Thursday, August 31, 2006

Principle 1: Cultural Transition from Mythos to Logos

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Logos-culture authors Plato and Aristotle from The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio Dear Reader, You are in luck. The first principl...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Principles of Ancient Greek Philosophy

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Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus in Heraclitus by Hendrick ter Brugghen Dear Reader, Just as good writing requires the author to unders...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

Rashid and Surya are Growing

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Dear Reader, Although you cannot see it in this picture, Rashid is larger than Surya, though both are still small kitties. Rashid's coa...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

The Queen of Eene

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Dear Reader, The ongoing challenge in our household is to introduce our new kittens Rashid and Surya to our seventeen-year-old cat Morgana, ...
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Something New to Think With

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Dear Reader, Albert Einstein is supposed to have said or written "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level o...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Verbal Medicine

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Dear Reader, When I was younger, I believed we were all created equal, that anyone could do what anyone else could do. I well understood so...
Thursday, August 17, 2006

Gender in English, Ancient and Modern

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Dear Reader, Many writers have remarked on the problem of expressing or not expressing gender in Modern English. Women ask why man is the...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Don't Fear the River

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Dear Reader, Prior to Serge Mouraviev's current project, there have only been a handful of serious efforts to collect together much of t...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Rashid and Surya

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Dear Reader, The picture is of Rashid sleeping on Surya the night we brought them home. He's all black except for pale nipples when he ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Kitty Day

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Dear Reader, July 12th in the Phinney Creek household will hereafter be known as Kitty Day, when in Shakti's memory we brought home a pa...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Gifts of Grief and Fear

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Dear Reader, When I was young, I wanted to be like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, free from emotion and able to think rationally at all times. A...
Friday, June 02, 2006

A Few New Links

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Dear Reader, If you have not yet fallen in love with Judith Martin's column for the Washington Post, Miss Manners, you are in for a trea...

The Big Picture

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Dear Reader, Beverly just handed me the following quote: If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to ...
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Culture and Cultivation

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Dear Reader, Of course, even if we do cultivate our characters we will suffer the fatal consequences, since character is fate; cultivating o...

Free Will and Determinism

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Dear Reader, We are taught to believe we have free will. We are also taught not to question that teaching. In the spirit of Modernism (i.e...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Heraclitea by Serge Mouraviev

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Dear Reader, In Chapter VII, "Heraclitus," of A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume One: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagor...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Discrete Silence

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Dear Reader, Today I deleted a few lines from one of my past blog entries. I am returning to my original plan for this blog of never discus...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Anna Lee Walters

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Dear Reader, I have collected some information on the wife of our host Harry Walters. Here are two online biographies of Anna Lee Walters: ...
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Home from Dinetah

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Dear Reader, I arrived home an hour and a half ago, though half my heart is still in Dinetah with the family of Harry and Anna Walters. Jer...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Vacation

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Dear Reader, I will be off for the next two weeks hiking and photographing in the southwest with my friends Jerry and Gary. See you when I ...