Movie Reviews

To Walt Whitman, From Mark Twain

March 26, 2013by Guest Contributor Leave a comment

By Raj Gopal Rutgers University Here’s a letter from Mark Twain, perhaps the greatest American novelist, to Walt Whitman, perhaps the greatest American poet. It’s a movingly sincere ode to […]

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