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 | Apr 6, 2016 | Art, Science
The world finds polymaths worrying. Those who are good at everything are usually bullied, toppled from their pedestals, and criticised. Look at Socrates, Aristotle and Newton. All were criticised, even persecuted at some point in their lives. Aristotle once said,...
