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Alexander the Humbled

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Think back to Ancient India as described by the Greek philosophers Megasthenes and Arrian, summarized by Kevin Carmody on his site.
The fact that these interchanges between Greece and India have been recorded and passed down through history is incredible — even more incredible that the Greek writings show deference to the wisdom of a foreign culture! [...]

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Hinduism, Aristotle, and the Dilemma of the Train

Saturday, October 11, 2008

As we were returning from an ancient political philosophy lecture on Plato’s pupil Aristotle, my roommate Palak and I discussed the theory of multiple goods and its engine of phronesis — together, Aristotle’s refutation of Plato’s argument that there exists one universal good.
After a small amount of time, I said, “Let us assume the existence [...]

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