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• Steve Ditko’s ‘The Ever Unreachable’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  For comic book readers, Steve Ditko is a name to be reckoned with. In a career spanning more than five decades, Ditko has drawn countless pages in every genre for every major publisher. Ditko has created scores of original characters and is probably best known for co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. Ditko is also ...
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• Rape Culture in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature

  
  Aristotle's Feminist Subject — Authority: 494
  Pandion was a king of Athens who had two daughters, Prokne and Philomela, one of whom was the wife of Tereus, while the other was raped by Tereus, who cut out her tongue so she could not tell.  Silenced, she wove a cloth to reveal her sad story, which her sister read and, to punish Tereus, killed their only child ...
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• Some Birds Hibernate

  
  Tails of Birding — Authority: 124
  For two weeks, I have written about Aristotle and his scientifically outrageous notion that birds hibernate. He was wrong about the five species of swallows that he knew in his Greek homeland. They do not hibernate. They migrate to Africa and south Asia after the breeding season is over. However, unbeknownst to ...
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• Meditation XVIII, Sextus Empiricus (AD c.200) – Outlines of Pyrrhonism

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 130
  Sextus Empiricus~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is [...]
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• Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Oh My!

  
  Musings of a Quirkyloon — Authority: 129
  Ive always been impressed by deep thinkers. I remember learning about the triumvirate of Greek philosophers whose quotes collectively, have stood the test of time. I am speaking of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle , of course! I bet you didnt realize that these wise men and philosophers had already formed opinions ...
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• Meditation XVII, Chuang Tzŭ (4th Century BC) – The Book of Chuang Tzŭ

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 130
  Chuang Tzŭ dreaming of a butterfly~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as [...]
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• Meditation XVI, Aristotle (384-322 BC) – Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 130
  Marble Bust of Aristotle~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know [...]
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• The Picket Line — 20 November 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  20 November 2009 Don’t look now, but… Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts like a sweeping health care overhaul. “Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to ...
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• Meditation XV, Plato (c.428-347 BC) – Republic

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 130
  Herma of Plato~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it [...]
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• Franz Kafka and Philosophy Workshop: 2010

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  A call for papers has been announced for an upcoming academic workshop on philosophy in the work of Franz Kafka, to be held in August 2010. The workshop is part of a larger conference on  Thought in Science and Fiction  organized by Cankaya University in Turkey, and aims to consider various conceptions of the ...
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• Meditation XIV, Epistēmē, A Brief Introduction to Epistemology

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 130
  Sigmund Freud – The Science Museum, London~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present [...]
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• The First Collectivist

  
  Opinion Forum — Authority: 431
  When the Communists, Fascists, and Socialists started advocating their ideas around the turn of the 20th century, they billed them as completely new and radical ideologies. Little did they know that they had already been scooped… by a guy who had been dead for literally over two millenia. Their predecessor’s name? ...
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• The Picket Line — 18 November 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  18 November 2009 The concluding sections of book seven of The Nicomachean Ethics concern pleasure, and whether it is something good, bad, or it-depends. Pleasure is also the subject of book ten. These sections also appear in The Eudemean Ethics , which seems to be considered a less-mature treatment of the ...
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• In the words of a football coach, philosopher, father…

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 692
  At the start of  Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” before the words begin, there’s a map: “The View from the Top of the World.” It shows Alaska closer to the center of the top of the world than Washington, D.C. — deliberate perhaps? Then wandering through the book, the quotes at the start of each chapter ...
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• Secret of Jackie Onassis nude paparazzi pictures revealed

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Italian paparazzo Settimio Garritano has revealed the secret of how he snapped naked pictures of President Kennedys widow Jackie Onassis on a private Greek island almost 40 years ago.
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• The Picket Line — 17 November 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  17 November 2009 We’re not quite finished with book seven of The Nicomachean Ethics yet, but Aristotle shifts topics here, and I thought I’d try to do a wrap-up of his ten — sometimes overlapping, and at least once just plain contradictory — sections on the subject of self-control. Self-control is what ...
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• The Twelfth Meditation, Khronos – The Philosophy of Time and its Implications

  
  Mindstorm — Authority: 112
  Big Ben – Clock Tower of London~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it [...]
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• The Eleventh Meditation, Paradoxos – The Philosophy of Paradoxes

  
  Mindstorm — Authority: 112
  Truth and Falsehood by Alfred Stevens~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it has [...]
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• The Tenth Meditation, Logos – The Building Blocks of Philosophy

  
  Mindstorm — Authority: 112
  Cuneiform~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it has been before the future can [...]
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• The Ninth Meditation, Systēma – Approaching Systematic Philosophy

  
  Mindstorm — Authority: 112
  The Youth of Aristotle by Charles Degeorge~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it [...]
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