There is a TV show. Inside it are many tall tales. It demands we give up all the critical thinking we have ever been taught. Its absurdity is everywhere. Its nonsense is right before our eyes. They are not honest, […]
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Tag: Antiquity
Aristotle’s Theory of Change
(Video and text below.) How Objects Change One of the biggest problems that ancient Greek philosophers dealt with was the problem of change. Why and how do objects change? Plato had agreed with a number of Greek philosophers before him […]
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Why Do We Study Ancient Greek Philosophy?
Embedded video, “Why Do We Study Greek Philosophy?”; click to view. Text Transcript of “Why Study Ancient Greek Philosophy”: It may seem odd to study thinkers who wrote over 2,000 years ago. We don’t study scientists from ancient times, don’t […]
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Truth is Like a Lion
Truth is Like a Lion “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – Augustine Augustine (354-430) gets a bad rap, and for good reason given his obsessively prudish […]
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Epicurus on Happiness
Epicurus on Happiness “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” – Epicurus Epicurus is one of the […]
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Our Minds Must Relax
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short […]
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