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 | | WHAT THE ANCIENTS DID FOR US THE GREEKS 09:32PART 2 Tags: history Category: Science & Technology Views: 7 Comments: 0 Added: Sep 9, 08 By: thedocumentarychannel  | |  |  | | Driving 05:47Megalis drives and spews about junk Tags: driving talk cars greeks Category: Comedy Views: 1,857 Comments: 8 Added: Jan 28, 07 By: Megalis  | |  |  | | Hellenic navy force 05:42defentig our aegian sea and air Tags: greece greek greeks aegian sea navy force army military Category: Entertainment Views: 36 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 6, 08 By: nearos | |  |  | | macedonia is greece 02:24this is the truth about macedonia Tags: greece alexanter the great greeks spartans macedonia macedonians skopie albania 300 Category: Entertainment Views: 31 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 2, 08 By: nearos | |  |  | | Hellenic special forces command 06:03the new 300 greek army Tags: 300 spartans greece greeks revolusion special army freedom Category: Entertainment Views: 27 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 2, 08 By: nearos | |  |  | | greek revolusion 04:0525 of march 1821 starts the greek revolusion against the turks.this is the uniforms Tags: greece greeks 300 spartans albania turkie serbia italy cyprus Category: Entertainment Views: 65 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 2, 08 By: nearos | |  |  | | Socrates on the Soul Second Edition) 06:49Socrates is widely considered to be the father of western thought, for more than anyone else Socrates made the people aware and thus ashamed of their own ignorance. Socrates stands for the divine, his more...death became an immortal symbol for the evil of ignorance, the greatest evil of them all.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance".
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates - His Death http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/socrates-his-trial/
Plato - The Cave (video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/
What is enlightenment? (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/what-is-enlightenment-video/
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Book List - Feed your Mind http://metadave.wordpress.com/reading-list-feed-your-mind/
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/ less Tags: aristotle athen death greeks history ignorance metaphysics perception plato skeptikosexaminer socrates soul philosophy Category: People Views: 72 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 25, 08 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Stoic Philosophy Epictetus Enchiridion 22 10:14Epictetus was a Roman slave of Greek descent, he was a follower of Ceno and the stoic way of thought. Rather than seeking for “nothingness”, like in Buddhism and related schools of thought, Stoic philosophy more...is about gaining control over oneself and the understanding that some things are simply not in our control.
The Enchiridion is a good introduction to the stoic way of thought.
"What then is the fruit of these opinions? It is that which ought to he the most noble and the most becoming to those who are really educated, release from perturbation, release from fear, freedom. For in these matters we must not believe the many, who say that free persons only ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers, who say that the educated only are free." -- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135a.d.)
Epictetus Enchiridion http://www.geocities.com/khs10uk/enchiridion.htm
Epictetus - The Discourses http://philosophy.eserver.org/epictetus-discourses.txt
Plato - The Cave (Second Edition) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Domesticated to be a good Sheep -Part I. http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/domesticated-to-be-a-good-sheep-part-i/ less Tags: ceno enlightenment greeks logic metaphisics philosophy roman schoolofthought skeptikosexaminer Category: People Views: 43 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 22, 08 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Stoic Philosophy Epictetus Enchiridion12 10:36Epictetus was a Roman slave of Greek descent, he was a follower of Ceno and the stoic way of thought. Rather than seeking for “nothingness”, like in Buddhism and related schools of thought, Stoic philosophy more...is about gaining control over oneself and the understanding that some things are simply not in our control.
The Enchiridion is a good introduction to the stoic way of thought.
"What then is the fruit of these opinions? It is that which ought to he the most noble and the most becoming to those who are really educated, release from perturbation, release from fear, freedom. For in these matters we must not believe the many, who say that free persons only ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers, who say that the educated only are free." -- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135a.d.)
Epictetus Enchiridion http://www.geocities.com/khs10uk/enchiridion.htm
Epictetus - The Discourses http://philosophy.eserver.org/epictetus-discourses.txt
Plato - The Cave (Second Edition) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Domesticated to be a good Sheep -Part I. http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/domesticated-to-be-a-good-sheep-part-i/ less Tags: ceno enlightenment greeks logic metaphisics philosophy roman schoolofthought skeptikosexaminer Category: People Views: 35 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 22, 08 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | enema and family holiday letters 03:17tom megalis talks about receiving a holiday enema and a family holiday letter. Guess which one repulsed him more? Tags: enema holiday christmasletters greeks klisma Category: Entertainment Views: 805 Comments: 5 Added: Dec 25, 07 By: Megalis  | |  |  | | Differences Between Macedonians And Greeks 02:51Greeks Were Proven wrong when they did a DNA test in France and proved Greeks had no Connection with Alexander The Great Macedonian Or the Ancient Macedonians. Truth Hurts Doesn't it Greeks (Ethiopians) more...Your nothing but Ethiopians who are full of lies and Propaganda.
Long Live Macedonia.. Fuck the Greeks! less Tags: greeks are ethiopians dna macedonia makedonia makedonija mkd makedonci alexander the great macedonian Category: News Views: 162 Comments: 0 Added: Oct 1, 07 By: UltraMacedonian | |  |  | | Preston Makedonia v Oakliegh Turkije 00:29Macedonians won against Oakliegh (confused turks) and are giving it to the Turk (Greeks)... Fuck off Turks! Tags: preston macedonia makedonija makedonia mkd vs oakliegh turkije turks athenians greeks greece Category: Sports Views: 80 Comments: 0 Added: Oct 1, 07 By: UltraMacedonian | |  |  | | Aristotle on Justice 04:26A small part of "Nicomachean Ethics" on the subject of justice. It's sad that many people today are so ignorant that they believe themselves to be so smart and educated that they don't need more...to listen to a guy who already died more than 2000 years ago!
