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Stephen Downes

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I read the Essays of Michel de Montaigne in 1989 and was moved and influenced by both the form and the content. So I celebrate the current project,  Sebastian Biot's HyperEssays, "a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne." It's worth noting that the term 'essay' originates from the French 'essai', which means an attempt or a trial. Putting one's beliefs on trial was the whole point of the Essays, an idea that later became the archetypical Cartesian scepticism.

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