Down to the Piraeus

I love languages. A string of symbols and a group of rules coming together to convey meaning, is utterly fascinating. So I suppose I'm i...

1)People are generally lazy 2)Some people are not lazy and are creative 3)People that are not lazy are productive 4)Those that are productiv...

I picked this argument up somewhere in one of Eric Olin Wright 's essays online: 1)Socialists and communists wish to end poverty and cla...

Any one notice that an ad hominem argument often supports the conclusion of the argument before it, as well as ignore it. "Your a terri...

Thanks for the comment Jon David, I was thinking a different approach: -The true ideals of Christianity are embodied in the free egalitarian...

"They will tell us we are un-American. But when conservative fundamentalists tell you that America is a Christian nation, remember what...

We read Plato's Dymposium in art and philosophy. Diotima (Socrates' 'teacher in the art of love') gives a sort of poetic ar...