August 2003 * Web version
W.K.C.
Guthrie,
Life of Plato and philosophical influences
In assessing the relationship between Plato and other thinkers, it is possible to be moved by a misguided partisanship, a feeling that to allow them any considerable influence over his mind is somehow to disparage his originality. In fact they provide important clues to it. This É believe to have been particularly true of his Pythagorean friends. Some critics would reduce Pythagoras to a kind of magician and his pre-Platonic followers to religious mystics with a set of irrational taboos and a superstitious reverence for numbers. On the contrary, their combination of religious with mathematical, scientific and political interests may furnish the key to the essential unity of Plato’s thought, which we mistakenly divide into logical, metaphysical, scientific or political compartments. Awareness ïf this unity can only heighten our appreciation of the genius which achieved it. (Read complete)
Ezra Pound, We have the press for wafer
... All things are a flowing, / Sage Heracleitus says; / But a tawdry cheapness / Shall outlast our days. ...
E. A. Poe, The source of all motion * Gregory Theologian, Unity found its rest in Trinity * Maximus Confessor, God is thinking * Origen, You will find a divine perception * Symeon the New Theologian, Becoming invisible and suddenly appearing
* Audio files
(mp3) were added to the
first lesson
in Greek. If you place the player on a side of the screen, you can
let it open to click on consecutive letters, words or phrases.
Recited for Elpenor by Yiannis Marangos.
Readers write: A comment on Scruton's Architecture needs a Grammar, by James Thomas Henry.
Links
The Phaedrus Kit, an environment through which to read and dialogue with the dialogue, by Earl Jackson, Jr. * Various Bible Translations * Mosaics of Hagia Sophia. (pdf, 17 MB). * The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
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Thanks to Hampden-Sydney College for giving us texts for the Jefferson page of The Greeks Us library.
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We have to understand that there lies a struggle before us, greatest than all the other struggles, for the sake of which we must do everything, and suffer whatever our strength permits, in order to prepare ourselves. We must talk with poets and speech writers and talkers and with all men, wherever we could gain some help from to take care of our soul. - Basil the Great
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