http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Solzhenitsyn Posts tagged with 'Solzhenitsyn' at MetaFilter. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:33:52 -0800 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:33:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/84050/Without%2DGuilt%2Dand%2DJustice "<a href="http://taimur.sarangi.info/wgaj-1">Humanity craves but dreads autonomy.</a>" – <a href="http://taimur.sarangi.info/wgaj">Without Guilt &amp; Justice</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(philosopher)">Walter Kaufmann</a> argues that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidophobia">decidophobes</a> employ ten strategies in order to avoid indecisive dizziness. He cites <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73812/Solzhenitsyn-dead-at-89">Solzhenitsyn</a> as an individual who demonstrated autonomy through "the most awesome courage". tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84050 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:33:52 -0800 autonomy decidophobia foodforthought philosophy solzhenitsyn tldr walterkaufmann ageispolis http://www.metafilter.com/73812/Solzhenitsyn%2Ddead%2Dat%2D89 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a> has died. ( <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm">BBC</a> ) The great author and opponent of totalitarianism lived to see the end of Communism in the Soviet Union and almost everywhere else. He survived WWII as a commander in the Soviet army before being put into gulags where he spent 20 years. He went on to write the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag_Archipelago">Gulag Archipelago</a> and win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73812 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:18:04 -0800 Nobel obituary Russia Solzhenitsyn Soviet Union sien