Philosophy
- John Locke
(1632-1704) One of the common things among Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz is that they are all rationalists. Rationalism is the system of thought, which believes in reason as a primary source of knowledge. A rationalist may also believe that man has certain...
- Diotima On Love - Extracts
From Plato?s book; The Symposium (The Drinking Party) Several speakers give a short speech saying what they think love is; and then finally Socrates says what he thinks love is. His speech includes the speech of the mysterious wise woman Diotima who instructs...
- The Three Powers Of The Psyche (soul) And Their Virtues
In the early spring of 2013 I had the pleasure to attend three ?Socratic? lectures in London given by Tim Addey and Guy Wyndham-Jones of the Prometheus Educational Trust. I posted brief details at the time for anyone who might want to go along; but now...
- 'the Philosopher In The Soul' - A Talk By Guy Wyndham-jones
[I am currently attending in London a very interesting series of 5 talks/seminars presented by the Prometheus Trust. A sample of the notes to the second talk is below with a link to the full notes on the Trust?s website for those that like the flavour...
- ?is There A Good Or ?best? Order In Which To Read The Dialogues Of Plato?
Socrates and Plato ? Bite Size Chunks ? No. 4 (Posted by James Head - Autumn 2011) Someone recently asked the following question on a Face book Group:'I have been itching to really read the dialogues of Plato. And I finished ?Alcibiades I? last night;...
Philosophy
'The Philosopher Amongst the Stars' - A talk by Tim Addey
'The Philosopher Amongst the Stars'
[I am currently attending in London a very interesting series of 5 talks/seminars presented by the Prometheus Trust. A sample of the notes to the third talk is below with a link to the full notes on the Trust?s website for those that like the flavour of my ?taster??]
'... In the political life we perceive eternal ideas in material forms ? for example we see a number of beautiful things, but we don't see beauty just by itself; we see a number of instances of equality, but not the equal itself; and we see a whole range of things grouped into, say, fives, but we never perceive five just as itself. Nevertheless, we could not bring to bear our reason upon the outer world of "instances" unless we were able to affirm the presence of beauty, equality, fiveness and a host of other ideas within the mundane world.....
The attempt to apply reason to that world ?and I'm using the word reason in its widest and deepest sense, so that it includes intuition as well as more the more usual forms of reason - is a necessary part of soul life: it places the human soul in the great chain of goodness which connects all things in a procession from, and a return to, the ineffable Principle of Principles.....
In the cathartic life we begin to perceive eternal ideas more clearly ? we move inwards to apply our faculties upon ourselves and the more opaque clothing of materiality around the ideas drops away. Now we see those ideas in terms of the soul ? which is immaterial, an essence, and the first of moving things ? in other words we see ideas as reasons which are the real and immaterial streams of truths which emerge from eternal unmoving but dynamic ideas. But this is by no means the end of the journey......... '
Philosopher Amongst the Stars - Prometheus Trust
- John Locke
(1632-1704) One of the common things among Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz is that they are all rationalists. Rationalism is the system of thought, which believes in reason as a primary source of knowledge. A rationalist may also believe that man has certain...
- Diotima On Love - Extracts
From Plato?s book; The Symposium (The Drinking Party) Several speakers give a short speech saying what they think love is; and then finally Socrates says what he thinks love is. His speech includes the speech of the mysterious wise woman Diotima who instructs...
- The Three Powers Of The Psyche (soul) And Their Virtues
In the early spring of 2013 I had the pleasure to attend three ?Socratic? lectures in London given by Tim Addey and Guy Wyndham-Jones of the Prometheus Educational Trust. I posted brief details at the time for anyone who might want to go along; but now...
- 'the Philosopher In The Soul' - A Talk By Guy Wyndham-jones
[I am currently attending in London a very interesting series of 5 talks/seminars presented by the Prometheus Trust. A sample of the notes to the second talk is below with a link to the full notes on the Trust?s website for those that like the flavour...
- ?is There A Good Or ?best? Order In Which To Read The Dialogues Of Plato?
Socrates and Plato ? Bite Size Chunks ? No. 4 (Posted by James Head - Autumn 2011) Someone recently asked the following question on a Face book Group:'I have been itching to really read the dialogues of Plato. And I finished ?Alcibiades I? last night;...