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What is Europe?
In 2002 I transplanted myself, due to an impulse of and from the heart to the northern aspect of Europe from the cultural decay of San Francisco, California, USA. My heart is still in San Francisco, but not in its current … Continue reading
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
These are the words of Sir Isaac Newton, 1675 A.D., quoting a well-known saying coined a few hundred years earlier. He was reminding us of the debt that current scholars owe to the great ones of the past. Newton was a physicist, … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Greece, History, Philosophy, Science & the Sciences
Tagged "After Virtue", Alasdair MacIntyre, Alexander of Macedon, Alfred North Whitehead, Anaxagoras, Anaximander, Anaximenes of Miletus, anthropomorphic, Archelaus, Archytas, Aristotle, Democritus, Dicaearchus, Diogenes Laertius, Edwin Hubble, Empedocles, Epicurus, Eudemus, G. S. Kirk, Gorgias, H.E. Krehbiel, Hellenism, Heraclitus, Herodotus, hubris, J. E. Raven, Joseph Campbell, Leucippus, Ludwig van Beethoven, Melissus of Samos, metempsychosis, Parmenides, Pherecydes of Syros, Philolaus, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophers, Protagoras, Pythagoras Thales of Miletus, Pythagorean Theorem, reincarnation, scientism, Secular Humanism, Sir Isaac Newton, Socrates, Sophists, Thales of Miletus, The Eleatic School, The Enlightenment, The Republic, Truth, Xenophanes, Zeno of Elea
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