Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Rashid and Surya a Year Ago

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Dear Reader, July of last year we brought home Rashid and Surya from PAWS. He was snuffly with a cold, which it took him a week and a half t...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

True words aren't beautiful

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Dear reader, One last verse, 81, from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : True words aren't beautiful beautiful words aren't t...
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The Way begets them

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Dear reader, Here is verse 51 from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : The Way begets them Virtue keeps them matter shapes them usage ...

The Tao Moves the Other Way

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Dear Reader, Here is verse 40 from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : The Tao moves the other way the Tao works through weakness the ...

Lao Tzu's Taoteching

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Dear Reader, Heraclitus and Lao Tzu were probably contemporaries, though Lao Tzu was probably the elder. Any reader of their books is struck...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

The Finger

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Dear Reader, Yesterday, I resumed the Ancient Greek Philosophy course I am taking from Kenneth Smith. We are still working our way through H...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Communication

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Dear Reader, I go through phases in which I cannot bear to "communicate" with my fellow human beings. Communication would be nice,...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Fame

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Dear Reader, I hope I never become famous. I certainly do my best in this blog to ensure I never will. Yours truly, Rick

Humanism, the Modern Temper

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Dear Reader, Man, Nature, and God: what are the relations among these three? What is the rightful source of values, morals, behavior, cultur...
Monday, December 25, 2006

Rethinking My Approach

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Dear Reader, Three entries in three months tells me I am taking the wrong approach, and usually this kind of blockage means I am following a...
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Culturing Our Wants

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Dear Reader, Heraclitus wrote Anthrôpoisi ginesthai hokosa thelousi ouk ameinon, which Philip Wheelwright translates as It would not be bett...
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Critique of My False Analogies

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Dear Reader, You are not in as much luck as I predicted. Not only the title of the previous post is confusing, but also the initial parts of...
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...