Is anyone else completely lost on this third paper? I don’t feel like I can manage to get the two different views and passages and evaluations into 4 -5 pages. Let alone pick them. Any advice?
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Alain de Botton discussing Epicurus on YouTube-Your Comments–do you agree/disagree with his account?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LTTRQcZ…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz1ItMUaf…
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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)
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—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 [...]
I felt like we covered Phaedo pretty well in class today, but I still had a few things to throw out. My main thought was that since Socrates is about to die, doesn’t it make sense that he emphatically believes in an immortal soul and the afterlife? I can’t think of an example when a [...]
So, I was thinking about Crito today in class (as I should have been) and when we started to talk about Civil Disobedience and Socrates, my main point that I kept in my little head was that Socrates didn’t have a problem with the Laws. Does anyone doubt that? I mean, he said himself that [...]
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I’d thought there would be more comments by now. Plato, anyone? Am I the only one who sees Socrates as a definite Christ figure?
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