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In the first few pages of Plato’s Republic we catch Socrates walking his star pupil, Glaucon, up and away from the Piraeus, the port city attached to Athens. They had gone down there because they had heard a new goddess … Continue reading
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The Constitution is the greatest protector of rights ever penned by man’s hands. Simply by being a written Constitution, the document professes to be a touch-stone of liberty. Like a rulebook, if you want to know if someone is cheating … Continue reading
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“For serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites, if a man is really to have intelligence of either; but he can not carry out both in action, if he is to have any … Continue reading
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I shall be like a doctor tried by a bench of children on a charge brought by a cook. Just consider what defence a person like that would make at such a pass, if the prosecutor should speak against him … Continue reading
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How do you describe light in terms of shadows? You certainly can’t construct light from its absence. How does one reveal to another what the other has yet to experience? With all due respect to Mr. Morrison, I don’t believe … Continue reading
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This discussion can be found at this TouchCast link… Keep in mind that if you view this in Google Chrome, you can actually interact with the links and images I place in this video. http://www.touchcast.com/thrasymachus/Do-U-Exist—A-Thought-Experiment The following is an outline … Continue reading
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We conservatives love to tout our admiration of the American Founders, their ideas, and their spirit…and deservedly so. However, it’s short sighted to celebrate their focus on Natural Rights, freedom, small government, republican government, etc. and then distance ourselves from … Continue reading
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Thomas Hobbes contends, both explicitly and implicitly, in his Leviathan that political philosophy is an impossible project because the greatest of the political philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) had failed to convert political wisdom into an attainable goal. In other words, … Continue reading
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Sometimes, the sparks our students produce in class are nothing more than reflections of our own burning educational flames. Our inspiration animates students and gets them thinking and doing in our presence, but can they keep those Promethean embers alive … Continue reading
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