Dialogos of Eide/Home

  • Let no one ignorant of geometry enter

    Plato’s Motto The scho­liast on Aelius Aris­tides 125.14 (Din­dorf, Vol. 3) says the fol­low­ing: ἐπεγέγραπτο ἔμπροσθεν τῆς διατριβῆς τοῦ Πλάτωνος ὅτι ἀγεωμέτρητος μηδεὶς εἰσίτω· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἄνισος καὶ ἄδικος. ἡ γὰρ γεωμετρία τὴν ἰσότητα καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην τηρεῖ. ‘In front of Plato’s school had been inscribed, “Let noone enter un-geometried” rather than “unequal” or “unjust,”…

  • Setting Time Aright

    Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. — Albert Einstein While Event has since past, I hope the lecture itself will remain in public domain. It helps so as to see the context of the discussion provided by this conference with regard to that subject of…

  • Utopia

    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] The word was invented by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a…

  • Stargazers and Hill Climbers

    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 what to do See:Fullerane and Allotropes Some may even call “hills” mountains. Depends on where…

  • Plato and Justice

    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 they rightfully govern the men of silver and bronze. This is the myth of metals(415a…

  • William Thurston

    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 of Cornell, the author of a deeper conjecture that includes Poincaré’s and that is now…

  • TagCrowd

    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 licensing, contact Daniel Steinbock, daniel@steinbock.org–> article aspect become blog brain clock context death dialogos eide…

  • The Socratic method

    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 exile and accepted death from hemlock. Self portrait of Jacques-Louis David, 1794, Musée du Louvre…

  • Realities of the Suppression of Present Moments

    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 other is listed below, and reference slides picked out to support statements made in blog…

  • Glaucon

    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 is also referenced briefly in the beginnings of the dialogues of Plato Parmenides (Plato) and…

  • The Soul=λόγος,θυμος,ἔρως

    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 weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and…