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Nero’s End, Hospers’ Beginning

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Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide on this day in June, 68 AD, ending Rome’s Julio-​Claudian Dynasty, later written about with verve by Suetonius and Robert Graves. 

Also on June 9, James Oglethorpe received a charter from the British crown to start the Georgia colony (1732); William Jennings Bryan resigned his position as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, disgusted over the handling of the sinking of the Lusitania (1915); philosopher John Hospers — who would go on to run as a Libertarian candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1972 — was born in 1918 on the ninth of June.

Hospers was famous for his work in ethics and aesthetics, but his most-​read book was probably his Introduction to Philosophical Analysis.

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