Plato On Book Tour

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Plato reacts to the 21st century. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein types.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2014.

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  1. 30. sij

    My NYC friends, I'll be speaking this Saturday 9:30pm at the amazingly exciting Night of Philosophy and Ideas @ Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza library, sponsored by the French Embassy in cities around the world (though I'm most partial to Brooklyn)

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    Why Sir Nicholas Winton is trending.

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  3. 23. sij

    When I was in grad school, focusing on philosophy of science, nothing would crack me up more than the thought of applying philosophical thinking to "that old chestnut." What happened? Either I'm getting wiser . . . or senile.

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    22. sij

    Fiction Meets Science is co-hosting the ScienceHumanities International Summer School for Ph.D. students this year. Please pass the flier on!

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    This is your daily reminder that Elizabeth Warren has been fighting for working families since forever.

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  6. 31. pro 2019.

    This is dispiriting, if not surprising. You bet that wonderful projects like yours need support.

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    26. pro 2019.
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  8. 25. pro 2019.

    On this day a babe was born who would bring order & beauty to our vision of the world. Happy birthday Sir Isaac Newton (at least according to the old Julian calendar).

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  9. 23. pro 2019.

    Deontologists can be very irritable.

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    GOP seems a bit confused so let’s clarify What impeachment is NOT: •Crucifixion •Pearl Harbor •Salem Witch Trials •Nullification of 2016 Election What Impeachment IS: •Constitutionally mandated accountability for violating the Presidential oath of office

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  11. 17. pro 2019.

    9. He held that there is a rational order to the universe so that the human capacity for grasping explanations can gradually assimilate it. 10. He believed that reason is a morally transformative force.

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  12. 17. pro 2019.

    7. He wrestled with the problem of balancing fairness within a society with the unequal distribution of talents 8. He put forth a naturalist theory of meaning (Cratylus), though not clear he believed it.

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  13. 17. pro 2019.

    6. He pointed out & tried to devise defenses against the kinds of problems with democracy (particularly its vulnerability to demagogues) whose contemporary relevance is only too painfully apparent.

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  14. 17. pro 2019.

    5. Plato created the first European university, gathering all the best mathematicians in Greece to further the sciences and also, he hoped, to produce worthy statesmen.

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  15. 17. pro 2019.

    3.Plato subjected his own ideas to endless critical reason, giving up even his Theory of Forms in later dialogues. 4. What he substituted for the Theory of Forms is mathematics, which is why Galileo (toppler of scholasticism) referred to him as the Divine Plato.

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  16. 17. pro 2019.

    2. Plato emphasized the distinction between the psychological notion of belief and the epistemological notion of knowledge (true belief with a good account for why it is true) without which there could not be science.

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    13. pro 2019.

    Seven years ago started as a normal Friday morning. After getting Dylan and Jake on the bus, I did chores until I left for an exercise class. While driving to class, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach, so bad that I almost pulled over to the side of the road, convinced I was...

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  18. 9. pro 2019.

    I'm in Brussels today to speak at European Parliament on "The Case for Humanism." A nice coincidence is that today is the anniversary of the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed December 10, 1948.

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  19. 24. stu 2019.

    Happy birthday, Spinoza! "Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue . . have no other aim but to make others as wretched as themselves; wherefore it is nothing wonderful if they be generally troublesome and odious to their fellow-men."

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  20. 16. stu 2019.

    From Aug 9, 1974, until June 16, 2015, politics took a back seat to the things that most occupied me. I hope someday to be able to return to that state of mind.

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