... THE TWO NATURES, cont. The history of the old councils is fascinating. The controversy over the two natures of Christ grew out of questions provoked by the...
... THE TWO NATURES, concl. If I have strayed into theology in the last two posts, it is not just because I have a penchant for this sort of stuff. I don't...
... BLIND MAN'S BUFF When I was a child, one of my mother's favourite sayings was: "I see, said the blind man, but he really didn't see at all!" I got it. The...
Whoa! You are quite right. This is in the first instance a reading list of Greek texts, and may explain why we didn't go so far as you suggest, but nevetheless...
... In our several discussions, especially of late, we have related the texts of the Parmenides and the Metaphysics to the ongoing modern dicussion which we...
... We were speaking, last post, about the growth of what we call psychology, and the changing meanings of some terms it uses. Of particular interest to me is...
... EVOLUTION SEEN DOUBLE This long, long develolpment of our double selves, of our physical and mental selves, that began, the one far beyond memory, the...
... Ancilla Theologiae In recent posts I have occasionally edged over into the neighboring discipline of theology. The history of philosophy is bound up with...
THROUGH A WIDE-ANGLE LENS Let us pause briefly, to consider the broad sweep and context of the history of human thought, and see the mental evolution in which...
Edward Little
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Jan 8, 2004 12:42 am
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mr little and how does the myth of evolution fit into your history of the evolution of myth? bill ...
MONEY There is a superb example of a practical discovery of abstraction a little before the time of Parmenides. That was the invention of money. N. G. L...
Edward Little
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THE OUTCOME What happened after Plato and Aristotle passed from the scene? Parmenides' "one being, the same, whole, now and forever" was received generally as...
Edward Little
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Jan 19, 2004 3:06 pm
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A report on: Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza, NY, Harcourt, 2003, Pb, 356 pp. This is a study of emotion, feeling and, above all, homeostasis in the body,...
Edward Little
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Jan 25, 2004 2:12 pm
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METHOD In the course of these discussions of mind and brain, and of their respective roles, I have often mentioned modern studies of neurology and brain...
Edward Little
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Feb 1, 2004 4:05 pm
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John Gallagher: The Iliad, the hieroglyphs of Egypt, the Monumentum Ancyranum, Tahafut-al-Tahafut, Chansons de Gestes, Shakespeare, the Treaty of Ghent,...
Edward Little
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Feb 7, 2004 4:02 pm
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ad Prm. 130d: With reference to things such as hair, mud, dirt and the like, Socrates says he is afraid "it would be quite bizarre to believe there is any...
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Feb 16, 2004 7:42 pm
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WW: You ask a good question. If anyone else wishes to join us in parsing this line, they will be welcome. I am not content with Fowler's or Allen's...
Edward Little
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... A CAMBRIDGE SCHOLAR Edward Benson, the British author, in a delightful book, As We Were, London, 1930 and 1985 (pages 133-37) includes this portrait of...
... THOUGHTS ON ABSTRACTION Some things are obvious when we think about them, but we hardly ever think about them. Arithmetic in primary school is our first...
... CONTINUED THOUGHTS ON ABSTRACTION The connection between Parmenides and Plato is that Parmenides' Being and One were prototypes of Plato's Forms. But what...
... THE IDEAS AFTER PLATO'S DEPARTURE "The Phaedo was taken by those who followed Plato as THE theory of Plato, par excellence. Aristotle could not stop with...
... THE IDEAS AFTER PLATO'S DEPARTURE "The Phaedo was taken by those who followed Plato as THE theory of Plato, par excellence. Aristotle could not stop with...
... THE IDEAS AFTER PLATO, cont. Did you ever wonder why metaphysics is such a slippery topic? In our last post we said that the sources tell us that...
... IDEAS, cont. It is the ambiguities, then, that make metaphysics such a difficult thing. Plato made this clear in his Parmenides stating eight hypotheses...
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