#Plato

Bradley Dart ☪️✍️🍊🌹🇨🇦♂️ BSc/BA/MMath/MA

philomathein

Ranked ballots usually refers to ordinal preference (1st, 2nd, etc) rather than cardinal values (say, /10). Arrow's Theorem (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/) only applies to ordinal rankings, because of the problems w

Jane Coaston

janecoaston

This is where I get into my “performative politics” spiel and make references to Plato’s cavehttps://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1359924707575943173 In short, there’s a lot of politics, particularly on this platform, that is abou

Craig A. Carter

CraigACarter1

1/x. I frequently get asked what to read in philosophy. There are no shortcuts. If you started an MDiv w/o the equiv. of a minor in Phil. you were at

Bronze Age Pervert

bronzeagemantis

What an absurd and inverted thread. Since 1920-40s you have state repression of, let's say, the vitality of Mussolini's and associated movements. Whenever that sphere of views isn't censored or

Patrick Lee Miller

Plato4Now

Before VirtueAlasdair MacIntyre wrote a powerful book in the ‘80’s called *After Virtue*. It shaped a whole generation of thinkers who are now exerting influence. Most of @PatrickDeneen ‘s *Why

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

So, this is a teaching story I often tell on the road, and a kind of teaching we should get back to. In 1985, after working my way through college

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

From Plato's "Protagoras" on the Spartans...“And in Lacedaemon and Crete not only men but also women have a pride in their high cultivation. And hereby you may know that I

Ijtihadi ibn al-Issue

AthariTanjiro

Liberal “Muslims” tend to be more islamophobic than actual islamophobes. Anyone who lives their life according to orthodoxy and don’t take an “opinion” that fulfills their desires is a terrorist

Agnes Callard

AgnesCallard

When we turn from Plato to Aristotle, I warn my students: This is likely to bore you. That's ok! I usually find Aristotle boring! Don't think "because this bores me,

Parveen Kaswan, IFS

ParveenKaswan

Remembering Maharaja #Surajmal on his birth anniversary, rightly called as 'Plato of Jat people'. History of the world is but the biography of great men and those who don't know

"the wife"

mrs_cae

One of the best articles I've read of late:https://www.alicevonhildebrand.org/wrong-approaches-to-art# "Plato intimates this fact when he writes in Phaedrus: "At the sight of beauty, wings grow on the human soul.""

Kent Bye VoicesOfVR

kentbye

1/ I'm a huge fan of Process Philosophy as the catalyst of a paradigm shift.Rather than seeing things as static objects, Process Philosophy sees reality as a set of dynamic

Alex Priou

alexpriou

There are two ways to show (τὸ δεικνύναι) something: by demonstration (ἀπόδειξις) and by example (παράδειγμα).The former is certain but unedifying, the latter edifying but suspect.The former requires first pr

Aristotle

AristotlesStgra

Meno's paradox and logic: a thread.Meno's paradox says 1) you can't inquire into what you know (you know it already)2) you can't inquire into what you don't know3) you have

Adam

NetNobody

Living in the past will have you seeing stones. Cubes beneath my feet, plato would say he's skipping those. One more bar seems to many thrown, to minds in glass

David Lay Williams

LayWilliams

1) Looks like Charlie Kirk is speaking to my area of expertise, citing Plato's influence on Rousseau. I happen to have written a book on this very subject, Rousseau's Platonic

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