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dnelly9

Philosopher - 0 views

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  • dnelly9 on 19 Sep 12
     
    this is a PDF. So click on the last link on the first page. It is called "what is a philosopher".
  • Taylor Halverson on 19 Sep 12
     
    Please attach the link to the PDF so that users do not need to search and scroll. Thanks! Dr. Halverson
chandlerbeaman

Chuang Tzu - 0 views

Great Works Assignment 4: Chuang Tzu Objectives: * Students will investigate the great work and analyze information in order to find answers to the crossword clues. * Students will apply their ne...

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skatergeebz

Marcus Aurelius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] - 0 views

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  • Whitney Rauckhorst on 18 Sep 12
     
    One of the 5 "Good Emperors" of Rome.
  • skatergeebz on 25 Sep 12
     
    The philosophy of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius can be found in a collection of personal writings known as the Meditations. These reflect the influence of Stoicism and, in particular, the philosophy of Epictetus, the Stoic. The Meditations may be read as a series of practical philosophical exercises, following Epictetus' three topics of study, designed to digest and put into practice philosophical theory.
kkerr2

Confucius, Analects - 0 views

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  • kkerr2 on 24 Nov 12
     
    Brian Johnson discusses Confucius' "Analects" in a ten-minute philosophical web show. Well-explained, easy to understand.
Holly Snelson

Background to The Canterbury Tales - 0 views

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  • Holly Snelson on 26 Nov 12
     
    The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Tradition of Encyclopedic Works. The huge masterpiece by Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, comes from a tradition of long, encyclopedic style works in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Philosophers and theologians in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12 and 1300s, wrote "sums" of all their knowledge concerning philosophy or...
Lisa Halverson

Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

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  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes
  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
  • John W. Draper (1811-188
  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
joshuajordanlowe

Democritus - 3 views

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  • joshuajordanlowe on 14 Sep 12
     
    Democritus, a brilliant philosopher known for his conception of atoms and matter but also for the theories he put forward about the universe.
Whitley Smith

Galen - 0 views

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  • Whitley Smith on 19 Sep 12
     
    All about Galen, an ancient physician and philosopher.
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