Tag: Coleridge
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September 15, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“The mind’s dignity is to acknowledge that it is limited and that reality is outside it.”
Fernando Pessoa’s The Education of the Stoic is a thought-project based on the construct of a fully rational self through the fictional persona of The Baron of Teive. From the beginning, the text unsettles the reader. In a book that attempts to define a self,