Tag: philosophy
Symposium–No more sheets
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Symposium–divine strategies
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Symposium–woman, thou art loosed!
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Symposium–Lord, sit on me!
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Symposium–He brought me out on a crumb
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Prometheus and the flames of the future
By Stone Washington “For seeing they saw not, and hearing they understood not, but like shapes in a dream they wrought all the days of their lives in confusion.” “It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.” ~ Prometheus, Prometheus […]
33 years waiting to be interviewed by my Detroit
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.~ Mark 6:4Do not set out to destroy society – you’ll frighten men. Flood society with mediocrity men in high places – and society is destroyed. ~ Ellis Washington (a paraphrase of Ayn Rand) Ellis Washington […]
The triumph of Ayn Rand and the Fountainhead
Don’t set out to raze all shrines – you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity – and the shrines are razed.~ Ellsworth Toohey If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit? ~ Howard Roark Prologue to a Conservative Utopia The Fountainhead is a 1949 American film based on […]
Oedipus Ordeal: Defy Truth or Abandon Injustice
“He shall be found at once brother and father of the children with whom he consorts; son and husband of the woman who bore him; heir to his father’s bed, shedder of his father’s blood.” ~ Teiresias, the blind prophet, Oedipus Rex “Given time, you’ll see this well, I know: you do yourself no good, […]
Symposium–Tell the devil I changed my mind
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
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