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Yet what happened was shown to be to a large extent in the hands of what the Greeks called ‘fate’ or ‘the gods’. It was the Greeks’ poetic way of saying that things often work out randomly, according to dynamics that simply don’t reflect the merits of the individuals concerned. The great Greek tragedians – Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles – recou
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Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (Veritas Book 23)
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When Will Helen DeWitt Be Recognized As One of the Great American Novelists?
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Si, comme nous l'avons dit, tous les cours de philosophie comportaient, depuis au moins le début du Ier siècle, une partie essentielle qui était l'explication de texte, ils pouvaient aussi s'achever par un moment de libre discussion entre les auditeurs et le philosophe.
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Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology (Veritas Book 20)
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Terence McKenna on translating the Hermetic corpus over Plato:
... See moreNear the start of the Renaissance, Jemistus Pletho brought books to the Florentine council for translation. Medici said, “Plato can wait, I’m getting old, do the Hermetic Corpus first, it’s much more important, we’ll do Plato later.” A few years later, 1493, Cosmo Medici died and never s