The $2 bill features portraits of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who can be regarded, among other things, as having been philosophes in the 18th century, Enlightenment sense.
Jim F.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] separation of state and culture Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:00:31 -0400
>
> On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:44 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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>> One thing that Kurlansky points out, which I'd never thought of
>> before, is that among western republics the u.s. is almost unique in
>> that there isn't one artist, author, composer, or philosopher on our
>> currency.
But there is one. Ben Franklin was a world-famous natural philosopher (the 19th century term for scientist) and a pretty damn successful author as well.
> And it does put loads of them on postage stamps.
>
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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