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Editor’s Note: The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes by Andrew Pessin is now available here. Ours is a life that is entirely out of our control. Lots of things determine what choices we make: hunches, personality, our beliefs and desires, the laws of nature, etc. And it turns out we don’t control any of
READ MOREEditor’s Note: These 5 real characters (and suspects!) appear in Andrew Pessin’s historical murder mystery The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes. Click here to order your copy. 1. Sweden’s Queen Christina (1626-89) Her Majesty invited Descartes to Sweden to become her “Court Philosopher,” and shortly thereafter he was dead. Considering that she was the
READ MOREEditor’s Note: The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes by Andrew Pessin is now available here. Socrates: Another philosopher whose ideas caused troubles great and small… If you saw him on the street you’d probably cross to the other side. And yet before him, there was nothing; while after him, there’s all of Western philosophy.
READ MOREEditor’s Note: The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes by Andrew Pessin is now available here. The “father of modern philosophy,” René Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden, in 1649, to become her personal tutor. What she neglected to mention was that she wanted her daily lessons at 5 in the morning, in
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