philosophy
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What if the ancient Art of Memory was about far more than remembering? For classical and Renaissance thinkers, memory could be constructed as an architecture: familiar places filled with vivid images, through which knowledge could be stored, ordered and recovered. But during the Renaissance, this ancient mnemonic technique developed into something considerably more ambitious. In…
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The requirement for a candidate to hold a belief in a supreme being is a fundamental prerequisite for becoming a Freemason. While there are exceptions, such as the Grand Orient in France, where for a number of historical reasons beyond the scope of tonight’s paper this is not the case, belief in Deity is central…
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