The Toronto Star just quoted Kieran Moore, I’m very loath, after 1,000 days of a pandemic, to put in a mandate. We know what works, and we can trust Ontarians to do the right things. Nope. If we could trust people to KNOW what’s right with all the misinformation out
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Scripturient: Socrates and Saunderson
In Plato’s dialogue Gorgias, Socrates debates with three sophists — Gorgias the rhetorician and his pupils Polus, and Callicles — about justice, power, morality, and virtue. Socrates also questions the value of oratory and rhetoric — the crafts of the sophists — in contemporary politics and whether they do good
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: What is Enlightenment?
Further Notes On The Dualistic Illusion (This ought to raise the hackles of the fundamentalists – both secular and religious. But I don’t write for the narrow of mind anyway, so I am not concerned about that.) Now here is someone who knows what he is talking about: Rabbi David
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Odell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Or maybe we’d recognize Nietzsche’s last man as ourselves: “Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the dreadfulest sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth! .
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Command F: a Bittersweet Function
I tell my students of the magic of “command F” on Macs and “control F” on PCs. This F function key, that can find a word or phrase anywhere in the text, is a game-changer when hunting for the best quotation or for that juicy bit of information or when…
Continue readingLeDaro: Socrates views on soul and God
The question of God and soul has always baffled me. Below is the commentary of Socrates views on divinity.”If anything in general can be said about the philosophical beliefs of Socrates, it is that he was morally, intellectually, and politically at odd…
Continue readingLeDaro: 10 Great Socrates Quotes
Socrates lived in 5th century as well. Plato was his student. Great quotes indeed
Continue readingLeDaro: Socrates: One of my favourite philosopher
As a university student I never took a course in philosophy but I have great interest in philosophy. One of my favourite philosopher is Socrates. Here is an interesting quote:
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Plato was a riot!
Now I don’t feel badly for having the same reaction to The Apology of Socrates! Alltop likes Sophocles for the phat beats.
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