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Negotiation → negotium otium
While watching the news about the recent negotiations happening in DC, I thought about negotiation and the word’s etymology. One might think that it has something to do with discussion or business, but the root is much funnier, in my opinion. Negotiation is actually a negative of a Latin word, otium. Though the positive has…
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Roman attitudes vs. Christian attitudes towards the divine
In a book I discovered at a used bookstore (Grey Matter, which I strongly recommend) in New Haven a while back, I found something interesting about how people today and how Romans thought of the divine very differently. I think the discrepancy makes ancient religion so fundamentally unlike modern religion that ancient religion simply cannot…
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Money: Source of Evil or Benefit to Society?
What I would like to investigate is the biblical idea of the love of money being the root of evil, and not money itself. I was led to think about this idea due to a seminar regarding utopia where many of my peers seemed very opposed to the idea of money in a hypothetical utopia.…