Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Edward Craig

Lady Philosophy & Boethius

21 Jan 2022 1 67
In this Renaissance painting Boethius (C.AD 480-525) listens to the words of the Lady Philosophy. The Consolation of Philosophy is his most famous book, and consolation was that he needed as he awaited execution. But philosophy has had many purposes besides this one. In 523 Boethius fell from power. After a period of imprisonment in Pavia for what was deemed a treasonable offence, he was executed in 524. www.gutenberg.org/files/14328/14328-h/14328-h.htm plato.stanford.edu/entries/boethius
27 Jan 2022 1 60
PROF. DARWIN This is the ape of form Love's Labor Lost, act 5, scene 2. Some four or five descents since. All's Well that Ends Well, act 3, sc.7
27 Jan 2022 1 60
. . . We know that they (philosophers) were writing from the heart as well as from the head. Alongside their enormous merits they may have their faults, to be sure: but unsuspected ignorance, prejudice, over-confidence, obscurity -- just to get the list started. But as I hope to have indicated, philosophy is as wide as lie, and in its huge literature are exemplified mot intellectual vices as well as most intellectual virtues. Wishing it were otherwise would be close to wishing that human beings didn’t have minds. ~ Page 118
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Progress through conflict: the Storming of the Bastille. Hegel was 19 when the French Revolution occurred -- it made an impression Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin), German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.

David Hume

22 Jan 2022 2 2 53
Hume was smarter than he looked: 'His face is by no means an index of his ingenuity of his mind, especially of his delicacy and vivacity wrote one visitor.