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Models.com - The faces of fashion - top model rankings, modeling, fashion and creative industry news. World Cup Philosophy: Germany vs France. This comic is an homage (or perhaps ripoff, if you are feeling less generous) of Monty Python's classic skit, "The Philosophers' Football Match".

World Cup Philosophy: Germany vs France

Sartre's "radical freedom" is explained in the notes on comic 17. Similarly, Derrida's joke is explained in the notes of comic 23. Hey, I have a limited subject matter, I'm going to reuse jokes, get used to it. Foucault was best known for his critiques of power structures, and for hyphenating words. Camus thought the world was "absurd". Nietzsche similarly believe the world itself had no meaning, but an individual could create meaning in his own life and exert it onto the world. Marx's line is a play on his famous quote "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. Kant believed there was the "phenomenal world" (i.e. the world of appearances) and the "noumenal world" (i.e. the world as it really is).

5 Magazine : House Music from Chicago, House Music for the World. On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics. Introduction That was an impossible-to-resist pitch, and I saw the movie.

On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics

The thing that resonated most with me–also the thing that my friend thought I had in common with the main character–was the idea that you could make a particular decision, and set yourself down a particular course of action, in order to make yourself become a particular kind of person. Tris didn’t join the Dauntless cast because she thought they were doing the most good in society, or because she thought her comparative advantage to do good lay there–she chose it because they were brave, and she wasn’t, yet, and she wanted to be. Bravery was a virtue that she thought she ought to have. If the graph of her motivations even went any deeper, the only node beyond ‘become brave’ was ‘become good.’ Beards Are Over. By Peter Lawrence Kane It’s suddenly possible to see past the beard, because the beard is everywhere.

Beards Are Over

It’s found its way onto the chin of just about every cultural context out there: Hollywood A-listers, Orthodox rabbis, organic farmers, Goldman Sachs CEOs, faux-lumberjacks, actual lumberjacks, television duck hunters, daddy bears, al-Qaeda jihadis, baseball players, and Matt Lauer. Once a rare, religious adornment that also had an extreme anti-establishment vibe, a beard can now be anything you want it to be.

But the beard’s days are numbered, at least in terms of any badass quotient. The field is too crowded. World Cup footballers' haircuts – an illustrated guide. Giveaway: Win tickets to the inaugural Not Dead Yet Fest. Giveaway: Win tickets to the inaugural Not Dead Yet Fest In just over a week, ten killer bands are taking over Thee Parkside for the inaugural Not Dead Yet Fest.

Giveaway: Win tickets to the inaugural Not Dead Yet Fest

Marking the first event in a series of mini festivals dedicated to uniting and championing the Bay Area’s intricately woven music community, NDYF will feature 10 bands–including Strange Vine, Cellar Doors, and some very special guests we’ll call Theee Rock Wolfz–for only $10! As if paying a dollar a band wasn’t a sweet enough deal, we are giving away four pairs of tickets to the party. To enter for a chance to win tickets to Not Dead yet Fest at Thee Parkside, email contest@thebaybridged.com with “NDYF” in the subject line and your full name in the body of the email. Winners will be selected at random and notified via email. Tags: Not Dead Yet Fest Lauren is a rock and roll enthusiast and writer from the San Fernando Valley. The 10-Minute Exercise That Will Help You Decide What To Do With Your Life.

I hated Manhattan when I came home.

The 10-Minute Exercise That Will Help You Decide What To Do With Your Life

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