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Original Technorati articles tagged “socrates”

• in Lifestyle
  Can Reflecting On Death Lead to a Better Life?
  An honest, thoughtful inquiry into death often facilitates a sobering examination of human existence itself.
  by AskSocratesNow / on Oct 29, 2009
• in Music
  The Classical Music Top 10 List
  The top works in the underrated genre of classical music (according to Socrates).
  by AskSocratesNow / on Oct 22, 2009
• in Lifestyle
  Can Old People Learn Anything From The Young?
  The old can still learn from the young
  by AskSocratesNow / on Oct 20, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “socrates”

• "hate audio books where women speak mans part."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 720
  This is a Google search that brought a couple readers to my blog — to a post that wasnt about being annoyed when female audiobook readers do the dialogue of male characters. But its a good topic for discussion! I too hate the way female readers — especially the really dramatic ones — do male voices. They macho ...
  22 hours ago

• Summary of Plato’s Ring of Gyges

  
  A Philosopher's Blog — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia The “ Ring of Gyges ” begins with a challenge put forth by Glaucon -he wants Socrates to defend the just life and he wants the defense to show that justice is intrinsically preferable to injustice. For the sake of the argument, Glaucon proposes to present a defense of injustice. ...
  1 day ago

• Why I am Agnostic, pt 2–causality

  
  themattscott — Authority: 111
  I mentioned, in a comment yesterday , that I had jumped the ship of theism about a year ago, and had somehow gotten caught up in trailing the ship for some time after that. The next few posts will discuss how those remaining ties were severed, and I’ll probably end with something on why I am not an atheist. (I ...
  2 days ago

• Who are you, really?

  
  Mandy de Waal — Authority: 99
  There’s a scene from Little Miss Sunshine that has stayed with me for the longest time. If you’ve seen the movie you’re remember it instantly. Miss Sunshine is of course the film about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and the scene in question is between Dwayne and Frank who are musing on the ...
  3 days ago

• The Eight Ways of Being in the World

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 140
  It’s hard to live in the world. Suffering happens. Then more suffering happens. Then you die. In the face of these facts, Albert Camus wrote that the first question of philosophy is suicide. But if you’re not going to do that , then what will you do? As I see it, the menu of options is actually pretty thin ...
  1 week ago

• Total Recall for Public Servants

  
  Shepherd's Pi — Authority: 416
  MyLifeBits is a Microsoft Research project led by the legendary Gordon Bell , designed to put “all of his atom- and electron-based bits in his local Cyberspace….MyLifeBits includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owns (e.g. CDs).”  SenseCam - Click to enlarge ...
  1 week ago

• Employ your time in improving yourself...

  
  reddy2007 — Authority: 146
  Serenity of the Clouds Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates
  1 week ago

• WordPress: Plato’s Academy Today

  
  The Hannibal Blog — Authority: 118
  Some of you may have noticed that my thread on Socrates was going strong all through the summer and then, seemingly, stopped. Something similar, you might have thought, occurred with my thread on America . Well, no, the two threads did not stop. They went into overdrive, albeit in a different form. Indeed, they ...
  1 week ago

• Portugal set to approve same-sex marriage; adoption ruled out

  
  gaelick — Authority: 131
  Over in Portugal, the government yesterday approved proposed legislation to remove references to gender in respect of marriage. (See also here , here and here , each in Portuguese.) You know Portugal: extreme western European country (snap!); with the Catholic conservatism (snap!); and the economy that didn’t ...
  1 week ago

• Jack Ritchie’s Deflationary Naturalism: A Problem for Atheism?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 140
  Brian Leiter on Wednesday directed his blog readers’s attention to Jack Ritchie’s Understanding Naturalism (2009) , quoting a recent review of the book that says in part: The attitude Ritchie recommends for the genuine or serious naturalist is metaphysical agnosticism  (cf. 104, 143, 148, 158). Like ...
  1 week ago

• Socrates in Kansas

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 140
  This Kansas song seems to me packed to the brim with Western literary and religious allusions, from Greek figures like Diogenes, Socrates, and Odysseus—accompanied by a Greek chorus!—to an obvious biblical allusion (the Prodigal Son). Oh, and notice Icarus in the third line, and even an Eastern religious ...
  1 week ago

• Allegory of The Cave Summary

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 558
  In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato discusses the interesting concept of the truth.  The allegory of the Cave is only a small part of the book The Republic . The Republic is written as a collection of dialogues between Socrates and other influential Athenian figures, the allegory of the cave being a dialogue ...
  1 week ago

• Portugal Readies Itself to Become Europes 6th Country With Gay Marriage. Weddings By April!

  
  Queerty — Authority: 694
  Making good on a campaign promise to push for legalizing gay marriage , re-elected Prime Minister José Sócrates Socialist government is drafting legislation to do just that. And its expected to all work out! CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: José Sócrates , ...
  1 week ago

• Terror Pornography

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Last month, in posing the “ inconvenient hypothesis ” that there was a pornographic quality to the propaganda photographs that Dorothea Lange took of the destitute victims of the Great Depression, I drew upon Plato’s “Republic” to support my argument. I did not have my copy of Plato with me when I wrote ...
  1 week ago

• London Fields Part Two: Socratic Methods

  
  A More Splendid Life — Authority: 116
  Oh and thats a bad miss... Theres something about English football culture that manages to permeate the whole of the country whilst still remaining somewhat under the surface. In North America, your average sports stadium will be visible for miles around, with garish signs directing you to pastel-coloured, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Change Denial: A Lesson from Plato

  
  Kiwipolitico — Authority: 511
  Guest post by Ag.The Greek philosopher Plato (428/427-347 BC) is perhaps most famous for his suggestion in The Republic that the ideal political community ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings. This is somewhat of a shame because it obscures the fact that Plato never intended philosopher rule to be a practical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Live With Honour

  
  Soul Meets World — Authority: 119
  "The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."   ~Socrates
  2 weeks ago

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  The Chief — Authority: 138
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  2 weeks ago

• SOCRATES CAFÉ: THE MORNING AFTER…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  Tuesday evening our Socrates Café met at the Mayfield Road Phoenix Coffee House and the question we pulled from the box was:Is our ability to reflect upon our actions pointless and even detrimental?The initial reactions were no, reflection often offers benefits. Upon further reflection, however, we discussed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reflection on Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (part 2)

  
  kansas reflections — Authority: 106
   Thomas Kuhn’s influential book “ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” ignited a firestorm of debate and controversy in 1962 which continues unabated to this very day. Noted as the most widely cited book in the 20th century, Kuhn’s writing has penetrated the public consciousness to shape our collective ...
  2 weeks ago

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