... OBITER DICTUM The notion of co-evolution, which has been the subject of recent posts here, I picked up from a couple of books that I have been reading on...
If the UPM wishes to display a creation for his own entertainment, how does He go about it? There must be certain elements on which to act, a form, creation...
... Happy New Year! The Plato-Parmenides list was announced and started up just ten years ago this week. The record shows that Judy Wubnig, Chris Planeau and...
... EXAMPLES OF METAPHYSICS Plato in the Parmenides 132B4 has his Socrates suggest that an Idea might be a thought, noEma . . . en psuchais. He is immediately...
A FAILURE OF METAPHYSICS IN THE XIX CENTURY The history of science, in particular of biology, in the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the...
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By now you should see why I have been "harping" on evolution the last several weeks. It is because the story of the reception and development of Darwin's...
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A SWARM OF LOGICS The statement in the post of December 30, last paragraph, that evolution has a logic of its own, deserves some amplification. There are many...
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... From: "Edward Little" <elittle@...> ... with reality as there are many realities. Thus there are many logics. My title above is in reminiscence...
... "AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER" I am loathe to write about personal matters on these lists. After all, they are about Plato and Aristotle, not about...
... The use of metaphor and analogy, mentioned in the post of February 5 on the many kinds of logic, is perhaps the commonest mode of thinking of all. It is...
... GENESIS "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" - O.T. "In the beginning was the Word" - N.T. "In the beginning Chaos came to be" (E toi...
Talbot tells us that the holographic theory provides a profound new way of looking at the world: Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by...
... WATER We brought it up in the last post (2/27). What is so special about water? It is a simple combination of two common elements, an atom of oxygen and...
... A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR RE-INVIGORATING THE ANCIENT CLASSICS In nineteen twenty the American Classical League undertook what was called "The Classical...
... I have asked this question before, and I will asked it again. I have been asking it for most of my life. By the age of twenty it dawned on me that each of...
... More about Method in the Social Sciences A. The Pythagoreans, Aristotle tells us (Metaph. A, 986a23), arranged things in pairs, the ten sustoichia, limited...
Gilson said, in his "unity of philosophical experience", the laboratory is the history of philosophy. chungchi hsu ... More about Method in the Social Sciences...
... FAIRIES Do you believe in fairies? I do. Oh, not the way we did as small children. Differently. Like this: I have been reading Puck of Pook's Hill. You...
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a book on fairies which included photograohes taken when films were still sensitive out into the ultraviolet. Some sensitive people...
From Carlos Suares book Qabala Trilogy..Rabbi Aqivah considered this the most important text in the Bible and claimed he could reconstruct all knowledge from a...
... We invoked the fairies in the last post. It was pointed out that history and religion and science, all grew out of myth in the infancy of mankind. We might...
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... ISOCRATES The last two posts have asked us to pause, and to reconsider IV century B.C. Athens, and the positions of some of its great men. Surpassing the...
... ISOCRATES AND DEMOSTHENES - THE HELLENISTIC WORLD (Reprise) "In the entrance-hall stood the larger figures of the Greco-Buddhist sculptures done, savants ...
... OBITER DICTUM - METAPOLITICS The "contest" between Demosthenes and Isocrates was worthy of our close attention only because it pointed up an acute...
... The enlargement of our views of the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle to include an overview of Isocrates and the ensuing diaspora of Greeks to the East...
... RECAP "The affair does not need to be so complicated. A simple explanation will do" (last post). I am not joking. I am not saying that the Parmenides and...
... A GORDIAN KNOT What was Parmenides talking about? Clues from third parties are rare, but here are two: Isocrates' Antidosis has a long defense and praise...
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