Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
K8
They return to the house of Cephalus, Polemarchus' father, now in extreme old age, who is found sitting upon a cushioned seat crowned for a sacrifice. 'You should come to me oftener, Socrates, for I am too old to go to you; and at my time of life, having lost other pleasures, I care the more for conversation.' Socrates asks him what he thinks of age, to which the old man replies, that the sorrows and discontents of age are to be attributed to the tempers of men, and that age is a time of peace in which the tyranny of the passions is no longer felt.
Introduction to Plato's The Republic
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
K7
Television shows, highways, and parking lots are the visions that occupy much of the American mind.
Orion
Saturday, November 5, 2011
K6
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment".
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - Manifesto of the Communist Party
Friday, November 4, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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