the unexamined life is not worth living
the unexamined life is not worth living Socrates (Plato, 1997, 33) The unexamined life is not worth living is perhaps Socrates’ most famous quote and
Quotes
Words of wisdom, provocation, and inspiration.
Žižek on the history of humanity and violence
Couldn’t the entire history of humanity be seen as a growing normalisation of injustice, entailing the nameless and faceless suffering of millions?
Gillian Rose: To be a philosopher you need three things
Gillian Rose Quote: What do you need to be a philosopher? You discover that you are a philosopher: it is not something you ever become.
The Science and Culture of Health, Strength, and Beauty
Plato speaks of the three physical virtues—health, strength, and beauty—as joining to form one chorus with the virtues of the soul—piety, courage, temperance, and justice.
The best thing for being sad
The best thing for being sad is, Merlyn tells Wart, something that the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, and never dream of regretting
Hegel and Martin Luther King
Hegel and Martin Luther King shared a deep understanding of profound change. There can be nothing new without a struggle with the old. And they might be telling us something important about right now
What is a University?
When medievals first spoke of university they were referring not so much to institutions as to people.
Philosophy and Kant
Towards the conclusion of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason he writes something that might come as a surprise.
Learning and the Soul
In Plato’s Republic the allegory of the cave reveals that each of us has a unique capacity to learn.
Nietzsche on the Body
The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd.
Learning changes you
Higher education has now joined the growing list of subjects about which it is increasingly difficult to have an informed public argument.
Education: the two most important things.
Might it be said that the two most important things that education has to do contradict each other.
Most people don’t grow up – Maya Angelou
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
