Tag: Plato
We’re excited that you’ve joined the conversation! At HMU, we want to continue the great authors’ conversations in a contemporary context, and this blog will help us do that. We look back to Aristotle and the early philosophers who used reason and discourse to gain wisdom and now we endeavor to do the same every day.
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February 3, 2023 Thanks to Chad Greene, a 2023 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. The tradition of utopias in imaginative literature – whether in a dialogue by Plato, a comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, or a movie by Ryan Coogler – is an attempt to answer some of the most essential …
June 9, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon for today’s post. In the Syntopicon (Astronomy and Cosmology chapter), Mortimer Adler notes that “Man has used astronomy to measure not only the passage of time or the course of a voyage, but also his position in the world, his power of knowing, his relation to God. When …
October 14, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “So come out of your cave walking on your hands/ And see the world hanging upside down/ You can understand dependence when you know the maker’s land” – Mumford and Sons, “The Cave” “Without pride or delusion,/ the fault of attachment overcome,/ intent …
