Monday, May 12, 2025
Samuel Johnson on Courage
"Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
Boswell: LifeSaturday, May 10, 2025
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Shakespeare's festive comedy; a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom by Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi)
https://archive.org/details/shakespearesfest00barb
Celebrating the Easter Season with Shakespeare’s “Festive Comedy”
Saturday, May 3, 2025
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance
Socrates explicitly attributes to himself a dual nature in Phaedrus (cf., 230a)—one monstrous and the other gentle.
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/3/89#fn010-philosophies-09-00089
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Scientific American described Hugh Everett as "one of the most important scientists of the 20th century."
Sunday, April 27, 2025
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John Coltrane -- death
Biographer Lewis Porter speculated that the cause of Coltrane's illness was hepatitis, although he also attributed the disease to Coltrane's heroin use at a previous period in his life.[79] Frederick J. Spencer wrote that Coltrane's death could be attributed to his needle use "or the bottle, or both."[80] He stated that "[t]he needles he used to inject the drugs may have had everything to do with" Coltrane's liver disease: "If any needle was contaminated with the appropriate hepatitis virus, it may have caused a chronic infection leading to cirrhosis or cancer."[80] He noted that despite Coltrane's "spiritual awakening" in 1957, "[b]y then, he may have had chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis... Unless he developed a primary focus elsewhere in later life and that spread to his liver, the seeds of John Coltrane's cancer were sown in his days of addiction."[81]
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Olympiodorus on Alcibiades
He especially enjoyed both the comic poet Aristophanes and Sophron, from
whom he had some help in the representation of the characters of his dialogues.
He reportedly enjoyed them so much that when he died, [the works of]
Aristophanes and Sophron were even found on his couch. And
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pbdhLfnOQLpm45hfCe3q9e2_Tshp2uYR/view
Athenaeus 505B Plato wrote the dialogues in a mimetic manner
“ αἴτιος ἐγένετο τοῖς περὶ Κλέαρχον τῆς ἀπωλείας τῆς ὑπὸ Τισσαφέρνου γενομένης, καὶ οἷός τις ἦν τὸν τρόπον, ὡς χαλεπός, ὡς ἀσελγής, [p. 266] διηγησάμενος φαίνεται. ὁ δὲ καλὸς Πλάτων μονονουχὶ εἰπών ' οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἔτυμος λόγος οὗτος ' ἐγκώμια αὐτοῦ διεξέρχεται, ὁ τοὺς ἄλλους ἁπαξαπλῶς κακολογήσας, ἐν μὲν τῇ Πολιτείᾳ Ὅμηρον ἐκβάλλων καὶ τὴν μιμητικὴν ποίησιν, αὐτὸς δὲ τοὺς διαλόγους μιμητικῶς γράψας, ὧν τῆς ἰδέας οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς εὑρετής ἐστιν. πρὸ γὰρ αὐτοῦ τοῦθ᾽ εὗρε τὸ εἶδος τῶν λόγων ὁ Τήιος Ἀλεξαμενός,4 ὡς “ Νικίας ὁ Νικαεὺς ἱστορεῖ καὶ Σωτίων. Ἀριστοτέλης δ᾽ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ποιητῶν οὕτως γράφει οὐκοῦν οὐδὲ ἐμμέτρους ὄντας τοὺς καλουμένους Σώφρονος μίμους μὴ φῶμεν εἶναι λόγους, ἢ μὴ μιμήσεις τοὺς Ἀλεξαμενοῦ τοῦ Τηίου τοὺς πρώτους γραφέντας τῶν Σωκρατικῶν λόγους ἄντικρυς φάσκων ὁ πολυμαθέστατος Ἀριστοτέλης πρὸ Πλάτωνος διαλόγους γεγραφέναι τὸν Ἀλεξαμενόν. διαβάλλει δὲ ὁ Πλάτων καὶ Θρασύμαχον τὸν [p. 268] Χαλκηδόνιον σοφιστὴν ὅμοιον εἶναι λέγων τῷ
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0405%3Acasaubonpage%3D505b