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#book-corner
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From the Book corner: Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds, and an octopus whose arms seem to think for themselves
This week's book from the Book corner is Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (2016). Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher of biology and a keen diver, and much of the book grew out of hours spent watching…
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From the Book corner: Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace, and attention as a moral act
This week's book is Gravity and Grace, and it is an unusual one. Simone Weil never wrote it. After her death in 1943, her friend Gustave Thibon arranged passages from the notebooks she had left with him under headings such as "Void…
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From the Book corner: the Tirukkural, and why a book of ethics ends with a book of love
This week's book from the Book corner is the Tirukkural, the Tamil classic attributed to Tiruvalluvar. Its date is uncertain; scholarly estimates run from a few centuries BCE to around 500 CE. The form is strict. It has 1,330 couplets (kuṟaḷ), arranged…
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