Archive for October, 2008

Liszt/Beethoven transcriptions

Um… I just downloaded Glenn Gould playing Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony 5 off of iTunes and it is blowing me away! I can burn a copy for anyone interested! Just let me know.
(-Gilmore)

PHILOSOPHY ON YOUTUBE

Youtube has some great videos of philosophers talking about, well philosophy and other philosophers. You might find the series with Miles Burnyeat ineresting now that you have finished Plato. Go to Youtube for the whole series:   Miles Burnyeat
Then check out Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle:
Martha Nussbaum

Study Questions for Exam

Study questions—note for each that as you reconstruct arguments or present theories, you should also be prepared to evaluate those arguments/theories:
What are the “intellectual attributes and assumptions” that make it possible for us to group the “presocratics”? In what way do they demonstrate a “spirit of …rational inquiry” ? Give examples from several including the [...]





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