... they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. This is what happened in the early Church. They merged Plato's teaching about man having an immortal soul with Christian doctrine. Augustine imported the fable of unending infernal torment of unbelievers from his Manichaean past. Paul said, 1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labour and...

... you tossed a few things around you may see that it's more than just 20th century style fascism. It's more basic than that. Time to dust off one's copy of the Republic by Aristotle and read the warnings there and by Plato. The King is dead, long live the King. <smile> But the world and ideas are much broader and larger than just the West. There's a whole world out there, and 6 billion people live on it. Most know nothing about the...

...-cf9c6a2af302@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... Does anyone know of a good source from which one can obtain a modern interpretation of some of the philosophers of the distant ages, such as Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Hume and others ? The truth about everything, by Mathew Stewart Everything guide to understanding philosophy, by Kenneth Shouler Philosophy for dummies, by Tom Morris Everything philosophy book, by James Mannion The ...

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... a universal sense of number. A rudimentary number sense is wired into our brains at birth. Experiments show that chimps, like us, use symbols to denote numbers. In the same mathematical reasoning that inspired Plato with visions of eternal ideals, we find evidence for a provocative theory of evolutionary change. The evolution of language is the surest indication of a new kind of strictly internal brain activity, one neither stimulated ...

... These Hermetic books, most of them in the form of dialogues, described the process of divine interaction with the material world and a program for human enlightenment that strikingly paralleled some of the formulations of Plato and his followers, of Hebrew mystics, and to a certain extent of Christianity.  The dialogues spoke of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian wisdom, and Egyptian ways of attracting the powers of God and the ...

...). These Hermetic books, most of them in the form of dialogues, described the process of divine interaction with the material world and a program for human enlightenment that strikingly paralleled some of the formulations of Plato and his followers, of Hebrew mystics, and to a certain extent of Christianity. The dialogues spoke of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian wisdom, and Egyptian ways of attracting the powers of God and the spirits to ...

... can obtain a modern interpretation of some of the philosophers of the distant ages, such as Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Hume and others? Thanks, mea505 Thats a hard question really, one said in a way that it seems ....edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/INTRO_TEXT/CONTENTS.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_philosophers http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html http://www.iep.utm.edu/

On Sep 16, 3:08 am, Mea505 <mea...@cox.net> wrote: Does anyone know of a good source from which one can obtain a modern interpretation of some of the philosophers of the distant ages, such as Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Hume and others? Thanks, mea505 One of the best sources? You. The alternative is getting interpretations of interpretations. Similar mindset to the politicaly or religiously oriented. BOfL

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:08:58 -0700 (PDT), Mea505 <mea505@cox.net> wrote: Does anyone know of a good source from which one can obtain a modern interpretation of some of the philosophers of the distant ages, such as Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Hume and others? Thanks, mea505 Try the 'neurophilosophers', such as 'Churchland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurophilosophy