courage

Ludwig Wittgenstein

political correctness

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Spanish Civil War

politician

nationality

Polish

French

is nine-tenths context, and what is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

is a thinker who lived on the borders of madness most of his life.

What is it about the study of philosophy that tends to make brilliant minds stupid when it comes down to what are known as actual cases? Consider Martin Heidegger, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the four great names in twentieth-century philosophy: the first was a Nazi, the second died certain that America was responsible for all the world’s evil, the third was a Stalinist long after any justification for being so could be adduced, and the fourth lived on the borders of madness most of his life. Contemplation of the lives of philosophers is enough to drive one to the study of sociology.

is the adolescent devotion of one's attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined. Joseph Epstein

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Joseph Epstein