#Plato

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

My guess at the standard Western canon in philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Epicurus, Cicero, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, Spinoza, Kant

Starman Dan

AlienWithABox

Alright, it's time to do a thread on Achilles, Patroclus, and pederasty.I'm a trans mlm who studied ancient Greece in my final years of high school. This largely included areas

Marc Mulholland

katheder

There's no reason to doubt that leaving the EU will have a downward pull on UK economic growth, but it'll be hard to see in year-to-year fluctuations and a lot

Scott B. Ritner

podsekalnikov

I agree with a lot of what @MarxinHell does here. Opening the relation. I would also add that @robynmarasco made the excellent point that the family, as a whole, is

Andrew Knoll

andrew_knoll

Haha! I meant to just be articulating the claims of the first two polls you posted. I'll do my best to summarize Chakravartty's article (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/#WhatScieReal)(THREAD):https://twitter.co

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

African Ancient schools_Famous well known Greeks (Europeans) whom we study their history and writings, studied at the feet of Ancient Egyptian (Kemet) scholars at the Temple of Waset founded 1405B.C

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: THE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE]1/31Should the tolerant tolerate the intolerant? The question has given sleepless nights to political thinkers for centuries. That's because it's a paradox, but also because

Colin McMaster

colinmcnasty

The Lost City of Atlantis: A Thread The legend of Atlantis reflects one of humanity’s greatest unsolved mysteries. Where did this civilization come from, what happened to it, where is

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Let’s check in, as @PaulSkallas says, with the DMs. Five books after @nntaleb I’ll take the Taleb-namecheck seriously. Black Swan is an amazing book, which merges life history, fiction,

𝐖𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 ⚔ 𝐖𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫

WinEveryday_

"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigour." - CiceroFitness has always been important for us throughout history,Here are 5 ways that history can

john milbank

johnmilbank3

It seems incredible that after the efforts of so many scholars people have reverted to talking about ‘theism’ which has never existed. Also forgotten is that the very term ‘philosophy

Antifascist Alligator 🐊

Antifagator

Here's an idpol thread that isn't really about idpol. Because what's often referred to derisively as "idpol", better called representation politics or tokenism, is not any sort of modern development.

Prakhar Raghuvanshi | प्रखर रघुवंशी

overbreadthh

A thread of books read in 2020. I managed to read 53 books. You can find some legal non fiction, philosophy, biographies, memoirs, economics, political theory and a little bit

Bryan W. Van Norden

BryanVanNorden

The story that Alexander the Great's mistress Phyllis was Aristotle's dominatrix was popular in the late middle ages and early Renaissance. It was supposedly a cautionary tale about seductive women,

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zei_squirrel

this cartoon is from *1997*. they're literally regurgitating the same material from the 90s "pc culture run amok!". at least jordan peterson had some original material with the chaos dragons

Rauðgrani ᚱᛆᚢᚦᚴᚱᛆᚿᛁ

GraniRau

3rd-4th century mosaic. The Sun God Sol. He is holding the sphere of the heavens in his hand. What makes this notable is that this is from a Jewish synagogue.

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