Symposium : Plato’s dialogue in which banquet guests present their ideas on love.
... Dionysus'. He was bald, and fat with thick lips and a squat nose, and had the legs of a human and when intoxicated was said to possess special knowledge and the powers of prophesy. Plato, Symposium Aristotle (384-322 BC), was a greek philosopher, a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, biology and... was a student of Socrates and has written numerous Socratic dialogues which are a proof of his brilliance as a writer and a philosopher. Some of them are: Euthypro, Apology, Phaedo, Crito, Meno, Symposium, Republic. 10. Plutarch (46-127 AD), Mestrius Plutarchus, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family. His literary works consist... an Athenian, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times (Anabasis, Hellenica, etc.), the sayings of Socrates (Memorabilia, Symposium, Apology, etc.), and the life of Greece (on Horsemanship, Hunting with Dogs, etc.). On being invited by Cyrus the younger, to fight against his elder brother, the emperor of Persia, Xenophon ...
... quack scientist and rhetorician with neither religion nor morals. No doubt he chose Socrates simply as a perfect subject for caricature, and meant him no harm (the two men are quite friendly in the Symposium); but the play probably had a damaging effect. 4 Socrates goes whirling round: He appears suspended in a basket, because his mind works better in the upper air. 5 ... 23 Potidaea in Chalcidice revolted from Athens in 432 and was reduced two years later. In the preliminary fighting Socrates saved the life of Alcibiades, as the latter relates in the Symposium (220 D). 24 Amphipolis: An Athenian colony at the mouth of the Strymon (Struma). The battle to which Socrates refers took place outside the walls in 422. 25 Delium ...
... scientist and ; rhetorician with neither religion nor morals. No doubt he chose Socrates simply as a perfect subject for caricature, and meant him no harm (the two men are quite friendly in the Symposium); but the play probably had a damaging effect. Socrates goes whirling round: He appears suspended in a basket, because his mind works better in the upper air. Gorgias of... Potidaea in Chalcidice revolted from Athens in 432 and was reduced two years later. In the preliminary fighting Socrates saved the life of Alcibiades, as the latter relates in the Symposium (220 D). Amphipolis: An Athenian colony at the mouth of the Strymon (Struma). The battle to which Socrates refers took place outside the walls in 422. Delium in Boeotia ...
... which the other eminent intellectuals lack. Sri Aurobindo sees in him a subtle sight such as cannot be traced in his encyclopaedic contemporary Aristotle. Sri Aurobindo read the Republic and the Symposium in the original when he was at Cambridge, he also went on to imitate the Platonic dialogue-form in a remarkable work, fairly long yet unfinished, of his late teens, The Harmony of Virtue; and a ...
... present with the will to advance towards a more perfect realisation. October 1964 ( Students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education were invited to participate in a local symposium on "1965—International Cooperation Year". ) I have no objections to World Union, yourself and X joining the demonstration. I simply refused the participation of our students, because I do not believe ...
... an ontologically uncommitted logic it ceases, on this theory, to be philosophy and becomes science. Ayer, however, does not maintain this view consistently. In his contribution to the Symposium "What can Logic do for Philosophy?" he suggests that in the case of the Sense-datum theory we do leave the field of logic and gain an insight into the nature of 'facts'. He suggests that in ...
... and physiological processes manages by their activity on the nerves and brain of a Shakespeare or a Plato to produce or could be perhaps the dynamic occasion for the production of a Hamlet or a Symposium or a Republic ; but we fail to discover or appreciate how such material movements could have composed or necessitated the composition of these highest points of thought and literature … These formulae ...
... any of the other epic poets Sri Aurobindo 1 Part of this essay is taken up into 'The Poet of Integralism', first published in The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, A Commemorative Symposium, edited by Haridas Chaudhuri and Frederic Spiegelberg (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1960) and afterwards included with some enlargement in the author's The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo ...
... J., tells us that "Paul puts the language of the Bible into words that can be understood by the Epicureans and Stoics to whom he is speaking" [L'Esprit de Yahwe dans L'Ancien Testament in the symposium L'Homme devant Dieu, 1964, I, p. 28.). 6. The Divine Milieu, p. 106. 7. Ibid., p. 105. 8. Ibid.. Page 17 us once again as the Pantocrator who filled the ...
