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Showing posts with label Plato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plato. Show all posts
Monday, 16 September 2024

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: And the Deception of Perception

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By Keith Tidman   I t is a tribute to the timelessness of Plato’s ideas that his philosophical stories still echo powerfully in the contempo...
Monday, 28 August 2023

A Word to the Wise

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Philosophy is a sailboat that deftly catches the fair breeze… By Andrew Porter W e live in a time in which most people, were you to ask them...
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Monday, 12 June 2023

The Euthyphro Dilemma: What Makes Something Moral?

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The sixteenth-century nun and mystic, Saint Teresa. In her autobiography, she wrote that she  ‘ was very fond of St. Augustine …  for he was...
Monday, 15 May 2023

‘Game Theory’: Strategic Thinking for Optimal Solutions

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Cortes began his campaign to conquer the Aztec Empire by having all but one of his ships scuttled, which meant that he and his men would eit...
Monday, 13 June 2022

The Diamond–Water Paradox

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All that glitters is not gold! Or at least, is not worth as much as gold. Here, richly interwoven cubic crystals of light metallic golden py...
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Monday, 8 February 2021

Will Democracy Survive?

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Cleisthenes, the Father of Democracy, Invented a Form of Government That Has Endured for 2,500 Years Posted by Keith Tidman H ow well is dem...
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Monday, 14 December 2020

Persuasion v. Manipulation in the Pandemic

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Posted by Keith Tidman P ersuasion and manipulation to steer public behaviour are more than just special cases of each other. Manipulation, ...
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Monday, 13 April 2020

When the Punishment Does Not Fit the Crime

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by Anonymous Do many capitalist societies today impose relatively harsher punishments for crimes committed by individuals of low socioe...
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Monday, 9 March 2020

Does Power Corrupt?

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Mandell Creighton leading his group, ‘The Quadrilateral’, at Oxford University in 1865. (As seen in Louise Creighton’s book, The Life and ...
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