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Online resources for Plato CONTENTS: Euthyphro Glad to reward anyone who is willing to listen They will listen if they think you show them well To be laughed at does not matter Apology John M. Cooper’s introduction Socrates’ introduction (17a – 18a) Additional charges (18a – 19a) Prejudice, sophistry, and the oracle (19a – 21a) […]
Update: I have attached the schedule for anyone still thinking about joining the reading group–please do! The first call is on Monday. Follow the link in the original post for more details. Conference Call Schedule 2011 Monday, April 11 – Intro. call Monday, May 2 – Book 1 Monday, June 6 – Book 2 Monday, […]
My earlier posts on Euthyphro provide links to the text and commentary. They also cover some of the drama, arguments and general online resources on Plato. This post covers some final thoughts on Euthyphro. All quotes from the dialogue in this post are from the translation by G.M.A. Grube. Since the Euthyphro ends in an […]
Several versions of Euthyphro are available online, including translations by Benjamin Jowett and Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack. LibriVox has an audio version of the dialogue. Online guides to the dialogue can be found by at the Wikipedia summary. My first post on Euthyphro can be found here and my online resources post for Plato can is located […]
From the introduction of Euthyphro in Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper: The scene is the agora or central marketplace of Athens, before the offices of the magistrate who registers and makes preliminary inquiries into charges brought under the laws protecting the city from the gods’ displeasure. There Socrates meets Euthyphro—Socrates is on […]
I throw this out for anyone that was interested in Bloodlands since this book focuses on some of the same area but expands the history. Because of the price, I probably won’t be buying it any time soon but I’ll definitely look for this in nearby libraries. From the description at the Oxford University Press: […]
A reading of the poem that Elizabeth Taylor asked Colin Farrell to read at her funeral…but read by Richard Burton, appropriately enough. The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo (Maidens’ song from St. Winefred’s Well) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) THE LEADEN ECHO How to keep–is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, […]
From Wired.com: The finished Strahov library panorama, released Tuesday on Martin’s website, is a zoomable, high-resolution peek inside one of Prague’s most beautiful halls, a repository of rare books that is usually off-limits to tourists (a few of whom can be seen standing behind the velvet rope at the room’s normal viewing station). Martin’s panorama […]
“War and Sports” Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Speaker: THOMAS SCANLON 2:00 PM ET/ 11:00 AM PT (90 minute lecture and Q&A) Both sport and battle were “contests” for the Greeks, agones, in their terms. We will here look at the fascinating and puzzling legend(s) of Pheidippides (or whatever his name was), ancient long-distance messenger runners […]
I’m a little overwhelmed at what is available online to help in reading and understanding Plato’s dialogues. Many sites or posts I found focus on one or two of the dialogues so I will link them when I get to that particular work. If you know of any general resources, let me know in the […]
One of my goals has been to read Plato. And understand, at least partially, what I’m reading. If nothing else, it should prove entertaining (even if only in a painful manner) for others who took philosophy courses. I thought I would go in the order of John M. Cooper’s compilation (shown above—a gift from my […]
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Basic Books, Hardcover, 544 pages ISBN-10: 9780465002399 / ISBN-13: 978-0465002399 Each of the dead became a number. Between them, the Nazi and Stalinist regimes murdered more than fourteen million people in the bloodlands. The killing began with a political famine that Stalin directed at Soviet Ukraine, which […]
More quotes from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder. Chapter 10 (“Ethnic Cleansings”) and Chapter 11 (“Stalinist Anti-Semitism”) look at Stalin’s actions post-World War II and how they impacted the “bloodlands.” With the relocations of ethnic populations, Stalin moved millions of people in order to create the client states he wanted. At […]
More quotes from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder. Chapter 9 (“Resistance and Incineration”) looks at Jewish resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April/May 1943), the destruction of that ghetto and the construction of a concentration camp on the same spot, the Warsaw Uprising (August/September 1944), and the destruction of Warsaw just before […]
More quotes from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder. Chapter 8 (“The Nazi Death Factories”) focuses on the evolution and operation of the death factories run by the German regime. While some facilities exploited those Jews healthy enough to work, others were solely intended to kill. As Snyder shrewdly put it, “Belźec […]
Source (click for larger view) A friend emailed me the link to this cartoon…thought someone out there might like it. (Be sure to move the mouse over the panels, too.)
NOTE: This entry no longer updated. See my Works Covered page for a list of all books reviewed on this blog. Since I spend a lot of time with nonfiction and initially I did not make any comments on these books I wanted to have one page that provided an easy round-up for me to […]
More quotes from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder. Chapter 6 (“Final Solution”) and Chapter 7 (“Holocaust and Revenge”) continue the look at the evolution of the “Jewish problem” and confrontations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, particularly in Belarus (where half the pre-war population had been killed or moved by […]
Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo (real name – Ettore Schmitz) Translation by William Weaver Sorrow and love—life, in other words—cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt. The fictional autobiography and journal of Zeno Cosini proves to be full of comic contradictions, highlighting his own unreliability. Yet Zeno can be observant and perceptive, although not […]