Need some readings on Aquinas? Well, even if one doesn't, these books are good.
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Zita Toth
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Zita Toth
@zvtoth
Lecturer at @kingsphilosophy. Medieval philosophy, early music, history of science.
London Katılım Mart 2023
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@SaraLUckelman It's like the formal distinction – neither one, nor two.
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It just occurred to me how odd it is that you use the same piece of punctuation (the hyphen, - ) to break up one word into two pieces and to combine two words into one piece.
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I honestly wonder how much that existential thought is taken seriously. Not sure I really have, even though I’ve had visceral reminders.
(Like now…)
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Philosophy as a way of life.
Philosophy as preparation for death.
Preparation for death as a way of life.
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Apparently, there is a Latin form of supercalifragilistic....... .
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Whether or not Shakespeare really did have “small Latin”, it’s certain that he has the longest word attested in Latin – "honorificabilitudinitatibus" – which stands in turn as the longest word in English that alternates consonants and vowels (27 letters). Here’s the back story:🧵
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I'll be teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for the first time this autumn. Any tips, online ressources and/or documents? #medievaltwitter
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@brunellus I always forget about that book! I don't have it but probably should. Yes, good for us :).
FWIW, I found the "Mr Crombie" equally surprising (or perhaps more, given the time). But I'm sure there is some "code" behind the titles.
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@zvtoth Yes, annoyingly I can’t find my copy of Women Medievalists and the Academy – probably buried in a box in a self-storage unit in Dundee – but my recollection is that she preferred to beaver away at her manuscript research in the Vatican (a decision for which we must be grateful!).
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Boring #AcademicTwitter again, but I'm re-reading a(n otherwise excellent) paper from the 1960s, and couldn't fail to notice how the author refers to his interlocutors: "Professor Clagett," "Dr Moody," "Miss Maier." (For the full truth, we do get a "Mr Crombie" as well.) ...
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@brunellus Wow, this is hilarious.
(I didn't know she didn't take up the professorship, there must be some story behind that – I only checked on Wikipedia.)
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@zvtoth An amusing coda for those familiar with the dramatis personae: in 1973, when Speculum published a notice of Maier’s death – both as “Miss Maier” and as “Dr Maier” (she never took up the professorship at Köln, so fair enough?) – the notice was co-authored by one “Ernest A. Woody”.
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@orlandochoir Thank you all for the great concert, it was really fun singing with everyone :).
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Summer solstice - tick! And what better way to celebrate the first day of summer than tonight, with us, here?
Remember: 🌧🌨⛅️🌤🌞🌻🌷🪻⚘️🌻orlandochoir.org.uk/events
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@FromPhDtoLife I started rockclimbing when I was finishing my PhD. Sport is difficult for me for various reasons, and I was never going to be good at it. But it taught me how to enjoy things I'm not good at – something I still struggle with sometimes, but find quite useful in academia too.
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PhD folks -- do your hobbies teach you things that carry over into your professional life? Give us details! You might inspire others.
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Just heard Spem in alium with the @TallisScholars, and what else would one need for a Tuesday evening?
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@Helenreflects @TheAnnaGat Infinite Jest – which I'm still slightly unsure about whether it was worth the effort, but glad I finished it.
Daniel Deronda – definitely worth the effort (less effort than Middlemarch).
Gödel, Escher, Bach – pretty annoying at times, but overall very glad I read it.
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@DanBatovici That's great, congrats – and maybe we can catch up in the UK!
(Also, on a completely different note, a student of mine is going to email you with some Eriugena questions, when he feels prepared enough for it.... He found you on the Eriugena network website. Just the heads up.)
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It's raining! And we all know what comes from rain 🙂: 🌻🌷🪻⚘️🌹
orlandochoir.org.uk/events
Tickets available online and ondoor - see you there (this Thursday)!
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⭐️Applications for studentships and bursaries now open⭐️
The Royal Institute of Philosophy offers Jacobsen studentship and bursaries for postgraduate research.
The deadline to apply is 2nd July.
Please share with those who might be interested.
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FWIW, this sums up my experience pretty well... but it also seems inevitable, given human nature & the circumstances.
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Having spent a brief amount of time on this forum, it is really puzzling to me how some people don't want to be understood by those who disagree with them. Perhaps because I tend to think that no one is inherently stupid or inherently very bad, I find disagreement fascinating /1
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