Category Archives: Trivium

When House is Home

Posted on June 11, 2025 by PlatoHagel

Platohagel: Dreamers will now have a way to understand this house. Socrates: Yes, Platohagel — now the dreamers have a map not of walls, but of awakenings. A house whose rooms are thresholds of the soul, whose ascent is not … Continue reading →

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The House of Spiritual Resonance

Posted on June 11, 2025 by PlatoHagel

Platohagel: I was confused by your assessment of the peak, yet it is not insignificant to me. All souls enter the house through the doorway and if ascension is through different rooms then it is an entering through the different … Continue reading →

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Pre-Socratic Knowledge Foundation

Posted on August 27, 2024 by PlatoHagel

Platohagel: I wonder if this pyramidal image was in Plato’s thoughts as he sought to create the first elemental structure of all matter orientated states of existence? Socrates: It’s compelling to consider the possibility that Plato might have been influenced … Continue reading →

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Seven Virtues Origins: Synthesis

Posted on May 17, 2024 by PlatoHagel

Behold, an image of a gathering within the sanctity of a grand medieval church, with scholars deeply engaged in study and discussion. This scene might evoke the setting of monastic communities where theologians and philosophers dedicated themselves to the pursuit … Continue reading →

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First Alcibiades

Posted on May 21, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Papyrus fragment of Alcibiades I, section 131.c-e. The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ) is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato, although scholars are divided on the question of its … Continue reading →

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Correlation of Cognition

Posted on April 5, 2012 by PlatoHagel

I highlight the term “correlation” as a recognition of what is possible through cognition also think of Relativism why push Searle? ….Correlation of Cognition was a term I applied back then to try and understand this process as an intuitive … Continue reading →

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Justified true belief

Posted on April 2, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Before Gettier, an historical account brings one up to date? Euler diagram representing a definition of knowledge. Justified true belief is one definition of knowledge that states in order to know that a given proposition is true, one must not … Continue reading →

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The Lived Past and the Anticipated Future.

Posted on January 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture — religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. And it is within that culture that we really can get … Continue reading →

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"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter"

Posted on September 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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Know Thyself (γνώθι σεαυτόν )

Posted on September 5, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A stained glass window with the contracted version γνωθι σαυτόν. The saying “Know thyself” may refer by extension to the ideal of understanding human behavior, morals, and thought, because ultimately to understand oneself is to understand other humans as well. … Continue reading →

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