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Really So Bad?

We love to remember glorious and audacious women who, in spite of their gender, left a deep memory for their courage first of all.

But what about the many women in the past who were judged unfairly for vices they didn’t have… and history goes on putting blame and shame on them! mais 277 palavras

Behaviour

Lost in A Moment - Socrates (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

Anything which immediately makes me think of Paul Simon has got to be good right? I’m not saying that Socrates is necessarily ploughing the same musical furrow, certainly not intentionally, but there is something of the ex-Mrs Garfunkel’s spirit and joyfulness in the songwriting. mais 181 palavras

Sunday Inspiration: Learning

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people learn from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
—Socrates

Inspiration

Conversations with an Owl

Our backyard is massive and butts up against a small copse of trees. As a displaced city boy now living in a rather wooded area, I’ve marveled at the many forms of wildlife which, from time to time, can be spotted and heard in our backyard. mais 3.754 palavras

Gossip like silky, smooth...

gos·sip

/ˈɡäsəp/

noun

casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.

“he became the subject of much local gossip” mais 302 palavras

Socratic Wisdom as a Spiritual Discipline

Following the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War of 404 BCE, the victorious Spartans installed the Thirty Tyrants to forcefully control the city and destroy any opposition. mais 1.194 palavras

Philosophy

Two ancient Greek ideas

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Below are my two assignments for this week in Western Civilization I.

1. What was the disagreement Socrates had with the Sophists? mais 641 palavras

Western Civilization I