Tag Archives: Plato

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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Tattoos

Posted on July 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.” I never gave much thought to it before. I thought at this late stage in my life what affect could it possibly having coming now to the twilight years of my … 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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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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Oligarchy- A Historical Look from Plato’s Dialogues

Posted on August 30, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Backreaction: A little less conversation, a little more science please An Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía) is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royal, wealth, intellectual, family, military or … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name?

Posted on August 22, 2009 by PlatoHagel

The aim of dialogue in the academy is not merely to just state or assert one’s opinion. Simply asserting one’s opinion to one another has more in common with two dogs barking at each another than two people engaging in … Continue reading →

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

Posted on July 2, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein“ Some ruminations seem to settle in my mind, yet held by a wanting of scientific principal and treaty? Where in such a misinterpretation materialized that I could have … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear!… How Technology has Changed Things

Posted on February 21, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable … 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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γνώθι σεαυτόν

Posted on January 11, 2009 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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