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A Thought-Question Posted on FB

Posted in Philosophy, Theology on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Do most arguments against the existence of God result from deductive and definitional syllogisms? Do most arguments for the existence of God result from inductive and experiential probable strength? (Madman Mundt: I’ll show you the life of the mind!)

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Dust in the Wind . . . Dude

Posted in Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off, Kansas, Music, Philosophy on Friday, 24 April 2009 | 5 Comments »

And of course:

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Dr David Bradshaw’s Home Page

Posted in Church Fathers, Classics, Ecclesiology, Orthodox Links, Orthodoxy, Patristics Sources, Philosophy, Prayer, Scriptures and Patristics, Theology, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Please visit Dr. David Bradshaw’s homepage which contain some extremely intelligent and useful essays (particular a couple of papers on the term energeia, or, in English, “energies”).
You will not be disappointed.

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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 | Leave a Comment »

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 | Leave a Comment »

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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