Tag Archives: Philosophy

Liberal arts

Posted on February 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The Pyramid(as an expression of Liberal Arts Encapsulated) is a combination of  the Trivium , and  the Quadrivium My interest has been from a historical position about how such a system while it developed from that ancient perspective,  is still … Continue reading →

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Quadrivium

Posted on February 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The quadrivium comprised the four subjects, or arts, taught in medieval universities after the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning “the four ways” or “the four roads”. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts.[1] The quadrivium … Continue reading →

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Plato’s Problem and Meno: How Accurately Portrayed?

Posted on January 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that which he does not know? MENO: He has. SOCRATES: And at present these notions have just been stirred up in him, as in a dream; but … Continue reading →

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Plato’s Problem

Posted on January 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Plato’s problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of how we account for our knowledge when environmental conditions seem to be an insufficient source of information. It is … Continue reading →

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Meno

Posted on January 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Part of the series on:The Dialogues of Plato Early dialogues: Apology – Charmides – Crito Euthyphro – First Alcibiades Hippias Major – Hippias Minor Ion – Laches – Lysis Transitional & middle dialogues: Cratylus – Euthydemus – Gorgias Menexenus – … Continue reading →

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Primum movens

Posted on September 29, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Until all are one! Primus to his children, “Trap“ Primus is the “benevolent” godlike entity in the fictional Transformers comic universe who fought against the Chaos-Bringer Unicron.  *** Primum movens (Latin), usually referred to as the First Cause in English, … Continue reading →

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Telos (philosophy)

Posted on July 11, 2010 by PlatoHagel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Part of a series on Aristotle Aristotelianism[show] Peripatetic schoolphysicsethicsterm logicview of womenview of God (unmoved mover) Corpus Aristotelicum[show] PhysicsOrganonNicomachean EthicsPoliticsMetaphysicsOn the SoulRhetoricPoetics Ideas[show] Correspondence theory of truthhexisvirtue ethics (golden mean)four causestelostemporal finitismantiperistasisnaturepotentiality and actualityuniversals (substantial … Continue reading →

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Trivium:Three Roads

Posted on March 1, 2010 by PlatoHagel

  Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance.Sister Miriam Joseph  Painting … Continue reading →

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Economy, as Science

Posted on February 20, 2010 by PlatoHagel

A shift in paradigm can lead, via the theory-dependence of observation, to a difference in one’s experiences of things and thus to a change in one’s phenomenal world.ON Thomas Kuhn   Control the information you control the people?:) Again as … Continue reading →

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The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

Posted on February 12, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The problem of heat can be a frustrating one if one can contend with the computer chips and how this may of resulted in a reboot of the machine( or it’s death) into a better state of existence then what … Continue reading →

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