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.
Even thought I do not agree in all areas with Aristotle, he was definitely one of the greatest metaphysical minds the world has seen.
"This is why we do not allow a man to rule, but rational principle, because a man behaves thus in his own interests and becomes a tyrant. The magistrate on the other hand is the guardian of justice, and, if of justice, then of equality also." -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (more)
Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/
The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
Plato on Political Systems (Videos) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/
Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/ less Tags: education enlightenment law metaphysics nicomachean ethics old greeks philosophy politics Category: People Views: 135 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 13, 07 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Plato Tyranny 08:28-- Political Systems 3/3 Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He more...was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.
Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/
The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/ less Tags: democracy domination education greeks mind old oligarchy logic philosophy plato politics republic skeptikosexaminer socrates tyranny Category: People Views: 59 Comments: 1 Added: Jul 4, 07 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Plato Oligarchy 07:15-- Political Systems 2/3 Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He more...was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.
Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/
The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/ less Tags: democracy domination education greeks mind old oligarchy logic philosophy plato politics republic skeptikosexaminer socrates tyranny Category: People Views: 50 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 4, 07 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Socrates His Death 07:05Intro to the trial of Socrates, one of the most tragic events in history. Ignorance is truly the greatest evil. “A friend, in consulting the Oracle at Delphi, asked was any man wiser than Socrates. The more...Oracle replied that there were not!!! Upon being told of this answer Socrates maintained that this implied that he, alone, had this claim to wisdom - that he fully recognised his own ignorance.
From that time he sought out people who had a reputation for wisdom and, in every case, was able to reveal that their reputations were not justified. Socrates regarded this behaviour as a service to God and decided that he should continue to make efforts to improve people by persuading and reminding them of their own ignorance.
What we now call the “Socratic method” of philosophical inquiry involved questioning people on the positions they asserted and working them through further questions into seemingly inevitable contradictions, thus proving to them that their original assertion had fatal inconsistencies. Socrates refers to this “Socratic method” as elenchus. The Socratic method gave rise to dialectic, the idea that truth needs to be approached by modifying one’s position through questionings and exposures to contrary ideas.
Socrates did not seek to involve himself in the political life of Athens as he felt that there would inevitably be compromises of principle that he was not prepared to make. As a prominent citizen he was called upon to fulfil minor political roles where his sense of principle had caused him to place himself in some personal danger by holding out alone against the unconstitutional condemnation of certain generals. He later refused to participate in the arrest of an innocent man that had been ordered by a corrupt body of “Thirty Tyrants” who ruled Athens in the wake of her defeat by Sparta. This refusal might have cost Socrates his life but for the overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants and a restoration of democracy.
This restored democracy was however markedly traditionalist and reactionary in its religious views - this led it to see Socrates, as a teacher of novel ideas of morality and justice, with some disfavour. Socrates had also alienated many powerful men by acting as a relentlessly questioning Gadfly causing them to face their personal ignorance or own to shortfalls in office.
In 399 B.C. Socrates was accused of “impiety” and of “neglect of the Gods whom the city worships and the practise of religious novelties” and of the “corruption of the young”.”
The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
Plato - The Cave (video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/plato-the-cave/
Plato on Political Systems (Videos) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/
Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/ less Tags: aristotle athen education greeks history ignorance metaphysics philosophy plato socrates trial Category: People Views: 82 Comments: 0 Added: Jun 2, 07 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | racial profiling 04:40Megalis gets pulled over by a cop and thinks there may be a little racial profiling going on. Tags: racial profiling cops greeks driving Category: Comedy Views: 1,695 Comments: 36 Added: Mar 31, 07 By: Megalis  | |  |  | | New Years Drinking 05:07Megalis tells us his worst New Years Eve drinking story. Tags: drinking greeks newyears cops car Category: Comedy Views: 1,028 Comments: 6 Added: Jan 28, 07 By: Megalis  | |  |  | | Plato The change to tyrantSE 10:08Plato’s description of the change from champion of the people to tyrant, from accepted rule to tyranny, is no less accurate today than it was over 2000 years ago when Plato first wrote it. Plato was the more...greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained.
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the "truths" of the ideologist have constantly to be re-adjusted whenever they come in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of opinion and the ideologist, mere shadows of reality changing with the light.
The Republic by Plato Book VIII
Persons of the Dialogue:
Plato Socrates Glaucon
Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/ less Tags: aristotle athen bush death greeks history ignorance jews metaphysics multuculturalism new world order perception plato republic socrates tyranny Category: People Views: 58 Comments: 0 Added: Mar 29, 08 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Plato The Cave Second Edition) 10:04The Republic, Book XII, Chapter I Plato's example of the cave was probably the first inquiry ever into the possible effects of television, the illusion of reality, on the minds of man. Plato among the Greeks more...was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truths” of the ideologist have constantly to be re-adjusted whenever they come in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of opinion and the ideologist, mere shadows of reality changing with the light.
Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/
The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
Plato on Political Systems (Videos) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/plato-on-politic-systems-videos/
Veritax Vox Liberabit http://metadave.wordpress.com/ less Tags: domination education greeks logic media mind old philosophy plato politics psychology republic skeptikosexaminer socrates mind control brainwashing matrix Category: People Views: 204 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 21, 08 By: SkeptikosExaminer | |  |  | | Plato Democracy direct democracy is was Plato is talking about) 05:23-- Political Systems 1/3 Plato among the Greeks was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth. He more...was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.
Plato Republic as free eBook: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/
The trial and death of Socrates (text) http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Slavery - You think that you are free? http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/slavery/
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/preview-of-the-natural-politic-order/
Socrates on what prompts the change from champion of the people to tyrant http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
Socrates on Perception and the Imprisonment of the Soul (Video) http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
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