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- 191: Philosophy - Socrates View Of
- ... as if it is something that just plainly is. People tend to just go with it, and think that what they are feeling is really complete and substantial love. In Plato’s The Symposium, the reader is confronted with some very different views of love as brought to us by Agathon, Phaedrus and Socrates, to name a few. Each man at ...
- 192: Life and Times of Alexander the Great
- ... Philip decided it was time for Alexander to receive a higher education better befitting his young heir. Searching throughout his empire, Philip was lucky enough to find a student of Plato who was at the time unemployed, a young genius named Aristoteles (commonly known as Aristotle). Aristotle's father, Nakimachos, had been Macedonia's court physician, so Aristotle was quite familiar ...
- 193: Philosophy - Socrates
- ... never felt that he was wise for he was always in the pursuit of knowledge. Unfortunately, Socrates was put to death late in his life. One of his best students, Plato, however, recorded what had occurred on that last day of Socrates' life. On that last day of his life, Socrates made a quite powerful claim. He claimed that philosophy was ...
- 194: Greek Tragedies
- ... famous philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. He was the most radical philosopher the Western tradition had ever produced; he posed a fundamental challenge to the rationalism that has dominated Western philosophy since Plato. Trained in classical linguistics, Nietzsche in his earliest work described two conflicting "spirits" in Greek culture. The Dionysian after the god Dionysis spirit was passionate and communal. By contrast, the ...
- 195: Satie, Erik
- ... on which Pablo Picasso and Leonid Massine also collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death of Socrates. The young composers who formed the essentially Parisian group known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in ...
- 196: Cleopatra Biography
- ... made was one of great impact, leaving him infatuated with her. Cleopatra knew exactly how to get into Antony’s life and thus benifit hers. “The Roman writer Plutarch wrote “Plato admits four types of flattery, but she had a thousand. Were Antony serious or disposed to mirth, she had at any moment some new delight or charm to meet his ...
- 197: Aristotle
- ... of his time at the Macedonian court. At the age of seventeen, he was sent away to study in Athens. It was there that he transformed to a disciple of Plato. Over time, Aristotle became the "mind of the school". Later in his life, he followed his mentor and became a teacher in a school on the coast of Asia minor ...
- 198: The Writings of Cicero
- ... A distinction is evident between Cicero's philosophical works and his non- philosophical writings and oratories.11 On the matter of immortality of the soul, Cicero was in accordance with Plato rather than early stoics. The early stoics preached that the soul and body survive, yet not within a sense of capacity. By this they meant the soul was together with ...
- 199: Descartes
- ... as well as it's provincial ideology once attained, education before the 1800's played a limited role in the history of Education. From the rhetoric-based Greek age of Plato and Aristotle to colonial America, education was mostly an elitist institution that was inaccessible to most and, if one was so privileged as to attain it, full of hackneyed, non ...
- 200: The Writing Styles of 2 Prominent British Science Fiction Authors
- ... kinds of thinking, directed and undirected thought. In The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931), Wells talks in chapter two of directed thought as something which enters philosophy with Plato and which defines the scientific aspect of modern civilization. Undirected thought is a sort of muzzy version of thinking, imaginative play, almost what we would call a hypnoid state." (Aldiss ...
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