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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Three Poem Drafts
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Hail, Rome! Hail, Rome! The sun is bright, the serpent perched on high on bough that bears the apples light whence you shall surely die...
The Sonnet's Scanty Plot of Ground
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Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room by William Wordsworth Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room And hermits are ...
Friday, September 23, 2011
Dialogues, Part III
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Robert Paul Wolff has been doing a series on Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , and while it has been interesting, his post ...
The Shape of Ancient Philosophy: V. The Roman Imperial Period
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For what I am doing here, see this . The political and military changes at the end of the Hellenistic period had a considerable effect on ...
Music on My Mind
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Al Stewart, "Katherine of Oregon". Stewart is an excellent lyricist; this one, in part because it's simultaneously both very...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Shape of Ancient Philosophy: IV. Hellenistic Philosophy
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For what I am doing here, see this . The Hellenistic period is a period consisting of the dominance of Greek culture, from roughly the tim...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Shape of Ancient Philosophy: III. Sophists and Socratics
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For what I am doing here, see this . In the fifth century, Athens began to enter a golden age of prosperity and strength, and the inevitab...
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