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Beauty, Narcissism, and the Platonic Disdain for the Body - Part II

jacobschriftman wrote 1 day ago: Go here to read Part I. ‘Be careful, Caroline. Do not be like Narcissus. His desire for himself kil … more →

Tags: Books, Beauty, echo and narcissus, narcissism, Ovid, Platonic ieals

Moral Philosophy

Zan wrote 1 day ago: It might be a bit ambitious to dive straight into ‘moral philosophy’ – it is a ter … more →

Tags: Philosophy, deontology, Utilitarianism, kantianism, Peter Singer, Moral, Vegetarianism, Rights

L3: Light, Love, Life. 1st John 1:1-4

cvaughn83 wrote 2 days ago: This is perhaps one of the most significant passages in the New Testament, not only for its confessi … more →

Tags: L3: 1st John Series, Theology, Bible Study, Book of John, Apologists, logos

Beauty, Narcissism, and the Platonic Disdain for the Body - Part I1 comment

jacobschriftman wrote 2 days ago: The following is an excerpt from my new book Ich, nackt im Universum, which consists of a few philo … more →

Tags: Books, Philosophy, Milton, Paradise Lost, narcissism, Miltonic Eve, Beauty, Ovid, Cyclops

The arrogance of Socrates: Apollo made me!5 comments

andreaskluth wrote 2 days ago: None wiser, says Apollo So we opened this thread on Socrates and his relevance to us today by showin … more →

Tags: History, apollo, Arrogance, Delphi, I F Stone, Socrates, Wisdom, Xenophon

Blog Blues6 comments

craigvick wrote 4 days ago: I dreamed of virtual symposiums when I first created this blog, not the symposiums of academia but t … more →

Tags: Blogging, Camus, Faith, unamuno

Iconodules Rejoice! (Or, Further Adventures in Critical Pretension)2 comments

H.C. Johns wrote 5 days ago: Via the Western Confucian, some very thought-provoking archaeology news: newly unearthed third cent … more →

Tags: Art, History, Early Christianity, paul

atlantis

leatherflavoreddonut wrote 5 days ago: the lost city of atlantis was first mentioned by plato in his dialogues entitled timaeus and critia … more →

Tags: History, Unexplained, donut, leather, Atlantis, bimini, Lost

Defining Virtual Worlds

jenymn wrote 6 days ago: I am reading Tom Boellstrof’s Coming of Age in Second Life. He states that virtuality is not n … more →

Tags: Second-Life, virtual worlds, networking, User studies

Communications is Key!

csknowledge wrote 6 days ago: Sara says:  Cheryl and I teach graduate students and we’ve discovered that many don’t write well.  I … more →

Tags: Cheryl and Sara’s Blog entries, IBM, respect, Aristotle, responsibility, Business + Communication, change, Graduate Students, rampant problem

Some Light Reading for the Weekend1 comment

smartykatt wrote 1 week ago: I’m going to be a bit busy this weekend. My goal is to get a better concept nailed down for th … more →

Tags: dissertation, Burke, C. Selfe, elbow, Foucault, new rhetoric, selber

Essay: To what extent is it meaningful to interpret Plato as a fictionalist?

Gorm wrote 1 week ago: (This is a 4000 word exam paper I wrote a couple of weeks ago.) Introduction A common view is that w … more →

Tags: English, Fictionalism, Myth, mythos, platonism, Poetry, Republic, Socrates, theoreticalism

[R]education4 comments

trotskyite wrote 1 week ago: The philosopher Plato once stated that “there shall be compulsory education, as the saying is, … more →

Tags: Athletes, basic education, capitalism, careers, China, class system, College, communism, Communist

UTOPIA DUNIA MAYA

iwan puken wrote 1 week ago: Plato, sang filsuf Yunani Kuno, sedikitpun tidak ragu ketika ia mengatakan bahwa manusia adalah makh … more →

Tags: catatan biasa, Barrack Obama, Buckingham, Curriculum Vitae, Demokrasi, dunia maya, facebook, Internet, Iwan Puken

Love Under Will

Angel wrote 1 week ago: “Ethos anthropoi daimon.” - Heraclitus Is the character of man linked to his Holy Guardi … more →

Tags: Heraclitus, holy guardian angel, thelema

Confusing the Soul

futiledemocracy wrote 1 week ago: If I were asked quite specifically to describe in detail, music; perhaps Mozart, perhaps Mario Del M … more →

Tags: Beautiful, Bible, Christianity, Darwin, death, Evolution, God, Humanity, kant

Socrates and the original think tank15 comments

andreaskluth wrote 1 week ago: Aristophanes And so we continue this thread on Socrates, and the profound ways that he is still with … more →

Tags: History, Academy, Aristophanes, Aristotle, lyceum, Socrates, Think Tanks, thinkery, WorDs

"Your Reverence"

Kralizec wrote 2 weeks ago: The Reverend Mother Mohiam is an old woman who comes to test a youth and to kill him or let him live … more →

Tags: Dune, Bene Gesserit, Reverend Mother, Gaius Helen Mohiam, The Theaetetus, Socrates, midwife

Just What the Hell is 'Socialism'?5 comments

tasna wrote 2 weeks ago: Just What the Hell is ‘Socialism’? by the Tasmanian National-Anarchists Some anarchists … more →

Tags: Tasmania, Hobart, anarchism, Socialism, Bolshevism, communism, Proudhon, bakunin, Spengler


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