by Lucille Turner | Jul 28, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I to IV HERE SLXLM While Socrates was defending his opinions in the great halls of Athens, the city-state was falling apart. Wars were being fought, and people were becoming poor. Perhaps this was the reason for the ultimate condemnation of...
by Lucille Turner | Jul 21, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I, II AND III HERE SLXLM Around the same time that Pythagoras was reflecting on the impossibility of irrational numbers and the apparently numerical nature of eternity, across the Aegean Sea in the city of Athens other ideas were taking shape....
by Lucille Turner | Jul 14, 2017 | History and Fiction
READ PARTS I AND II HERE Of all the thinkers, mathematicians, geometers and physicians among the Ancient Greek line-up of astonishing mortal men, among the most famous is Pythagoras. As a cultural export, his mathematical theories have outlived him by well over two...
by Lucille Turner | Jul 5, 2017 | Philosophy
There was once a city called Miletus, which flourished in the sixth century BC. One of its citizens was a man called Thales, a businessman with a head for philosophy. Thales could be called one of the first true Greek scientists because he made a very simple claim,...
