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Pelagia

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Professor of philosophy, becoming a nun is not off the table yet (not a Jesse Singal follower, you are welcome to check)

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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Apparently, Darwin was a Slav!
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My paper on experts and trespassers that is part of a special issue 'Gatekeeping in science' edited by Eric Winsberg @ewinsberg.bsky.social and Katherine Dormandy is now out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Experts and trespassers: origins of experimental method, ‘craftization’ of science, and scientific expertise - Synthese
Synthese - Epistemic trespassers are often defined as individuals who have the expertise in one field but pass judgments, make assertions, and hold beliefs about the research and findings in...
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Just in time for Christmas break! 🎄📚My take on why we should read primary texts, old books, and go through original reports/findings even if we use LLMs for research (even if we use it a lot!). Spoiler: not bcs it's cheating. Enjoy! :) social-epistemology.com/2025/12/22/w...
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Why Should We Read Old Books in the Time of LLMs? (And, No, Not Because Using LLMs is Cheating), Ljiljana Radenovic
Recently on X (formerly Twitter), an account that promotes various uses of LLMs (Large Language Models) to their academic followers posted a thread on how to write 4,000 words of one’s PhD thesis in…
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Life goals: uncontactable 🙏
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
(From FB 😆)
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Sometimes the best way to face and sort out life difficulties is to take a break and read some metaphysics. Beside philosophical counseling I offer one-on-one philosophical tutoring too. www.lradenovic.com/tutoring.html
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Tutoring
I offer one-on-one philosophical tutoring. You can take with me courses on great philosophical figures such as Wittgenstein, or on specialized topics (e.g., Good Life), where we cover different...
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This is a piece I wrote early in the summer. It's on the sublime in Knut Hamsun's Pan. Those who subscribed to my Patreon page have seen it already but now it's open to everyone interested. Hope you enjoy it! social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/k...
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Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic Connections from Within, Ljiljana Radenovic
Knut Hamsun’s Pan is famous for its love story and the extraordinary psychological portrayal of infatuation. Its very title and the magical North, where wilderness seeps into human settlements…
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This is a piece I wrote early in the summer. It's on the sublime in Knut Hamsun's Pan. Those who subscribed to my Patreon page have seen it already but now it's open to everyone interested. Hope you enjoy it! social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/k...
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Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic Connections from Within, Ljiljana Radenovic
Knut Hamsun’s Pan is famous for its love story and the extraordinary psychological portrayal of infatuation. Its very title and the magical North, where wilderness seeps into human settlements…
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The mood
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Scenes from a marriage 😄 Me to hubby: Look, I got us this Zink/vitamin C supplement. You should take it too. It's good for immunity. Hubby: Nah I don't believe that it works but ok. Me: But you should believe! If you did it would work.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I'll do references when I am done writing. Me doing references:
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My new Patreon post: "In search of lost faith: Pascal, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy". Subscribe and enjoy! Link in the comments as always.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My new Patreon post! On magical healing, medical healing, and God's will in the Late Antiquity! The next one remains to be on Father Zosima (Dostovesky), Father Sergius (Tolstoy), and Pascal. Stay tuned and subscribe! www.patreon.com/posts/medici...
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Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
By thy gift, O Lord, we are set on fire, and are borne aloft: we burn, and we are on the way. We climb the ascents that are in the heart. With thy fire, with thy good fire, we burn and go on, for we go up to the peace of Jerusalem. --Augustine ⚓
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 05/07/2025
You helped will this into existence, you know...
A quick and dirty photoshop job of a toy "Barbie Dream House" with pink plastic chicken feet added to the bottom. Next to it are the words, "Barbie Yaga Dream Hut."
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My new Patreon post is out, please purchase or better yet subscribe! It's about Knut Hamsun's Pan, the Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, his experience of transcendence & the question "How did we become these lonely souls living under indifferent skies?" Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/knut-h...
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Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic Connections from Within | Classics with Pelagia
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along W.H. Auden December 1938
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime Though this might take me a little time. - W. H. Auden
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"Thanks, my God, for every heather bloom I have ever seen; they have been like small roses on my way, and I weep for love of them."
