Peter Blair
@PeterAWBlair
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Associate Vice President of University Partnerships @Veritasforum | Formerly @Thomisticinst & @Aminterest
Philadelphia, PA
Joined March 2013
“In the pure beholding of what is simply given, the soul finds its deepest rest.” - Edmund Husserl (Ideas I, §27)
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This is a moving reading of Dai Greatcoat's boast from David Jones's brilliant In Parenthesis:
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my longtime theory that every single worthy and distinctive character trait once attributed to Generation X is now concentrated entirely within Ethan Hawke gets another data point. look at him he’s practically vibrating with demographic signification
Ethan Hawke tells @thattracysmith that he’s “bored by AI,” saying he prefers real human connection. He calls AI a “plagiarizing mechanism” and jokes that while he knows it’s changing the world, he’s in “open rebellion” against it. https://t.co/LZ9EYLReGr
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Turns out being the author of this tweet was--along with several other measures--a great way to get students to write their own papers
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One of the best recordings of Sibelius's piano music (Tip for NYC mutuals, Andsnes will be performing at Carnegie Hall with a fine program in January)
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I'm actually getting a bit choked up as student after student seems to have chosen to learn. Maybe we're not so cooked.
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“It would be hard to count the number of times the death of the novel has been announced, in tragic tones. But despite its execution new novels continue to appear, some of them quite good ones” -Leszek Kołakowski
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Of Gods and Men
What's a low key Christmas movie that is not Die Hard? No obvious ones.
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Anyway, I bought too many things but here are some of the fun titles I found
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Based on what I saw his obsessions included Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, everything from ancient Greece and Rome, the history of philosophy, and the island of Newfoundland.
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I went to the sale today of his books and it was an absolutely insane experience.
A deceased Philly lawyer found to have owned ~100,000 books, including "The Quantum Theory of Fields, Manual of Vascular Plants, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, The Art of Dying Well, Ulysses, Why Bob Dylan Matters, & Leading a Human Life." https://t.co/GI6FMYzNOO
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Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally, and enter into authentic relationships with others.
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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CARE OF OUR COMMON HOME” ORGANIZED BY THE CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTIFICE FOUNDATION AND THE...
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“We simply like knowing things, quite apart from any practical benefits to be derived from knowledge; we like truth for no better reason than that it is truth. Without the joy of truth we would no longer be rational creatures” -Leszek Kołakowski
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That’s right
Happy Thanksgiving
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