philosophic
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Mr. Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, is the author of “Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
In two ponderous volumes the Tiger agilely avoids autobiography, memoirs, history; explains at great length his carefully reasoned atheism under such headings as: Abstraction; Myths; Religious Bargains and Their Results; Philosophic Doubt; Diffusion; Cosmogonies; Cosmology.
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The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities."
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Since 1948 Denison has fed its students a heavy diet of such broad courses as "Basic Philosophic and Religious Ideas" and "History of Western Civilization."
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Philosophic systems are necessarily very imperfect, otherwise there never would have been two systems in the world.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor