The Age of Reason Thomas Paine Athenian Stranger: Tell me, strangers, is a God or some man supposed to be the author of your Laws? Cleinias: A God, stranger; in very truth a God. -Plato, Laws The primary object in writing this controversial little work, was to question the traditional understanding of God and...
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A Reading – Arthur Schopenhauer Imagine this race transported to a Utopia where everything grows of its own accord and turkeys fly around ready-roasted, where lovers find one another without any delay and keep one another without any difficulty: in such a place some men would die of boredom or hang themselves, some would...
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One of the things that Plato and Aristotle both agreed on is the necessity for the average citizen to be educated. To Aristotle, the leisure time that is acquired by the citizen should be spent to some degree involved with things intellectual and creative, rather than with petty entertainment. This was also the understanding...
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