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POPSStand on the shoulders of giants - Plato Quotes "There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hand"
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POPS10 Famously Ugly People Except for Atillla (for his deeds), they were all beautiful and in my dictionary nobody is ugly. Its just that I found the clip interesting enough to share ...
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POPSPlato's Cave - "Is that what we see the reality?"
Socrates: Each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark. When you have acquired the habit, you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den, and you will know what the several images are, and what they represent, because you have seen the beautiful and just and good in their truth. And thus our State which is also yours will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.... When a person starts on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only, and without any assistance of sense, and perseveres until by
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POPSPLATO: Antarctica's Robot Observatory Located at the highest point on the southern continent the observatory is in an ideal position to search several star clusters for planets, plot quietly without any fear of meddling humans, and make periodic reports like "There is NO robotic death fleet en route to Earth, please go about your eating and procreating and other things that make you inferior to the perfect machine intellect". Solar panels will power the systems for the bulk of the year, with a minor reserve of four thousand liters of jet fuel to power diesel generators in winter. Some might not be scared of an isolated science listening post, but those not worried by a seven ton metal robot with a thousand gallons of high-octane flammability to play with will be the first to fall when the revolution comes.
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POPSAtlantis This site has alot of text available from various sources. There was far too much to clip.
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POPSDemocracy Supposedly I live in a representative republic. Maybe our republic is more like a democracy of the upper one percent.
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POPSPlato -- Ebooks And Resource Links This post has over 50 books on Plato, as well as almost 50 external related links that focus on Plato. The post to get to these links is http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/07/plato-ebooks-and-resource-links.html
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POPSArtifacts and Human History Yet many other unearthed "out-of-place artifacts" create obvious contradictions to the conservative picture of antiquity. They don't fit the established pattern of prehistory, pointing back instead to the existence of advanced civilizations before any of the known ancient cultures came into being.
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POPSAncient Greek Music Theory - Modes The Greeks had developed a complex system of relating particular emotional and spiritual characteristics to certain modes (scales). The names for the various modes derived from the names of Greek tribes and peoples, the temperament and emotions of which were said to be characterized by the unique sound of each mode, which included the Ancient Greek subgroups (Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians), one small region in central Greece (Locris), and certain neighboring (non-Greek) peoples from Asia Minor (Lydia, Phrygia). Thus, Dorian modes were "harsh", Phrygian modes "sensual", and so forth.
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POPSTIME TO WAKE UP IF THIS WORLD IS TO SURVIVE, THEN THESE THINGS MUST HAPPEN FOR US, OUR CHILDREN, AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN ! . EVERY PERSON MUST MAKE IT THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY, TO DO THEIR OWN PART OF THIS PERSONAL ACTION
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POPSThe Enlightenment and dogmatism of the mediaeval and the awakening of modernity. Medieval philosophy combined Christian beliefs with the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. In the medieval world philosophers respected their predecessors and accepted their methods. If a new discovery about nature contradicted one of Aristotle's principles, for example, it would probably have been assumed that it was the discovery that was in error. Enlightenment thinkers were not content to accept appeals to Aristotle's authority. It could be seen that using experimental methods science was progressing and increasing our understanding of nature, which could not have been done without rejecting some of Aristotle's assumptions. It was not only Aristotle that was being questioned, using reason and logic philosophers criticised political and religious ideas. What rational answer is there for the justification of monarchy or that you should choose one type of religion over another?
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POPSEthical Philosophy Quiz When I was filling out the answers, I hated it and was convinced that due to stupid semantic BS and limited options, my results would be terrible and end up matching me with someone I hate, or something. So basically, my same beef as with ALL multiple choice quizzes. I was pleasantly surprised, though- I matched highest with my two favorites (Epicurious and John Stuart Mill), and Sartre came in 4th. This is more than enough to satisfy me :)
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POPSMathematicians are odd Disclaimer: I have nothing against mathematicians - I'd like to add: nothing efficacious, in any case. One of my mathematics teachers was extremely odd - but I venerated and adored him! Another mathematics teacher of mine was a prick, and I feared and hated him. But he was neither a good mathematician nor odd.
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POPSThe Murky Politics of Mind-Body " Dualism tends to win the day: The mind and the body, while linked, are separate " i wonder what would happen in a world (or nation) where unity win the day, other then dualism ? :)
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