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484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
Leontius (Greek: Λεόντιος, romanized: Leòntios; died 488) was a general of the Eastern Roman Empire and claimant to the throne who led a rebellion against emperor Zeno in 484–488.
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810 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (d. 870)
Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari (Arabic: محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري, romanized: Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī, 21 July 810 – 1 September 870),[note 1] commonly referred to as Imām al-Bukhāri or Imām Bukhāri, was a 9th-century Persian Muslim muhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam. Al-Bukhari’s extant works include the hadith collection Sahih al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir, and Al-Adab al-Mufrad.
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By Open Culture: How to Spot Bullshit: A Manual by Princeton Philosopher Harry Frankfurt (RIP)
Harry Gordon Frankfurt (May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023) was an American philosopher. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002.[1] Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University.
Frankfurt made significant contributions to fields like ethics and philosophy of mind. The attitude of caring played a central role in his philosophy. To care about something means to see it as important and reflects the person’s character. According to Frankfurt, a person is someone who has second-order volitions or who cares about what desires he or she has. He contrasts persons with wantons. Wantons are beings that have desires but do not care about which of their desires is translated into action. In the field of ethics, Frankfurt gave various influential counterexamples, so-called Frankfurt cases, against the principle that moral responsibility depends on the ability to do otherwise. His most popular book is On Bullshit, which discusses, among other things, the distinction between bullshitting and lying.
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By Paula Marantz Cohen, Edited by Pam Weintraub, AEON: To converse well A good conversation bridges the distances between people and imbues life with pleasure and a sense of discovery
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