Jakub Ferencik

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Author of two books: "Up in the Air: Christianity. Atheism & the Global Problems of the 21st Century" & "Beyond Reason: Why We Fail at Understanding Each Other." Contributed to MLI and Disinfowatch. Currently writing as a Research Assistant for EUROPEUM Prague.

Blog with over 500 articles on philosophy, religion, and politics. Podcast on Spotify and other streaming platforms, titled "Up in the Air."

BA in political science and philosophy from UBC in Canada. Presently, doing an MA at McGill University, Montreal, in History, paying particular focus on the emergence of populism in formerly Warsaw Pact states, especially the Visegrad Group.
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“In fact, in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won.”
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Peter Singer
“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”
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Aristotle
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
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“Be the kind of person who takes supplements -- then skip the supplements.”
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