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Hosea's Patio: May 2014
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Ancient politics vs modern. A couple of months ago I posted an essay about Plato's. In my post about sex in the. I argued that we shouldn't expect to be able to implement the kind of sexual regime Plato describes [an arrangement that was already long obsolete by classical times! And if not, why not? S 1979 article " Aristippus In and Out of Athens. It's an ingenio...
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Hosea's Patio: May 2013
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Thursday, May 16, 2013. Happy birthday, Plato! As near as I can figure it, today is Plato’s birthday. The traditional date was the 7th day of the month of Thargelion. The Athenian calendar was a lunar one, so this means the seventh day after the second-last new moon before the summer solstice. And I think that’s today. Next year, it looks like it will be on Cinco de Mayo.
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Garden of Philodemus: Rotundas de Albufeira
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Herculaneum, circa 40 BCE. At the villa Pisonis the Epicurean School of Philodemus of Gadara is an informal gathering place. For those who enjoy discussing philosophy, literature, general politics, the nature of things and how to live better. Quinta-feira, 9 de abril de 2009. Que tenho querido fotografar as rotundas "artísticas" de Albufeira: fi-lo hoje. Também as há sem obras de arte,. A primeira, para quem vem da Via do Infante, é esta:. Ou, se se entrar por uma ponta, de nascente para poente:. Beijinh...
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Hosea's Patio: March 2015
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Thursday, March 26, 2015. McFarland" again, or, The unrecognized virtue of poverty. To make about the movie “. 8221; It’s about poverty. From time to time rich folks get sentimental about poverty. There’s plenty of literature that celebrates the poor man as nobler and more virtuous than the rich man. And like all deliberate sentimentality, it lies. There is no ipso facto. Virtue. And...
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Hosea's Patio: January 2014
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Tuesday, January 28, 2014. So why haven't I been writing lately? Besides the usual excuses, I mean . Last spring a dear friend of mine introduced me to. Classical philosophy rather than one confined to libraries. But now I wonder if maybe there already is such a thing. When you sift through all the drama and stage-dressing of Plato's. That - whether or not Plato really believed in reinca...
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Hosea's Patio: "McFarland USA" or Revisiting "Ancient politics vs modern"
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. McFarland USA" or Revisiting "Ancient politics vs modern". Last year I wrote. Last month Walt Disney Pictures released ". In which a school teacher with nowhere else to go starts a cross-country team at one of the poorest high schools in California, and they sweep the. The rest is history. Does this attitude translate to the battlefield? Famously said, ". This ...
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Hosea's Patio: September 2014
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Saturday, September 6, 2014. I was reading an article this afternoon, a piece written 37 years ago by Robert Pirsig called "Cruising Blues and Their Cure". Plato characterized exactly the same way of life – making allowances for the differences of time and place – by using his famous image of the Cave:. 8211; How could they? Itself, and the remarkable fact that these depressed weekend sa...
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Hosea's Patio: Sex at Dawn, and the Republic
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Sex at Dawn, and the Republic. Name anything written by Plato. I bet the first thing you thought of - maybe the only one - was the. Tell me something about the. Plato gets that a lot. In the central books of the. Proposed (and his students have later extended) the theory that Plato was just kidding. Strauss's student Allan Bloom. And well, that's fine, I guess&#...
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Hosea's Patio: August 2015
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Being enlightened doesn't make you right. The last few days I've been reading Mark Richardson's Zen and Now. A retrospective and commentary on Robert Pirsig's. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Actually I bought the book a while ago but never finished it; and lately I've been browsing through it at random when I have a few minutes. There are ways to b...
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Hosea's Patio: "McFarland" again, or, The unrecognized virtue of poverty
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Between the Porch and the Garden - or - What is living and what is dead in ancient philosophy. Powered by Ink of Life. Thursday, March 26, 2015. McFarland" again, or, The unrecognized virtue of poverty. To make about the movie “. 8221; It’s about poverty. From time to time rich folks get sentimental about poverty. There’s plenty of literature that celebrates the poor man as nobler and more virtuous than the rich man. And like all deliberate sentimentality, it lies. There is no ipso facto. Virtue. And...