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  • 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…

  • Inside Out

    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 are integral parts of a complex human soul–a theory proposed by Aristotle in explicit opposition…

  • The Ring of Truth

    Savas Dimopoulos:Here’s an analogy to understand this: imagine that our universe is a two-dimensional pool table, which you look down on from the third spatial dimension. When the billiard balls collide on the table, they scatter into new trajectories across the surface. But we also hear the click of sound as they impact: that’s collision…

  • Whose who, in the School of Athens

    I was over visiting Clifford’s blog called Asymptotia this morning and notice a blog entry called, Heretics of Alexandria. Of course, what first came to mind is the “Library of Alexandria.” Clifford writes and paraphrases: This full length drama, set in Alexandria Egypt, 415 A.D. features the infamous Philosopher Hypatia, who has come into possession…

  • Universal Library

    Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is perhaps the oldest university in the world.” Can you imagine if one might have been restricted from the museums of history, based on what another might have thought of the person? To encourage such…

  • Bacon is Shakespeare?

    A modern day puzzle, becomes, blogger world signatures? Taken to a, “Whole….nother….Level. Creativity? Ways in which we allow “information” to travel through? Play the game? Allow “ingenuity” as the “poetic river that flows” to the surface on you, from everything, or, the blank slate? What kind of person are you who reveals them self in…

  • Raphael the Painter

    By ‘dilating’ and ‘expanding’ the scope of our attention we not only discover that ‘form is emptiness’ (the donut has a hole), but also that ’emptiness is form’ (objects precipitate out of the larger ‘space’) – to use Buddhist terminology. The emptiness that we arrive at by narrowing our focus on the innermost is identical…

  • The Continuing Saga?

    It was Socrates’ turn to look puzzled. Oh, wake up. You know what chaos is. Simple deterministic dynamics leading to irregular, random-looking behavior. Butterfly effect. That stuff. Of course, I know that, Socrates said in irritation. No, it was the idea of dynamic logic that was puzzling me. How can logic be dynamic So in…