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In Hamsun's Pan Lieutenant makes a note that Edwarda wears the same dress & shoes as the day before but has a new hat ... and now I am worried that men have been lying to us all this time how they do not notice & do not care about such things. 😅
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dear friends, I wrote a piece in which I explain why I think reviving ancient views of phil life can work only partially for us today. I also explain why I think that bringing great books to the counseling table is the key to self-transformation. social-epistemology.com/2025/06/04/p...
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Prolegomena for a Philosophical Practice in the 21st Century, Ljiljana Radenovic
The history of modern-day philosophical counseling is short. It starts in the 1980s of the last century. Its official founder is the philosopher Gerd Achenbach, who became the first philosophical…
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Googling: village librarian, jobs
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
My thoughts on Aristotle & Huxley in the link below. Coming up next (mid June or so): K. Hamsun's Pan.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Based on what I see on my lines USA ministry of health and human services is all about making Galen great again. 🫤
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Is 'awfulizing', i.e. reasoning from bad to worst a fallacy? 😁 a) Yes, except for Slavs b) No, Slavs are right
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There are two views on semicolons: Vonnegut's and Le Guin's. Vonnegut's is winning but reconsider Le Guin's:
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There is this part in Andrei Rublev where he is asked to paint the judgment day but time drags on & he never starts & one of his co workers complains how they could have finished it long time ago all with demons, smoke, & fire. And Andrei shouts: But that's not the point!
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"We need to keep certain important stories within reach; there will be many times in our lives when we will need to review them and remind ourselves what our real values are." That would be me (reading myself today, not a bad thinker really 😁)
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The very last entry in Tolstoy's diary: Oct 29th, 1910 Sergey has arrived. Everything is the same, just worse. Just so I don't offend. And so I'm not mean. Right now I'm not.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is the three vol collection of all Dostoevsky's letters in which he mostly describes how broke he is, asks for money and promises to return it as soon his next manuscript is out.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
If we bring back the old meaning of scientia as a habit of mind, an intellectual virtue as opposed to set of doctrines & methodologies stored in the books or hard discs we might get clearer view of what ChatGPT (even far better one than today's) does & what it cannot do for us.
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Isaac Levitan @isaaclevitan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Above the eternal tranquility www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/ab…
Above the eternal tranquility
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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 15/05/2025
This should be excellent!
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
'Classics with Pelagia' is here! The first piece on Huxley & Aristotle is open to everyone. If you like it pls click "free to join" then upgrade to paid membership (5$ a month) to read monthly pieces. In June my thoughts on K. Hamsun's Pan are coming. Link in the comments!😊
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Johanna Schopenhauer to her son (1807): "If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying." (a rarely good FB find)
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease." Dostoevsky
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Scenes from a marriage Husband: This wardrobe is packed. Can't find anything here any more. Me: Yes. We need more space. Time to invade the apartment next to ours.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Every day the paper I am working on is getting worse just like life.
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How long before JD Vance coverts back to ... atheism? 😁
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our Orthodox household enjoyed the ceremony and likes the new Pope.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just found out about this from @pelagia.bsky.social "Philosophical counselling uses dialogue and reflection to help individuals confront life's challenges, moral dilemmas, and existential." - I find this interesting and cool as an idea! You can contact her there to find out more. www.lradenovic.com
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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Ouch! An argument against wearing earphones!
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Nothing but such general evils as threaten the whole community can disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or tear him from his bed. A murder may with impunity be committed under his window; he has only to put his hands to his ears and argue a little with himself" Rousseau
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If somebody is in contact with @mathonwy.bsky.social could you please let her now that I am not a Jesse Singal follower. Thank you!
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Define Cinema with an image (it's a gif but oh well :D)
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a lightning bolt strikes over a city at night with the words zuoam visible
ALT: a lightning bolt strikes over a city at night with the words zuoam visible
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New periods of pain - Emily Dickinson
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The slave’s dungeon is black, The way of things is iron, cold and hard, But in some corner of your prison yard There may be an old carelessness, a crack. The path is like an arrow, deadly straight, But in the cracks is God, who lies in wait. - Borges
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Soon to come 'Classics with Pelagia' on Patreon! Stay tuned! 😄
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Dear friends, Pelagia is back with a website! This time as a philosophical counselor. If you need me I am here. www.lradenovic.com
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Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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