... (390s-350s BC) Complete Works, ed. J. Cooper, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996. ( The Dialogues of most direct relevance are the Euthydemus, Protagoras, Meno, Gorgias, Symposium, Republic, Theaetetus and Laws). 10. Emile (1762), (or On Education), trans. A. Bloom, New York: Basic Books, 1979. (Rousseau's principal work on education). 11.Bailin, S. (1988) ' ...
... But he seems to be a great figure. He has many admirers and followers in South India. NIRODBARAN: You must have seen in yesterday's Hindu the review of an annual of English literature. It is a symposium of many writers of the British Empire. From India four names have been chosen—one Kashi Prasad Ghose, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and yourself . Do you know this Kashi Prasad Ghose? SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... but this time they were not on politics, but on philosophy and poetry and so on. I was acclaimed a great philosopher. I had never studied any philosophy, though I had read Plato's Republic and Symposium. Of course, if you can call them philosophy, I had read the Gita and the Upanishads. However, after a year, the Mother returned to France - " "But why?" "Because the First World War had broken ...
... (1967); Integral Yoga: The Concept of Harmonious and Creative Living (1970) Chaudhuri, Haridas & Frederick Spiegelberg (Eds.). The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: A Commemorative Symposium ( 1960) Page 822 Chintamani, C. Y. Indian Politics since the Mutiny (1937) Corte, Nicolas: Teilhard de Chardin: His Life and Spirit (1 960); translated by Martin Jarrett-Kerr ...
... 1929, somebody - Perhaps Miss Maitland? - put a series of questions to the Mother as a provocation for a memorable pronouncement, recalling almost Socrates' celebrated rhapsody on Love in Plato's Symposium. Of the Mother's many Aspects, Powers and Personalities, the face of Love was the most significant and nectarean, and it was as the Mother of Love that she manifested a power of 'the The Divine ...
... steps had been taken, and in the right directions. The first colonisers were already at "Forecomers", and "Promesse" was full of life. Work on "Auroson's Home" was started in November. An AIR symposium on Auroville was held at Pondicherry on 28 December 1968, and Auroville was hailed as a living symbol of the hope of humanity - especially the children and youth - for a rich and wholesome future ...
... and physiological processes manages by their activity on the nerves and brain of a Shakespeare or a Plato to produce or could be perhaps the dynamic occasion for the production of a Hamlet or a Symposium or a Republic ; but we fail to discover or appreciate how such material movements could have composed or necessitated the composition of these highest points of thought and literature: the divergence ...
... an attempt to study from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga one of the pivotal topics which serves to bring out parallels as well as differences between modern psychology and yoga. At a symposium on "Consciousness" held in 1977 at the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, one of the speakers observed that there has been in the United States a growing cult of "awareness", even though ...
... reactionary, and explaining injustice away. 17 The animosity against Edward Wilson, especially by American extreme leftists, reached the news desks in February 1978, after he had given a lecture at a symposium in Washington. A group of demonstrators had invaded the podium and “a young woman behind me picked up a pitcher of water and dumped the contents on my head.” The audience had given him a standing ...
... my boyhood I have had a strong affinity with ancient Greece. Even in my school-days 1 delved with intense joy into the Socratic dialogues of Plato - the shorter ones: Crito, Phaedo, Apologia and Symposium. In the B.A. of Bombay University 1 had the pleasure of taking Philosophy Honours with Plato's Republic for special study. When I came to the Ashram, the Mother once told me that in a past life ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Gloria wrote to me: Christmas 1988 AV Dear Huta, The International symposium of "Innovative Applications of Shells and Spatial Forms" in which Piero was invited to present the Matrimandir, was extremely interesting and of high level. I was happy to see Matrimandir between the most daring and astonishing structures in the ...
... at his pleasure. To the Indian mind the gods are friends and helpers. 2 June 1936 Page 529 Lowes Dickinson What would you say on the contrast between Lowes Dickinson's Modern Symposium (1905) and his post-war dialogue, On the Discovery of Good? The pre-war and the post-war Dickinson are indeed a contrast. This appreciation of human life is not without the force of a half truth ...
... Sources of His Philosophy Sri Aurobindo's intellect was influenced by Greek philosophy. Very little. I read more than once Plato's Republic and Symposium, but only extracts from his other writings. It is true that under his impress I rashly started writing at the age of 18 an explanation of the cosmos on the foundation of the principle of Beauty and ...
