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Freedom and Doublethink A Note Athenian Voting Machine Freedom is possibly the most important political value we have in conte...

The Philosopher as Tyrant Critias of Athens Critias One of the most common conceits among intellectuals is the fantasy / longi...

That Sinking Feeling Atlantis Part I Plato’s Purpose Destruction of Atlantis One of the most popular of myths has been Plato...

The Death of Socrates A Note The Death of Socrates by David One of the great tropes of the Western Tradition is the Death of S...

Plato’s “Empathy” Bust of Plato In Plato’s dialogues there is sometimes the fact that the context, or set up, to his dialogue’s is...

Stolen Fantasy The Pyramids of Giza The following is an old posting I did years ago in reply to a posting at the Website In the Hall of Maa...

St. Augustine Predestined Part of a Painting of Hell by Hieronymus Bosch   One of most important, but also in my opinion dangerous a...

A little Democritus Democritus The famed philosopher Democritus, who lived in the 5 th century B.C.E., is best known to day for his theory ...

Lost in Plato's Cave Plato's Cave [Socrates] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or...