Category Archives: Socratic Method

Utopia

Posted on September 6, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia. The lower left-hand corner shows the traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus, describing the island. Utopia (pronounced /juːˈtoʊpiə/) is a name for an ideal community or society possessing a seemingly perfect socio–politico–legal system.[1] … Continue reading →

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Stargazers and Hill Climbers

Posted on February 13, 2009 by PlatoHagel

AS with Einstein, who was Socrates daemon?:) In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion (literally, a “divine something”)[6] that frequently warned him – in the form of a “voice” – against mistakes but never told him … Continue reading →

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Plato and Justice

Posted on October 23, 2008 by PlatoHagel

A just society must be governed by men of reason.Inventing a new social myth to replace the old. Socrates calls those who rule for the benefit of the whole society and not to it’s detriment golden men: in his myth … Continue reading →

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William Thurston

Posted on August 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Xianfeng David Gu and Shing-Tung YauTo a topologist, a rabbit is the same as a sphere. Neither has a hole. Longitude and latitude lines on the rabbit allow mathematicians to map it onto different forms while preserving information. William Thurston … Continue reading →

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TagCrowd

Posted on May 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Just thought I’d try it. <!–begin tag cloud : generated by TagCrowd.comFeel free to modify as long as you keep this notice. This code and its rendered image are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ For commercial … Continue reading →

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The Socratic method

Posted on May 5, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Death of Socrates by Jacques Davidthis picture depicts the closing moments of the life of Socrates. Condemned to death or exile by the Athenian government for his teaching methods which aroused scepticism and impiety in his students, Socrates heroicly rejected … Continue reading →

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Realities of the Suppression of Present Moments

Posted on May 4, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I thought I would pull the two comments I made in Backreactions thread,”Every Now and Then” to maintain the consistency, and direction the post was going. One called the “Socratic method” will become the subject of a new post. The … Continue reading →

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Glaucon

Posted on March 15, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Glaucon (Greek: Γλαύκων) (born circa 445 BC) son of Ariston, was the philosopher Plato’s older brother. He is primarily known as a major conversant with Socrates in the Republic (Plato), and the questioner during the Allegory of the Cave. He … Continue reading →

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The Soul=λόγος,θυμος,ἔρως

Posted on February 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

21 Grams The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. MacDougall … Continue reading →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. Aristotle took a more moderate view, that both emotion and reason … Continue reading →

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