Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

Plato’s Myth of Atlantis, the End of the Minoan Civilization, and A Hard Look at Human Extinction
May 11, 2011

Lost Worlds: Atlantis . Secrets of the Dead: Sinking Atlantis http://video.pbs.org/video/1204753806 . Plato on Deforestation, Soil Abuse and Water Mismanagement “What now remains of the formerly rich land is like the skeleton of a sick man, with all the fat and soft earth having wasted away and only the bare framework remaining. Formerly, many of [...]

In The Beginning, There Was Eros.
April 15, 2011

“These things declare to me from the beginning, you Muses who dwell in the house of Olympus, [115] and tell me which of them first came to be. In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all1the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus [...]

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