This is my transcription of Alexander Wilder's serial in on Plato's "Republic" in H.W. Percival's "The Word" magazine (1906-8) It was originally entitled "Man a City." It is from my scans of p...
This is my transcription from Wilder's series in "The Word" magazine (1905). It was originally titled "The Origin of the Universe and Man - Timaios." - M.R.J.
This my transcription and compilation of Alexander Wilder material in "The Word" magazine on Plato's Dialogues. Thanks to R.R for help with material and his Wilder/The Word bibliography. - M....
Rediscover the long-forgotten spiritual masters of Egypt and Europe. Johnsen, a leading author on Eastern spirituality, reveals how some of the most famous Greek thinkers – including Plato, Pythago...
Abstract
Within the text of Plato’s Symposium (Jowett, 1975) a dialogue on love takes place. When it is Socrates turn to speak he defers to Diotima, his teacher. He tells of her wisdom and shares ...
Socrates (469-399 B.C.) had episodes of what some called Epilepsy. Contemporary historians and his followers all concurred with the self-admitted fact that Socrates had visions of a Daemon who was ...
PRAYERS ARE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL INSTRUMENTS WITH PURPOSES SUCH AS REQUEST, PRAISE, OR GIVE THANKS, WHETHER IT IS TO GOD, CHRISTS OF PLANETS, THEIR SYSTEMS OR GALAXIES, OR TO ANGELS, THAT IS, THE M...
Rezumat: Calea de trezire expusa de Lao Zi in capitolul 11 este similara celei in care Patanjali defineste yoga, in sutra a II-a din cartea intai(Samadhi Pada): "yogas-chitta-vritti-nirodhah", [adi...
A man shares his synthesis of ancient and quasi-empirical thinking that helped him to become more open to receive the grace that he needed to conquer the passions of the flesh to return to God what...
THE REPUBLIC
by Plato
(360 B.C.)
translated by Benjamin Jowett
THE Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of
the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There a...
my essay on Helium.com about post-secondary institutes in the West and its corruption.
A short history is included in the introduction...plesae comment!
A philosophical anecdotage, in the literary tradition and in the artistic iconography, with peculiar reference to the apologue of Thales in the well, and to the parable of St. Augustine and Child o...