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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “plato”

 

• “Unclassfiable”

  
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  By the time of the Platonic dialogues Socrates was called atopos , that is, “unclassifiable.” What makes him atopos is precisely the fact that he is a “philo-sopher” in the etymological sense of the word; that is, he is in love with wisdom. For wisdom, says Diotima in Plato’s Symposium , is not a human ...
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• Violence & Video Games, Yet Again.

  
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  (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While there is an abundance of violence in the real world, there is also considerable focus on the virtual violence of video games. Interestingly, some people (such as the head of the NRA) blame real violence on the virtual violence of video games. The idea that art can corrupt people is ...
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• Lost continent of Atlantis discovered - report

  
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  Japanese scientists claim to have found the lost city of Atlantis the seabed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, at least if you believe the Japanese media . read more
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• Asperity Parity: How to Argue Forcefully Yet Fairly

  
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  Asperity Parity is being as rhetorically rough as your debate partner but no rougher. Its a key to having creative, expansive debates. Truth springs from arguments amongst friends, which requires the ability to argue and stay friends. You cant afford to be too blunt or too tentative, not by some absolute standard but ...
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• Brazilian Atlantis: Submersible Finds Possible Evidence Of Continent Deep Beneath Atlantic Ocean (VIDEO)

  
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  The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith Nearly 2,600 years after Greek philosopher Plato wrote about the fabled metropolis of Atlantis, vanished forever beneath the sea, a Japanese-manned submersible has discovered rock structures that may be evidence of a continent that similarly ...
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• More Owls For Lee

  
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  So when Ben Greenman was in town Lisa Howorth was bragging on me, telling Ben how "well-read" I am for some reason, and then Jimmy started saying something about the treasure in TREASURE ISLAND and I asked him not to spoil it because Im not done yet, and Ben said, "Yeah, but you know theres treasure, right?" ...
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• Plato and Sinus Iridium Registax Images

  
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  Registax image 265 frames to 90% Registax image 269 frames to 90% Registax image 345 frames to 85% The north of the Moon has many features to discuss. I talked about one of the regions in the article  East of Sinus Iridium Bay Registax pictures , in which ...
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• A Puerto Rican friendship: Gustavo Corretjer

  
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  Remembering a teacher who complained about how little we could learn. read more
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• Education: From Plato to MOOCs

  
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  With the internet, new education technologies are arriving at a quickening pace, such as the free online courses known as MOOCs (for massively open online courses). These have sparked intense debate about the role of the classroom and the long term fate of traditional learning institutions. Yet new technologies have ...
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• Advice for Christians who discuss their faith with atheists… from an atheist

  
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  I spotted this post by Jeffery Jay Lowder on The Secular Outpost, and I think it’s good advice. There are times where two people speak the same language, use the same words, and mean  very  different things by the same words. In conversations between Christians and atheists, “faith” is one such word. For ...
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• Answers to Question-Interesting

  
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  It seems the opportune time when thinking about positions people adopt , that one realizes that one is not in a class of their own, but do definitely belong to a group of people in regard to a response from a survey. While not a part of that culture, can one say, this is a representative example of what appears in ...
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• Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth: The Poetry of Science

  
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  Some time ago, the first graders I work with sat down to an interesting exercise of observation. At each table, we had placed a variety of objects ranging from sun-glasses to bouncy balls to legos.… Read More →
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• Jogito ergo sum: the philosophy of running

  
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  A big-arsed ape after a sprint Ive a review of Mark Rowlands excellent Running With the Pack in todays Australian :  The meaning of life? Heres the rundown . Rowlands book is an intelligent and very personal defence of the existential value of running: its capacity to realise the intrinsic value of life. ...
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• Gates of Hell

  
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  An interesting a rticle from http://www.ucg.org/  about the "Gates of Hell" in Turkey . This follows this post about the continuing agenda of Gay Marriage . F or a free magazine subscription or to get the book shown  for free clic k HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632. Gates of Hell Have ...
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• Religion after the death of God - a lunchtime talk and discussion at Hills Road Sixth Form College

  
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  What follows is the text I used to introduce a very lively student lunchtime discussion held today at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, UK . My thanks to them for inviting me to talk. I enjoyed trying to answer the many very well put questions that the students asked. Religion after the death of God ...
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• A New Humanism: Part 17

  
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  For millennia we have applied our innate capability for reasoning in mathematics to understand and master the environments we face. Whether “god-given” or laboriously evolved, structures built into a brain are prepared to organize sensations of space into complex orderly relationships and, in built environments, ...
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• The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #104: Intellectuals

  
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  General Introduction - More weather talk - Feed problems Not Etymology but History - David turns to the OED - The Enlightenment - Byron’s parody - Intellectual vs. physical - Other terms and overlaps Intellectual, Scholar, Academic, Man of Letters - Defined against one another - Ranges of interests - Career ...
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• New study: pro-gay television shows have shifted public opinion on gay marriage

  
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  Life Site News reports . Excerpt: Ipsos MediaCT, a global market research company, have just released a study… According to the report, 18 percent of Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 said that television has directly contributed to their increasing support for same-sex “marriage.” That’s nearly ...
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• plato, bernstein, and james ehnes

  
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  On this week’s classical series program we’re joined by one of the world’s preeminent violinists, the Canadian James Ehnes, who will be playing Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium”. This is one of my all time favorite works of Lenny’s and I think it’s one of the purest examples of ...
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• Carlos Steel on Platonism and Christianity

  
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  Carlos Steel is a highly respected scholar and specialist in the history of Platonism from antiquity to the Renaissance. This lecture is a great introduction to the topic of Platonism and its historic relationship to the Christian faith given at the Catholic University of Leuven in 2011. Like any general overview of a ...
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