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Pomo and Em Church

Posted in Ecclesiology, Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off, Philosophy, Theology on Friday, 3 August 2007 | 2 Comments »

[From here]

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Synodikon of Orthodoxy

Posted in Orthodoxy, Philosophy on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 | 3 Comments »

From the introductory paragraph to the Synodikon of Orthodoxy:
The text of the Synodikon of Orthodoxy has been much altered over the centuries, chiefly by the addition of material and names that postdate the Restoration of the Icons in 843. This is the case with the text that is printed in the current Triodia. Some of [...]

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Plato’s Complete Works Online

Posted in Classics, Philosophy on Saturday, 23 June 2007 | No Comments »

The Hellenophilic Ellopos.net site has a webpage devoted to Plato, from which you can access Plato’s Complete Works. They also have a bilingual anthology of portions of Plato’s works which is not only available online but is downloadable. One of the downloads is the entire Greek Timaeus (along with the LXX Genesis and [...]

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Philosophical Football (At Least the Right Team Wins!)

Posted in Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off, Philosophy on Thursday, 10 May 2007 | 2 Comments »

[The sketch script.]

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Two Book Buys

Posted in Philosophy, Scripture on Sunday, 22 April 2007 | 8 Comments »

I got a lift Friday when the mail brought two books to our mailbox.
The first is Joe Sachs’ translation of Plato’s Republic. As anyone who has read my blog knows, I am quite keen on Sachs’ Aristotle translations. He does, in my view, a masterful job of getting around the Latinate technical terminology to [...]

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Aristotle on Knowledge of First Principles

Posted in Philosophy on Saturday, 20 January 2007 | No Comments »

Although I’m not as well versed in Aristotle’s Organon, and definitely feel more facility with his ethical and metaphysical works, I’ve got to say, I really appreciate the Posterior Analytics.
Posterior Analytics I.1
All instruction given or received by way of argument proceeds from pre-existent knowledge. This becomes evident upon a survey of all the species of [...]

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Joe Sachs on Human Reflection on Experience

Posted in Philosophy on Friday, 9 June 2006 | 1 Comment »

It is not the nature of human beings to let thing that interest us go unthought about. “What is it?” and “Why?” are not just modes of speaking and thinking: they are living ways of standing in and toward the world. In the face of our most powerful experiences, those questions may not [...]

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Aristotle, Akrasia, the “Practical Syllogism,” and Procrastination

Posted in Philosophy on Tuesday, 30 May 2006 | 1 Comment »

The proverbial procrastinators’ dictum runs something like: Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? Many of us struggle in various ways and at various times with procrastination. Our reasons for procrastinating vary widely. Some of us dread doing a particular task. Others of us just prefer to do [...]

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Ivan Kireyevsky on the Limitations of Philosophy

Posted in Philosophy on Friday, 7 April 2006 | No Comments »

From Ivan Kireyevsky’s On the Necessity and Possibility of New Principles in Philosophy (1856):
. . . [B]etween the time of Aristotle and the general submission of world culture to Christian teaching, many centuries elapsed, during which many different and contradictory philosophical systems nourished, consoled, and disturbed man’s reason. Few of these systems, however, were characterised [...]

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A Few Remarks about Studying for Logic

Posted in Philosophy on Wednesday, 29 March 2006 | No Comments »

[Note: I will be passing this out to my logic class this week. Our logic class meets on Monday nights, and our textbooks are Kelley's The Art of Reasoning, and the companion book of analytical readings by Hicks and Kelley.]
I had the benefit of a public school education that taught me how to learn [...]

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Mimesis and Understanding: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics 4.1448B4–19

Posted in Philosophy on Friday, 3 March 2006 | No Comments »

A very interesting article from Classical Quarterly. Note: pdf file.
Mimesis and Understanding: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics 4.1448B4–19

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The Joy of Discovery

Posted in Philosophy on Friday, 20 January 2006 | No Comments »

Back in late spring of 2003, I was reading a translation of Aristotle’s De Anima, specifically III.4-5 on human thinking, and ran across a footnote that tied DA III.5 to the Metaphysics XII.7, 9. That is to say, human thinking episodically thinks the same thing as divine thinking (when each is thinking the form [...]

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Interesting Blogs

Posted in Philosophy on Friday, 13 January 2006 | 1 Comment »

Caveat lector.
Right Reason
The Conservative Philosopher

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Some Free Will Reading

Posted in Philosophy on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 | No Comments »

Back in May, when I was finishing up my paper on free will (pdf file), due to the press of time and urgency, I only quickly and partially engaged the texts that I was utilizing for my paper. (Which in part accounts for why, even by my own estimations, this is not evidence of [...]

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The PhD and the Point of Philosophy

Posted in Philosophy on Tuesday, 11 October 2005 | Comments Off

Mary Midgley’s Proud not to be a doctor (hat tip to Jason), is a good reminder of what the heck I’m doing at Loyola anyway.
I am not saying that the PhD training isn’t useful. It provides the indispensable skills of the lawyer. It shows you how to deal with difficult arguments, which is necessary in [...]

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