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The Trial of Socrates: as told in the Apology--one of the best-known works of Greek philosophy and literature--the Trial of Socrates was a dramatic court case that led to the death of Socrates, the greek philosopher. An ambitious young Athenian, Meletus (with Anytus and Lycon), led the prosecution against Socrates. He accused Socrates of being "a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own." A trial before a jury of 501 Athenian citizens was held in which Socrates called into question the whole basis for the trial instead of putting on a self-abasing, eloquent defense, which was expected.
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Zeno of Elea (circa 490 BC? – circa 430 BC?) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Called by Aristotle the inventor of the dialectic, he is best known for his paradoxes. "In this capricious world nothing is more capricious than posthumous fame. One of the most notable victims of posterity's lack of judgement is the Eleatic Zeno. Having invented four arguments all immeasurably subtle and profound, the grossness of subsequent philosophers pronounced him to be a mere ingenious juggler, and his arguments to be one and all sophisms. After two thousand years of continual refutation, these sophisms were reinstated, and made the foundation of a mathematical renaissance …" Bertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics I (1903)
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Socrate (1970): directed by Roberto Rossellini, written by Roberto Rossellini and Marcella Mariani and starring Jean Sylvère and Anne Caprile. User Comments: An excellent treatment of the last days of Socrates.
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Computable numbers: in the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism is an approach to mathematics as the constructive mental activity of humans. It maintains that only mathematical entities which can be explicitly constructed have a claim to existence and should be admitted in mathematical discourse. In Intuitionism, the term "explicit construction" is not cleanly defined, and that has lead to criticisms. Attempts have been made to use the concepts of Turing machine or recursive function to fill this gap, leading to the claim that only questions regarding the behavior of finite algorithms are meaningful and should be investigated in mathematics. This has led to the study of the computable numbers, first introduced by Alan Turing. The computable numbers, also known as the recursive numbers are the subset of the real numbers consisting of the numbers which can be computed by a finite, terminating algorithm.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
G. K. Chesterton
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of them.
Suzanne K. Langer
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Muriel Spark
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary
Philosophy by Van Morrison
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Buddha’s Delight
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Something (I Think It's Pie)
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Western philosophy is an anagram of So slippery when hot
Doctors of philosophy is an anagram of Hi, too psycho old profs!
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The entomologist A. A. Girault named a group of tiny wasps for writers, scientists, statesmen, and philosophers (Shakespearia, Beethovena, Goetheana, Marxella, etc.). He named a wasp genus THOREAUIA after the philosopher Henry David Thoreau. This word has five consecutive vowels.
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Love's Philosophy by P. B. Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle—
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdain'd its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea—
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
Beard and cloak do not make one a philosopher. (German)
Where philosophy ends medicine begins. (German)
Wise men philosophize as the fools live on. (Korean)
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. (Latin)
The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how. (Polish)
Better a healthy donkey than a consumptive philosopher. (Romanian)
When coins rattle, philosophers are silent. (Serbian)
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. (Traditional)
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