One of the oldest and most exhausted questions in the history of philosophy is why Plato found it necessary and expedient to deport the poets from his perfect society in The Republic. It’s a question many have hypothesized about although, perhaps, unsatisfactorily. One of the 20th century’s great classicists, Eric A. Havelock, considered the expulsion of the poets in his … [Read more...] about Questioning Doubt and the Expulsion of the Poets
Good and Evil
The Wager: Revisited
Blaise Pascal, perhaps most renowned for a mathematical concept called Pascal’s Triangle, also wrote a short essay on a very serious topic: does God exist? In order to solve this eternal question, he devised an intellectual formula--a schema--to find an answer to this large question. This schema is an intellectual outline to consider the possible answers to that question and … [Read more...] about The Wager: Revisited