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Sources for possible take on the Timaeus
In Rabbi Judah HaLevi's Sefer HaKuzari (Book of the Khazar) he states in 1:63:
The Rabbi: There is an excuse for the Philosophers. Being Grecians, science and religion did not come to them as ...
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Who are the 'top five' leading/seminal authors/sources on the philosophy of intelligence, from the 19th to 21st centuries?
I am working to trace the nature of philosophical thought about intelligence over time, thinking that the overall body of thought has accelerated in 19th to 21st centuries, fueled by technological ...
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Is it truth or not truth that Aristotle might not have written the lecture notes that are so important for philosophers?
Surviving fragments of the many lost works of Aristotle were included
in the fifth volume of Bekker's edition, edited by Valentin Rose.
These are not cited by Bekker numbers, however, but according to
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Did Protagoras really think that holding the javelin responsible was a viable resolution to the Lancer's Trilemma?
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Plutarch wrote that Pericles and Protagoras spent a whole day discussing an interesting point of legal responsibility, that probably involved a more philosophical question of ...
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The joy of resolving a philosophical doubt
In his entry on Epicureanism in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, David Sedley wrote:
"There are mental as well as bodily kinetic pleasures, for example, (perhaps) the 'joy' of resolving ...
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When did Walter Benjamin say "We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector"?
In for instance this source, it is stated that Walter Benjamin once said or wrote the following:
"We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that ...
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Did Ibsen originate this statement?
In an article I am writing, I am using a quotation from the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, who wrote in what is effectively Danish:
"Ak ja, retten, retten; hvad hjælper det, at du har retten, ...
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Hierocles and Pythagorean Library
In Pythagorean Library, a complete collection of the surviving fragments from the Pythagoreans, the initials fragments are those that belong to Hierocles, and in several of them, between parentheses — ...
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Sources of Pythagoras' quotes
I have learned that there are many quotes attributed to Pythagoras. I am concerned with what the sources are and how reliable they are. I'll appreciate help.
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