... connection with Shelley that whenever he writes about Shelley the tone is as if he were dealing with an essential part of himself. The connection is basic because in Shelley's mind Plato of the Symposium and Dante of the Paradiso interfused: he burned with a spiritual idealism of thought, the lips of his love carried a flame-kiss from the fragmentary human heart to the Absolute Sun of Eternity ...
... possible of spiritual realities within the scheme * Part of this essay is taken up into The Poet of Integralism, first published in The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, A Commemorative Symposium edited by Haridas Chaudhuri and Frederic Spiegelberg (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1960) and afterwards included with some enlargement in the author's The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo ...
... ves. A vision similar to Plotinus's is, I believe, behind Platonism, though Plato seems to reduce it more than Plotinus to Page 20 intellectual terms, except perhaps in the Symposium. Plotinus too perhaps loses the wholeness of the vision while putting it into a philosophical system. For the problem of the One and the Many appears to be worrying that system in some way or other: ...
... language which was both profound and precise, literary at the same time that it was expository — a combination of qualities found in a mere handful of philosophers. The author of the Republic and the Symposium Berkeley. Fichte, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Bradley, William James are the ones that strike me at the moment. Then there was the fascination of the actual life aiming to plumb the In-world and penetrate ...
... sections of Milton's Paradise Lost with a few from the opening of Sri Aurobindo's epic, Savitri : * First published in The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. A Commemorative Symposium edited by Haridas Chaudhuri and Frederic Spiegelberg (Geórge Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1960). Page 226 A Legend and a Symbol. Milton apostrophises the ...
... have previously appeared either in Mother India itself or in other periodicals connected with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, except for the very last one which was included in an Aurobindonian symposium from America. Readers have, off and on, expressed their wish about several of them that they should be gathered within convenient covers. What has prompted us to carry out their wish at the ...
... today. " Page 267 Jawaharlal Nehru with daughter and wife, 1931 S ix or seven years ago an American publisher asked me to write an essay on my philosophy of life for a symposium he was preparing. I was attracted to the idea but I hesitated, and the more I thought over it, the more reluctant I grew. Ultimately, I did not write that essay. What was my philosophy of life ...
... following is a list of dialogues written by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Laches, Lysis, Charmides, Hippias Minor, Ion, Protagoras, Meno, Gorgias, Phaedo, Menexenus, Euthydemus, Cratylus, Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, Theaetetus, Critias, Philebus, Timaeus, Laws. Bibliography Cornford, P.M. Plato's Cosmology. London: Kegan Paul, 1937. Crombie, I.M ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: What do you mean by excess? Excess for somebody else. But if the quantity doesn't affect him, it can't be excess for him. DR. MANILAL: I submit, Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: In Plato's Symposium, Socrates, Aristophanes, Agathon and others meet and discuss the nature of love, and drink wine. Everybody gets drunk except Socrates. Even after heavy drinking he keeps on discussing philosophy ...
... tic mechanism of self-transformation and its own maximum rate of, change and each produces its own characteristic type of results. 24. The Life Divine, p. 46. 25.Contributed to the symposium What is Science (Ed. by J. R. Newman). Page 18 The inorganic sector, the largest in spatial extent and in mass, is governed by physical and occasional inorganic chemical interactions ...
... again from the pen of young Aurobindo and picked at random from the same The Harmony of Virtue about which Sri Aurobindo remarked apropos: "I read more than once Plato's Republic and Symposium, but only extracts from his other writings. It is true that under his impress I rashly started writing at the age of 18 an explanation of the cosmos on the foundation of the principle of Beauty and ...
... and physiological processes manages by their activity on the nerves and brain of a Shakespeare or a Plato to produce or could be perhaps the dynamic occasion for the production of a Hamlet or a Symposium or a Republic. But if we examine this kind of explanation, we fail to discover or appreciate how such material movements could have composed or necessitated the composition of these highest points ...
... find their reconciliation in the more comprehensive science of the future. It can be safely affirmed that a true basis of our mental life does not _______________________ ² Commemorative Symposium Page 123 seem to have been grasped by these groping contemporary schools of psychology. It reminds one of the blind men trying to describe the elephant. Even though many years ...
... touched many Indian hearts and set them ablaze. Some people have supposed that Aurobindo studied Greek philosophy while he was in England. This is not true. He read Plato's Republic and Symposium , but he did not study Greek Philosophy. He had heard of Heraclitus while in England, but ¹Ibid pp. 1 - 4. ² Ibid. p. 4. Page 31 read his work after ...
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