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August 31, 2010 — Read it. You know, this actually explains something important, and, yes, I am serious. Paul Krugman writes in re: Isaac Asimov: Asimov, and specifically the Foundation trilogy, was my great inspiration; I became an economist because I...
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August 30, 2010 — Popper vs. Plato . There are limits to what can be done by men, and there is a price to pay for failing to respect those limits. Kevin D. Williamson
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August 29, 2010 — This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on a case that may have the unusual result of establishing a philosophical link between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Plato. The case in question is the 2008 decision of the Ninth...
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August 31, 2010 — Tom Shillock writes: How did Plato and Aristotle, Newton and Einstein ever manage without portable networked computers? That they engage kids in ways that teachers were not able to before may...
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August 25, 2010 — A recent article in the APA On-line Teaching Philosophy Newsletter describes an experiment where students were asked to insert emoticons at strategic places in the text of Plato's Euthyphro. For those of you who have been...
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August 24, 2010 — I’m putting together today my course web sites, which means finding and/or scanning chapters needed for pdf’s, looking for interviews online, and other resources. For my race and ethics course, I found a...
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August 19, 2010 — Khloe Kardashian , one-third of the Kardashian sisters, was spotted sitting court-side supporting her husband, Lamar Odom, during the USA VS FRANCE basketball game. She was wearing a pair of Christian...
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August 18, 2010 — The dialogues would contain not Sophists, but Trolls. Critique for the sake of critique is the more serious danger to thought right now than the charlatans who get rich on philosophy. The latter may still be around, but they are easily...
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May 26, 2010 — The Spiritual Significance of ¿Plato O Plato? by Pamela L. Bunker and Dr. Robert J. Bunker Download the full article: The Spiritual Significance of ¿Plato O Plato?...
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August 14, 2010 — Alexander Wang started the sportswear as regular day wear trend last spring, and it seems athletic wear has really taken off. While I’m not a huge fan of anything athletic, I’ll definitely participate in any...
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August 12, 2010 — Anyone who looks for a good on-line Plato translation will most likely older versions that don't work too well for students, such as Jowett or, at best, the translations from the Hamilton-Cairns volume. Cathal Woods has...
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October 01, 2009 — Today my new book is published, Plato's Podcasts: The Ancients' Guide to Modern Living . We've made some short films as an invitation to explore what the masters of good living have to say....
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August 09, 2010 — Phaedrus is a masterful dialogue that it’s impossible to do justice to. Here Plato is at the height of his powers describing the soul’s ascension towards the divine with the aid of the beauty of a beloved friend. As...
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August 06, 2010 — Hampton Stevens is surely asking for trouble from many chess fans. According to his definition, sport must have 3 key qualities: "people compete at it, computers can't do it, and aesthetics don't count". And by that definition, chess is...
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August 04, 2010 — How did I miss this? Jay Kennedy, an historian and philosopher of science at the University of Manchester, claims to have made an unusual discovery in the works of Plato. In short, he argues...