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3. Plato’s Forms and the Truth, Part 1

A note of caution: the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BCE) wrote dialogues not treatises. These dialogues show the life of the philosophical mind at work: questioning, arguing, speculating, imagining, wondering, struggling, and understanding. They do not show finished results… Read more ›

Nov 19, 2012 3 Comments
Dwight Goodyear
Metaphysics, The Soul, Truth
Becoming, Being, Cratylus, knowledge, opinion, Plato. Forms, Timaeus, truth

2. What is Philosophy?

Philosophy is not easy to define. However, it is clear that philosophy can be differentiated from other disciplines by (1) the type of questions it asks; (2) by the way it answers them; and (3) its purpose. This brief overview… Read more ›

Nov 18, 2012
Dwight Goodyear
Education, Truth
arguments, imagination, Philosophy, wisdom

1. Death-in-Life

I suspect that anyone who writes on the subject of death has a moment when he or she wonders whether it is better to agree with the Zen monk Toko who, in his dying moment, tells us in a death… Read more ›

Nov 17, 2012 1 Comment
Dwight Goodyear
Death, Metaphysics
death, Death-in-life, Hegel, Heraclitus, Japanese death poems, Krishnamurti, life, metaphysics, Samurai, Socrates, Toko, Yoel Hoffman, Zen
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