Socrates is a cup. Therefore, Socrates is green. Although the above argument is logically valid, neither its premise nor conclusion are actually true. An argument is onlysoundif it is valid and its premise and conclusions are true. See also:False Premise. ...
There’s this idea that the willingness to say the most edgy and offensive things is at the least the supreme intellectual virtue if not identical with love of truth itself, and that anyone who might take issue is on the same level as the jurors who convicted Socrates. Bostrom’s hardly ...
King Tutankhamun was a famous pharaoh of Ancient Egypt who lived from about 1342 until 1325 BCE. Although he died before he turned 20, he still made a significant impact on the life of Egyptians and the way Egyptian history is remembered. He reigned for about 10 years....
Thucydides was a famed Greek soldier and military commander, best remembered for his battle strategies regarding retreat and rearguard defense. Thucydides fought for both the Greeks, under the Spartans, and the Persians over the course of his lifetime. He would also write a semi-biographical ...
The moralization of the Greek gods is thoroughly effected by Socrates and Plato, who cannot imagine the gods doing anything wrong or evil. A similar moral critique is carried out in contemporary Persian religion by the prophet Zoroaster (Zaraθuštra); and Judaism, over a period of time, ...
By such standards, we appraise the Iliad, Aristophanes’ plays, The Art of the Fugue, Middlemarch, the paintings of Rembrandt, Chartres, the poetry of Donne, The Divine Comedy, Beethoven’s quartets, and—among people—Socrates, Jesus, St. Francis, Napoleon, Savonarola. In short...
“[In the dialogue] Socrates hates writing because he thinks it’s going to kill memory,” Horvath says. “And he’s right. Writing absolutely killed memory. But think of all the incredible things we got because of writing. I wouldn’t trade writing for a better recall memory, ever.” ...
One could chalk up this practice to outdated notions of hygiene. But it triggered a memory in me; I thought I remembered that there was modern research done some years ago that backed up this old idea. I fired off a google search, and indeed, I had remembered correctly. ...
The Bible uses an ancient technique of data compression, and is literally the genetic code of our data driven cosmos. It governs the consistency of our collective mind, which is on the cusp of a Super Nova event. You'll either enter the singularity or th
Erasmus, indeed, was essentially a rationalist ("Pray for us, Saint Socrates," he said) and as such is barely remembered as having anything at all to contribute to religion. Luther, on the other hand, was driven by religious passions that still echo in contemporary religious inspiration. ...