Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’

The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David

Phaedo Arguments for Immortality of the Soul

Posted: Saturday, January 17th, 2009 comments: 1
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Evaluate the Arguments for Immortality of the Soul

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Challenges for Policymakers and Decision Makers for Urban UK Schools

Challenges for UK School Decision Makers

Posted: Monday, December 22nd, 2008 comments: 3
Posted in Current, Featured, World

UK Urban School face new realities.

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Plato and Aristotle enjoyed a healthy debate

Plato versus Aristotle: Theory of Forms and Causes

Posted: Thursday, December 18th, 2008 comments: 4
Posted in Books, History, Lifestyle

Plato imagined that there existed an ideal or perfect world beyond our own physical earth.

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How similar were Machiavelli and Augustus ?

Machiavelli and Augustus Ruling Philosophy

Posted: Sunday, June 1st, 2008 comments: 0
Posted in Books, History, Politics

Following up to the post about Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, here is another post about Roman history.  This time from Elizabeth Rathgeber, who also wrote the post What to do about Sudan?.

I believe that Augustus and Niccoló Machiavelli would certainly agree much more so than disagree on how to be an effective ruler. The young Augustus [...]

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