Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
Should Germany stop teaching Goethe? (Hmm, should the country stop teaching the works of their foremost philosopher and documentarian of beauty? Of course not.)
Weighing the pros and cons of the color black.
Henry Oliver on what made the Irish Enlightenment writers so influential.
“In Defense of Brutalism“. In full disclosure, I am not a fan of Brutalist architecture. I find the philosophy behind it to be illustrative of the hubris of mankind and our ludicrous faith in the idea of inevitable progress, along with an uncritical embrace of machine-driven technology. However, I remain open to other views on the potential aesthetic beauty of the architecture.
What was our understanding of the Moon during the Middle Ages?
Currently reading: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Have a creative weekend.
Image: A Still Life With Grapes And Peaches In A Basket, An Open Pomegranate, Plums, Black Grapes And More Peaches, All On A Marble Ledge. van Dael, Jan Frans. 1809.
